On the first page of the novel, William Golding makes the two major protagonists in the book, Piggy and Ralph, meet. By doing this, he introduces the plot, stating that two or more young boys are in this place without a way out, and their dialogue helps to explain the setting to us at the very end of the page. This makes the reader feel as if the scene were appearing right in front of them as the characters discover it, possibly trying to round up sympathy towards the two characters as soon as possible, since, besides Simon, these two are who suffer the most in the end.
Another decision William Golding makes on the first page is that when Ralph's socks were caught on something near the crash site when after he first spots Piggy, he swiftly bends down and pulls them off of whatever they were caught on. This hints to the reader early on that Ralph will be a very intuitive character, often quickly adjusting to his surroundings. This also foreshadows the fact that Ralph will very quickly become a leader among the boys, and will be one of the few that stick to their senses and try to get them rescued.
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