All the boys unite in laughter while Piggy cleans his glasses in embarrassment and shame. Later during the first meeting, Jack calls him ‘Fatty’ but Ralph interrupts with a shout: ‘His real name’s Piggy!’ (23). Piggy, in his desire for friendship, makes his first mistake on the island by revealing the name given to him from former tormenters. This makes Ralph ‘faintly interested’ and he asks Piggy for the nickname without requesting his actual name. Eventually he gives up hinting to Ralph to ask for his name and instead declares, ‘I don’t care what they call me … so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school’ (11). During his first meeting with Ralph, he ask Ralph his name, and is surprised when Ralph doesn’t ask for his. What is most interesting about Piggy is that we never find out his real name.
