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Lord Of The Flies Piggy's Death
Lost and Lord of the Flies are two stories about how a plane crash leads to people stranded on a deserted island. In both stories some people died while on the island. In Lost, Mars died. But in Lord of the Flies Simon and Piggy die. In this essay there will be evidence of who was murdered or if it was just an accident. There will also be details to find who was guilty and who was innocent. Under these circumstances, Piggy and Simon were murdered, but Mar’s made his choice to end his life as a request.
After Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, Mars found a large piece of shrapnel lodged in his abdomen. Jack Shephard was the only one who could treat him. He took the responsibility of trying to save his life. Jack
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The other wouldn’t listen to him and kept ignoring him. Roger took a small stone stone and flung it between the twin, missing on purpose. A source of power started to take place in Roger’s body. Below him, Ralph and Piggy were there standing. There was silence now as the tribe was curious what he had to say. Piggy was there holding the conch as Roger high above, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever. Ralph was able to get out of the way at the last second but the rock struck Piggy from chin to knee. Piggy fell forty feet and landed across the square red rock in the sea. The sea breathed again taking the dead body of Piggy. Roger was the one responsible for Piggy’s murder as he was growing hatred toward Ralph and Piggy.
In conclusion, the death of Marshall Mars was not murder but a request to Kate to take him out of his misery after seeing he was going to die a painful death. Simon’s death was murder due to Jack and Roger starting the mob to attack Simon. All of the boys had been involved but Jack and Roger were mostly responsible. Piggy’s death was Roger’s fault when he let the rock fall as an attempt to kill Ralph and Piggy. The boys were innocent but Roger is the one who was

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