If Only They’d Listened to Piggy Throughout the novel Piggy’s character is used to represent the intellectual side of man and act almost like an adult figure to the boys. There are many things that he does and that Golding says to support this. Three things come to mind that represent his place in the novel; he is a clear thinker, his appearance, and his symbolic losses throughout the book. Right off the beginning we see evidence of Piggy’s thinking ability. He realizes the boys’ situation and is thinking about how they are going to survive. He says "We got to find the others, we got to do something." We then see indication of his intelligence, he says, "A conch…he used to blow it… he kind of spat… you blew from down here." Only a bright person would know the name of a rare shell and how to blow it to make a noise. Further on at the end o....

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