I believe that Golding uses death as an undertone to nearly everything in this book as the book seems to revolve around it, and nearly everyone witness’ or is involved in it some way eventually. This is shown in three different Major examples, the killing of the sow, Simon’s death and Piggy’s death.
Golding represents death as an undertone in society, we can tell this because of the first official death in the book, the killing of the sow, in this section of the book, “Sweat and noise and blood and terror,” the word terror could mean that they are not yet used to this idea of taking another living things life, which later in the book they get used to. The word