... in exhaustion, then he "wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." (p. 225) Therefore without Piggy's sense of reality or civilization by his reference to the outside world, deep concern for the conch or political order, and that all order is lost when he is killed, this book would not have a very valid point or purpose ... function without Piggy because the theme would become so distorted that the reader would not be able to relate to point that Golding is trying to demonstrate. Without civilization i...

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