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Lord of the Flies: Chapter 11

Piggy's speech about standing up: What's right and what's wrong. Piggy is finally taking a stand as his glasses are stolen using the conch. Is it the right thing to do for Jack to give back Piggy? yes generally in reality to give back something you've stolen. Piggy is changing throughout, comparing Ralph's and Piggy's reaction. Piggy being lead to the fruit suggests he's helpless and even if he wants to stand up he can't.

connection: Piggy -> Pig's being hunted at Piggy's death, he is compared to a pig. Once Piggy starts to speak and the boys start listening to him, he dies. Piggy dies with the conch. As the conch as died, democracy dies. Simon's death was more graphic but Piggy's death has more impact.

At first Jack was entirely alone and now Ralph is completely alone, abandoned by everybody. Now Ralph is running away. Jack has the power now makes him more evil. As he has power, he can do anything he wants (the worst that he can do) because nobody can stop him. "If we knew there weren't any consequences then we would be savages."

**ESSAY TOPIC:** How has Piggy's actions influenced how the boys live with each other?  Points to be included in my essay:
 * How Ralph realizes that Piggy has reasonable ideas influence how Ralph leads the group of boys
 * Piggy's helplessness influence how the boys work together as he may pull them behind
 * How Piggy tries to speak up but Jack just ignores him and picks on him, so the other boys think that its alright to take advantage of Piggy.
 * Piggy may be the reason why the boys split up. Also he may be the reason why some of the boys are still civilized as he convinces Ralph, Sameneric and Simon that there is still a way to make the smoke.

Final changes for essay topic: **ESSAY TOPIC:** How has Piggy's influence on Ralph increased throughout the novel?
 * No influence on Ralph at all. When Ralph and Piggy first meet, chapter 1: Ralph just betrays Piggy by telling all the boys to call him Piggy even if Piggy doesn't want to be called Piggy; modeling to the boys that its alright to take advantage of Piggy.
 * The boys as one tribe together (starts to realize): When Piggy doesn't think that the fire is a smart idea. (chapter 2) Ralph first doesn't listen to Piggy's "silly" ideas but soon realizes that Piggy's ideas are reasonable. (chapter 5: Ralph is envious of Piggy for having brains)
 * The boys as two parted tribes (Ralph is lost with Piggy): Piggy influences Ralph to continue the role as the chief and as Ralph starts to listen to Piggy, the rest start to agree (chapter 8: Piggy proves to them that they can still have a signal fire.)
 * Ralph acknowledges Piggy's advice and misses it: At the end (chapter 12) when Ralph cries about Piggy and Piggy is described as a "true, wise friend".


 * __Character focus:__** **Piggy**
 * __Essay Topic:__** **What is Piggy’s influence on Ralph and how has it increased throughout the novel?**

Piggy significantly influences each character in Lord of the Flies//( TRUE, BUT YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER IDENTIFYING RALPH AS THE FOCUS OF YOUR ESSAY IN THE FIRST SENTENCE - THIS SENTENCE IS A LITTLE TOO GENERAL. COULD YOU COMBINE IT WITH THE SECOND: While Piggy influences each of the characters in William Golding's __Lord of the Flies__, he makes the greatest impact on Ralph, the elected leaders of the boys//. From start to end, Piggy’s part in Ralph’s decisions grows from no influence at all to Ralph being lost without the guidance of Piggy’s //“brains” (ch5)//. Different scenes from the novel provide evidence for this. In particular the scenes where Ralph didn’t listen to Piggy about the fire on the mountain (chapter two), where Ralph realizes and envies Piggy’s brains (chapter five) and where Piggy proved that there can still be a signal fire (chapter eight). Analysis from these scenes will suggest that Piggy’s influence on Ralph increases.

