Is Piggy Admirable

Words: 371
Pages: 2

In the article “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, the author explains one of the main characters named Piggy. Piggy is a really good young man, but mostly everyone would bully him because he was overweight for his age. Piggy was of the many plane crash survivors. In the beginning of the book he meets a young man named Ralph. Ralph was a very nice boy, he was also nice to piggy even though nobody likes him. Was Piggy an admirable character? “You talk too much… shut up Fatty” (Golding 21). Jack is also one of the main characters in this novel. This is Jack telling him to stop talking and insulting him by calling him a fatboy. No one admires Piggy because he is fat and does not really help on the island. Jack and many of the others kids