Companion

Piggy to Ralph

Piggy and Ralph share an interesting relationship. Piggy definitely takes the sidekick role, looking up to and admiring the chief. It’s obvious he simply wants to be accepted, wanted, needed, and loved. The ironic part is that Piggy really is needed, desperately, not only by Ralph but by all the other boys as well. He’s needed for his glasses, for his thinking, for his voice of reason. While Ralph hesitates to admit this to everyone else, he grows closer with Piggy and weeps for him at the end not as a sidekick, not as a lackey, but as a “true, wise friend.”