Early in the novel, Piggy’s influence on Ralph is very low compared to the end of the novel. For instance when Piggy and Ralph first meet in chapter one, Piggy stresses //“I don’t care what the call me…So long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school…They used to call me “Piggy””(ch1)// However Ralph makes no effort to prevent the others from using this embarrassing nickname. In fact,it is Ralph who tells the rest of the boys //“his real name is Piggy”(ch1). This suggests// that Piggy does not (PRESENT TENSE/ AVOID CONTRACTIONS)have much influence over Ralph as he ignores Piggy's wishes, betraying him in a sense.(LIZZY, I CHANGED THE SENTENCES ABOVE TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT I MEANT ABOUT THE NECESSARY WORDING CHANGES - SEE IF YOU CAN MAKE SIMILAR CHANGES TO THE REST OF THE TEXT) Also most of Piggy’s suggestions are ignored even though they are the most mature. For example in chapter two when all the boys climbed up to the mountain to make the signal fire, Piggy described the boys //“acting like a crowd of kids”(ch2)// but //“Ralph looked at him doubtfully…”(ch2)// implying that Ralph just ignored what Piggy said and followed the rest of the boys overlooking the other things that should have been prioritized. Piggy who uses //“kids”// to describe them helps portray that Piggy has more mature thoughts as he describes them younger than himself even though they’re the same age. Since Piggy is assumed to be the symbol of intellectuality and intelligence, it can suggest why at the beginning of the novel, careless acts are made since Piggy has little influence on Ralph’s decisions. Such as the scene on the mountain when the boys light the signal fire, Piggy, who thinks that other things like shelter should have been dealt with before the signal fire, says //“And that’s not all. Them kids. The little’uns. Who took any notice of them? Who knows how many we got?”(ch2)// This suggests that Piggy is being reasonable and thinks about the more important things like keeping track of the bodies on the island. Nobody listened to him and a littlun died which provides evidence that Piggy – the symbol of intelligence – had little influence on Ralph and therefore careless situations occurred. Although Piggy had little influence on Ralph in the early chapters, he still had some impact on Ralph. For example Piggy may’ve been the reason why Ralph was voted leader because Piggy was the one who made Ralph blow the conch which therefore influenced the rest of the boys to vote for Ralph. Influences like this, the impacts from Piggy on Ralph’s role as a leader, develops throughout the rest of the novel when Ralph soon realizes that Piggy is clever.

As the novel progresses, Piggy’s influence on Ralph develops (INCREASES) as Ralph realizes that Piggy is intelligent. This is quite evident throughout the book; chapter five clearly identifies Ralph’s realization on Piggy’s intelligence. //“Piggy could think. He could go step by step inside that fat head of his, only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, has brains.”// //(ch5)// clearly identifies that Ralph recognizes Piggy’s //“brains”//. Again, Piggy is assumed to be intelligent and at this point in the book when Ralph realizes Piggy’s //“brains”// he also thinks //“this meeting must not be fun, but business” (ch5)// which shows the realization of business and rule following. This suggests that as Piggy’s influence on Ralph increases, Ralph’s thoughts become more reasonable which shows that as Ralph begins to realize Piggy’s maturity and intelligence; he also begins to make smarter, more reasonable decisions. However, even though Ralph confronts these needs for a more civilized living space, Ralph begins to become more like Piggy as the boys start to ignore and argue against what Ralph has to say. For example during the meeting of //“business”//, the boys for the first time as a group argue with Ralph, the chief numerously, such as when Ralph says that there should be only one fire which will be on the mountain, //“There was a row immediately. Boys stood up and shouted…” (ch5)//. This is one factor why later in the novel, Ralph wants to leave role as chief but Piggy persuades Ralph to be better than this. This is where Piggy’s influence on Ralph is at its peak.

//Good points. Structure is effective. Try using smaller quotes. You are definitely on the right track. Your next focus will be on making some small adjustments to wording and sentence style. If you go into history you can actually see the highlighted changes. The goal is to make the sentences shorter and more direct and use language that it is more precise.//