The first book to hit me like a bolt of lightning was William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," which was assigned ... No. I was clearly Piggy: chubby, unpopular, prophetic, possibly too real and ...

I was in the middle of leading a class of 10th-grade English students through Piggy’s death scene in Lord of the Flies: the rock, the shattered conch, Piggy’s long fall, the red stuff flowing ...

That's right: it's the plot of Lord of the Flies, a novel about a group of ... that splits the group and leads, finally, to Piggy's death at the hands of Jack's tribe. If Piggy is "progress ...

Although all the boys are involved in Simon’s death, it is Roger alone who murders Piggy. How is Roger like this? Roger is often to be found watching events or listening to the discussions in ...