Foreshadowing In Piggy

The Kids From Yesterday Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be stranded on an island? In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, this happens to a group of boys. The boys were being evacuated from the war in the early 1930s, only to find themselves stranded on an island in the Pacific and struggling for survival. Without any adults, they continue to fight for power and to keep their sanity. Throughout the novel, Golding hints at the horrors soon to arise, including Piggy’s death, Simon’s death, and the boys transforming into savages. One of the first events that is foreshadowed in the novel is Piggy’s death. Piggy is the weakest character on the island. He has health problems including: his weight, bad eyesight, and “ass-mar”. He is “the voice of reason” on the island, yet no one listens to him, except Ralph. One scene that foreshadows Piggy’s death is when Roger is throwing the stones at Henry. “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss.”(62) Roger missing shows that he is still has some civility inside him.
He is disrespected and ignored by the other boys, even though he is one of the most wise, logical, and intellectual boys on the island. When Jack proves his savagery and how oppressive he can be by killing the sow and placing its head on a stick, Simon wants to prove that the beast does not exist, so he sets off to prove that the beast is nothing. In his efforts of coming back and telling the group that there is no beast, he is mistaken as the beast and brutally killed. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”(152) At this point the boys are rapidly losing their