In this passage, the reader learns that piggy wants to fit in and the reasons that he doesn’t. In the first portion of the passage, Piggy comes up with the idea to make sundials. Ralph shoots down Piggy’s idea and contemplates him as dull as himself and the rest of the group does. This is demonstrated in the quote “Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar, and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull” (65). Piggy has good ideas but because he is an outsider he immediately gets shot down or ignored. Piggy is a smart and outspoken kid however he is very set apart and this is put in the forefront by the quote “Piggy was an outsider… by fat, and ass-mar, and specs” (65). In this passage, we discover Piggy’s desire to befriend Ralph and craving of his
