It is quite evident that Piggy represented the epitome of an intelligent, yet meek, person who posed no physical threat to the hunters' leader, Jack, or the rest of the hunters. At the time of his murder, for it was indeed murder, his glasses had been stolen and he was virtually blind. Add to these facts the limitations of his being an asthma sufferer and more than a little overweight and it is easy to see that the hunters had no reason to fear him. One can only conclude that it was "the darkness in man's heart" that would have overcome Roger and filled him with the urge to dislodge the boulder that came crashing down and sent Piggy to his watery grave.
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