In Lord of the Flies , Piggy dies when Roger dislodges a boulder from high above, which strikes Piggy from "chin to knee" and knocks him off a cliff onto the rocks below
. Piggy and Ralph go to Jack's camp to appeal to reason and retrieve Piggy's glasses, but Roger sends the boulder down, killing Piggy and shattering the conch shell he is holding
. Piggy falls forty feet and lands on his back on a red rock in the sea, and his head breaks open
. The ocean then washes his body away
. Piggy's death symbolizes a break from civil unity and the descent into savagery, representing the death of innocence
. His death and the shattering of the conch symbolize the end of civility and order on the island
