Proof, if any were needed, that the obesity crisis is a grave health issue.
Here we see the consequences of being overweight. Not only are you vulnerable to psychopaths levering massive rocks down at you, but you don't even get a decent death scene.
The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch
exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy,
saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air
sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. The rock bounded
twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his
back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff
came out and turned red. Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a
pig’s after it has been killed. Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow
sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went,
sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone."twitched a bit"?
"stuff came out"?
"like a pig's after it has been killed"?
"no time for even a grunt"?
Where is the dignity? The sense of a life lost? The utter senseless waste? The deep tragedy of the death of civilisation?
No - "stuff came out".
Piggy's death is made comical by the shape and bearing of his bloated body. Had Piggy been slim, like Simon, there'd have been real emotion in his death.
My students yesterday laughed at the death of Piggy.
Laughed.Kids - don't eat that pie. It's not worth it -
Do you want a comical death?
