The Pig In Lord Of The Flies

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The Pig

In The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, there is one thing that evolves throughout the story from something they want to something they want to get rid of. The pig starts out as something that Jack wants to hunt, turns into something he uses to become chief, and ends as a symbol of fear. It also becomes the cause of two deaths throughout the whole story as well. In the beginning when Jack had seen the pig he wanted to kill it for food, but it quickly started to annoy Ralph and that's when conflict begins. There first fight was about the pig and it continued to get bigger: “I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!” (Golding 54). It soon turned into the conflict of the ship,”His voice was loud and savage, and struck them into silence. ‘ there was a ship’”(Golding 70). Because Jack wanted to hunt the pig so badly he took his hunters away from the fire and it went out as a ship came by. So because of the want for the pig, they didn't get rescued as soon as they could have been.
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They went that way, the same way as [Jack] went himself”(Golding 131). This was most of the boys leaving Ralph to join Jack, because he made them think that hunting the pig was the best thing they could do. As if, event then the pig represent fear and Jack was showing them to get rid of it. The pig began to become as more fear when Simon was talking to the pig's head. The conversation can mean many different things, it could be Simon warning himself about the other boys, it could be the pig representing all of Simon's fears by pointing them out, or it could be