Who Is Simon In Lord Of The Flies
Lord of the Flies is a novel about British schoolboys stranded on an island by a plane crash. In the book some of the boys turn into savages, but some of them don't. Jack and Simon are very different characters, but they may have more in common one might think. Although Jack turns to a savage in the middle of the book, he doesn’t start out that way. Simon, on the other hand, never turns into a savage, but he does go a little crazy. They both start out the same, but they both change.
Simon is a nice and shy person who doesn’t like the idea of killing animals. Simon first appears in a robe as a choir boy under the rule of Jack. However, Simon sees the island and the beast differently from the others throughout the book. In the book the most of the boys think of the beast as a physical being which lives among them while Simon sees the beast as a dark spirit inside all of them, "'What I mean is... maybe it's only us.'(Golding 89)". He tells them about this because this is what's making them act like savages and he doesn’t like them killing innocent things, so he wants them to stop hurting innocent people/animals. He doesn’t help because this just makes them more savage and they kill him brutally.
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They are both proper English schoolboys in the beginning. When Ralph takes Jack and Simon to go search the island, they come across a pig stuck in some brush. Jack, at the sight of this, says he'll kill the pig and they can eat, but he doesn’t kill the pig because he is still too innocent and proper. In the beginning of the book neither Jack nor Simon are willing to kill animals or be savages. "'After all, we're not savages. We're English... So we've got to do the right things.' (Golding 42)" says Jack at the beginning of Lord of the Flies. Simon and Jack are just young choir boys who don’t want to loose their innocence in the beginning of the
Simon is a nice and shy person who doesn’t like the idea of killing animals. Simon first appears in a robe as a choir boy under the rule of Jack. However, Simon sees the island and the beast differently from the others throughout the book. In the book the most of the boys think of the beast as a physical being which lives among them while Simon sees the beast as a dark spirit inside all of them, "'What I mean is... maybe it's only us.'(Golding 89)". He tells them about this because this is what's making them act like savages and he doesn’t like them killing innocent things, so he wants them to stop hurting innocent people/animals. He doesn’t help because this just makes them more savage and they kill him brutally.
In Lord of the Flies Jack is the main "villain" who …show more content…
They are both proper English schoolboys in the beginning. When Ralph takes Jack and Simon to go search the island, they come across a pig stuck in some brush. Jack, at the sight of this, says he'll kill the pig and they can eat, but he doesn’t kill the pig because he is still too innocent and proper. In the beginning of the book neither Jack nor Simon are willing to kill animals or be savages. "'After all, we're not savages. We're English... So we've got to do the right things.' (Golding 42)" says Jack at the beginning of Lord of the Flies. Simon and Jack are just young choir boys who don’t want to loose their innocence in the beginning of the