Argumentative Essay On Lord Of The Flies

Simon, one of the major characters in the story, is set as the allusion of Jesus. Christ always had an affinity with children; in Ch. 4, he shows his way with the ‘littluns’ by picking fruit for them. This shows his goodness by nature. Also, like Christ, he saw the atavistic problem of the hunters and tried to bring them back to good. As in the bible, Simon, like Christ, dies

Simon shows his individuality and cravings for tranquility and cognizance also through his participation with others. One instance when he truly displays this is when he was picking fruit from the “littluns”. The “littluns” and “lugged them towards the trees” and “Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach” (Golding,56). He feeds them alone and “when he had satisfied them”he “turned away from them and went where the just perceptible path led him” (Golding,56). This shows how through his clarity with nature and himself, he helps others and continues to portray that he prefers to think, act, and help others by himself. He also shows his individualism when he reacted to the death of the pig. With the chaos going around him, Simon isolates himself and “lowered his head, carefully keeping his eyes shut, then sheltered them with his hands” next to the pile of guts Jack and Roger left after penetrating the pig’s head with a stick (Golding,138). He ignores everything around him and tries his best to hide away from the monstrous actions the other boys are committing. This also supports the idea that he favors time alone in his own thoughts in peace rather than facing his fear. In

Simon walks to a place he knows in the jungle, a clearing that fascinates him. He makes sure that no one accompanies him because he considers this a sacred place where he can be at peace with himself and nature. “He came at last, to a place where more sunshine fell… The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light… Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in the hot air” (56). The area is overflowing with nature’s beauty, such as flowers, butterflies, and birds. This portrayal of Simon’s place reveals an innate sense of peace and comfort within the island. Although this spot is appealing to Simon, the rest of the boys fail to realize the value of it, resulting in its eventual demise. Eventually, Simon makes his way back to his sacred spot, however by this time conditions on the island are slowly changing. “Beyond the screen of leaves the sunlight pelted down and the butterflies danced in the middle their unending dance. He knelt down and the arrow of sun fell on him. That other time the air seemed to vibrate with heat; but now it threatened” (132). Instead of welcoming Simon as usual, the heat was foreboding and uncomforting. The heat is described as “threatening” exposing the impending danger to the peace however the butterflies continue to

Simon attempts to comfort Ralph by ensuring him that he will eventually return back to home. Apparently, he cannot guarantee such a thing or give a precise date to Ralph, but, as one of the most matured boys on the island, and based on his intelligent to read the signs around him, realizes that Ralph is losing his hope and soon will end up like Jack. Thus, tries to encourage and motivate him, to look forward to the day of rescue. Also, in the novel, Simon, is considering a religious figure, more like an angel, who can predict the future. He is always there for Ralph, supporting him and providing the necessary information he needs in order to keep going with the life on the island.

Throughout the story, Simon gave a variety of advice that did not seem important at the moment, but turned out to be substantial as time went by. Simon

Simon had awoken from sleep after his encounter with the Lord of the Flies then wanders off towards the beast on the mountain without any hesitation. He walks straight into a beautiful place that unveils a safe clearing. Here, the setting shows the snakes were not often in large quantity and there was a column of light that came from the sky after all the dark clouds. It was not full of trees but a few dispersed around. Simon was out of the forest for once, but he goes straight back into the dangerous jungle.

Simon gets fruit for the littluns who can’t reach it by themselves, another kind act only meant to help another. “He [Piggy] went crouching and feeling over the rocks but Simon, who got there first, found them for him” (71). When Jack hits Piggy and he loses his glasses, Simon is the one that picks them up for him. Simon knows that Piggy gets picked on and is disliked among most of the members of the tribe, but he helps him out anyways. Simon’s angelic nature is topped off with the fact that he has seizures.

He is a very caring and compassionate character, in contrast to other characters in the novel. Paralleling another very famous, and divine person in history, Simon proves he is angelic in nature by mirroring Jesus Christ in many ways. Lastly, when all have chosen the path of lawless, animalistic instincts, Simon is the endmost character

Back at school, Jack and I were friends. We had every class together and were always dealing with the same things at the same time. We were always together, but that seemed to end when we crashed into the island. The smell of smoke arose into the air making it difficult to breath. Carefully making my way out from underneath all the debris I stood up. Walking a couple paces from the plane i turned and looked at what used to be a plane. Looking around at the crash sight I searched for my friends; including Jack and Nathan. After making a couple of rounds around the plane to see if anyone needed help, I wandered around to search for survivors. After finding a group of two boys, named Piggy and Ralph, I wondered if this was all that made it. A

Simon embodies harmony and nurturing of the natural environment. He is known for taking nature walks to clear his head. He wasn't quite like Ralph who's goal was to domesticate nature, he simply enjoyed being in it. This becomes apparent on page 55, "He had stood frowning down at a pile of sand on the beach where somebody had been trying to build a little house or hut. Then he turned his back on this and walked into the forest with an air of purpose." Simon simply finds harmony with the natural

He seems to be the only one that really recognizes what is going on on the island. This ultimately leads to the loss of innocence on the island. In chapter three, we are given a bit of insight into Simon’s head. He escapes to a sanctuary in the middle of the forest where he can think and watch the nature around him. When Simon first comes here “a pair of gaudy butterflies danced around each other in the hot air” (Golding 57), and “the deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood” (57).

Simon was a simple man, he did not expect much out of life and his life lived up to the expectation. He had an average wife and two relatively ordinary children. They had a turtle and we all know how exciting those can be. They live in an average house in a small neighborhood and nothing ever happened there either.

The beast or his inner evil has temporarily taken over Simon’s mind in this part of the novel and unlike the other characters,

Simon was a very thin boy with stocks of long black hair and a tendency to be overheated easily. Simon often runs of to his own place nobody else knows about on the island. After the sow is killed Simon faces the beast in his head that goes by the Lord of the Flies. Simon is killed in a “dance,” that the savages performed. He is killed after e finds out the truth about what they really sall on the mountain.

Simon primarily is isolated from all that is occurring on the island. He portrays himself as one of the sane boys considering the rest had exposed savage like demeanor from remaining on the island for an extended amount of time. “ Simon paused. He looked over his shoulder as Jack had done at the close ways behind him and glanced swiftly round to confirm