LOTF - Chapter Eleven

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 11 - Castle Rock

Question Answers

1. Piggy tells Ralph to blow the conch and later he tells the littluns at the meeting that his glasses were stolen.

2. Piggy says he will tell Jack to give back his glasses because "what's right is right". He also wants to bring the conch not only to show Jacks group what he doesn't have, but also as a talisman against them.

3. Ralph wants their appearance to be clean and neat like they were before the plane crash.

4. Roger is positioned to be the look-out so he challenges the boys when they approach Castle Rock.

5. Jack had been hunting and when he appeared he had a pig behind him.

6. Ralph calls Jack a thief, which then provokes the fight.

7. After the cessation in the fight, Jack tells the savages to tie them up.

8. Roger, who is on top of Castle Rock, is throwing rocks down at Piggy and, unlike before, he is purposefully trying to hit Piggy.



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Piggy's Murder

In Chapter 11 Piggy was brutally murdered, and I believe that Roger is to blame for his death. William Golding says that, "The intention of a charge was forming among them". When this was happening below, Roger was above them with the rock in his possession and he chose to release the boulder because he felt left out from the group. After that William Golding says that, "Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all of his weight on the lever." The lever triggered the boulder to fall and hit Piggy. This proves that Roger decided to release the rock onto Piggy, therefore killing him. Although Jack says that he himself meant to do that, Roger was really the one who compromised to lean on the lever which set the rock in motion and hit Piggy. To conclude my point about who really cause the murder of Piggy, I say, once again, that it was Roger's fault. Roger truculently decided to release the rock witch killed Piggy. He was controlled by savagery but he also was acting on pure human nature because the rock was also triggered because Roger felt left out from the group.