On the first page Golding gives a sense of Piggy's athleticism when he says "' I cant hardly move with all these creeper things.'" This suggests that Piggy is slightly awkward to move around. This helps the reader understand his personality as well. The reader can understand that Piggy may also be an awkward person to be around. The reason for Golding for making piggy an awkward person is to create minor conflict between him and characters that find him annoying.
Golding only uses three colors on the first page. He uses gray, red, and yellow. This could be foreshadowing for the fire which is a symbol throughout the book, red and yellow for flames and gray for the ashes. He could be doing this to show that the grey school sweatshirt, symbolizing school and civilization, has been burnt to ashes.
You did a nice job in your first paragraph of pushing the "why" question and arriving at an element of conflict. You also make an interesting connection between the sweatshirt/civilization and fire.
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