Lord Of The Flies Simon Monologue Analysis

I don’t even know if I have the right to grieve over Simon’s passing. We didn’t actually hurt Simon, or at least, that’s what we keep telling ourselves and each other. Did we hurt Simon when we didn’t stop the other boys from assaulting him? Was it even our fault, especially if we couldn’t see him? Piggy said that Simon should not have been lying low in the bushes. He said that Simon should not have been crawling out of the dark. But shouldn’t we have paid more attention to what, or who, it was? Everyone is on edge because of the “beast”, but does that give us an excuse to annihilate everything we see as a peril? Simon was screaming something about a man. He could have meant that someone was here to rescue us. All of this time we’ve thought