Fruit In Lord Of The Flies

Jack and his chosen group of hunters all follow Jack and fail to follow Ralph’s command to keep civilization under control. Simon and his natural behaviors contrast with Jack as he sees the positive interests and goodness in civilization. Simon’s actions reveal his shy, yet kind, and non confrontational attitude which makes the importance of his character hard to notice. Simon is the mediator on the island, as he will never decline a request from the little children for food, an order from Ralph to help build shelters, and tries to keep the peace between the hunters and the civilized boys. Simon can be seen as the most compassionate character on the island as displayed in this quote: “Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy, wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it. The twins giggled and Simon lowered his face in shame” (Golding 74). Jack, on the other hand, is most malicious towards Piggy as he eventually becomes consumed by evil and and will attempt to destroy all points of civilization and innocence left on the island. Innocence is bestowed upon nearly all the boys trying to keep civilization alive on the island and is despised by Jack and his highly influenced choir boys turned hunters.

Simon never had a problem helping anyone or making them happy. Simon was helping the littleuns when nobody else would,”...Simon found for them the fruit they couldn’t reach, pulled off the choicest from up the foliage…”(Golding 56). In this it shows how Simon was helping the littleuns even though ever thought of them as weight on their backs. This could be compared to Jesus how he helps people like giving a blind man vision again. Simon also saved a littleun when he was stuck in the circle but they made the group switch to attacking Simon. This is like when Jesus was crucified and died for our sins. One more example is that he was the only one who helped Piggy, like get his glasses after Jack knocked them off. Another thing Simon did was meditate to remain peaceful in between all the chaos around him. To add, he tried to warn them that the beast was not real which could have kept the kids more peaceful and not scared of the beast. This is like Jesus because he tries to keep peace in the world. As shown, Simon doesn’t care about your age or how you look, he just helps people because that is what he wants to do like Jesus.

Simon is the one boy who never participates in destructive behaviors and always contributes to the well being of the boys. He continues to work even after everyone stops, gives Piggy food when no one else will, and speaks his mind about the beast. He is also the only one to realize that the true beast is inside the boys. Simon’s moral compass, much like the superego, allows him to see the evil of mankind. Simon is whole-heartedly good. The superego attempts to lead a person to the morally right pathway, much like Simon aims to show Ralph how he can do what’s best for the tribe. The primitive nature of the others overpowers Simon’s internal good nature. Even after his death, Simon’s moral nature lives on through the boys similar to how the superego can continue to shine after a person follows the desires of the id.

Simon alone helps Ralph build shelter for everybody while the other boys go and play or hunt. “’ All day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else. They’re off bathing, or eating, or playing’”. When Jack breaks piggy’s glasses Simon finds them and hands the glasses to him.

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

He helped that way” (pg.42). Simon tries to diffuse the situation because Jack is being mean and he wants everybody to be calm and nice to one another. Later in chapter 4 it says, “Simon found for them the fruit

Simon is a character who is a major significance in Lord of the Flies. Simon is one of the boys stranded on the island after his plane crashed. Additionally, Simon is a member of the choir. As part of the choir, he is under the leadership of Jack. