The Simon’s Admiration of Nature Through His Point of View in the Lord of the Flies

INTRODUCTION Lord of The Flies is a novel which is written by William Golding. The plot of the novel is focused on a group of English boys who are stranded in a deserted island after their plane’s get crashed during the flight. The setting was took during the World War II and in a deserted island which no grownups live there, even the pilot of their plane’s, the dark forest which the younger kids or littluns in their groups scary about and a beautiful beach where they build their shelter and wait for help. The story is about the civilization that they make to maintain the rules which they make and about the changing of the characters to become savage and barbaric. There are some major characters in this novel, Ralph whom symbolized as civilization through his part as a chief of the pack, Ralph whom symbolized as barbarism through his brutality of his actions and behavior along with his group of choir, Piggy whom symbolized as the democratic system through his actions and statements to maintain the civilization which they have built in the beginning, even before he meet his death and Simon whom symbolized as a spiritual side of nature through his actions and death. This paper will analyze the Simon’s admiration of nature through his point of view in The Lord of The Flies novel. The writer will discuss about Simon’s admiration of the nature though his point of view from the beginning when Simon met Ralph at the first time at the beach until his tragic death, when the other boys murder him savagely because they think that he is the beast. This paper has four sections. The paper consist of introduction, followed by the theoretical background which support this paper, the analysis of the novel to prove the theories and the topic are related each other and finally the conclusion of this paper. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1. Theories of Characters In a novel, things happen because the people have certain personalities or

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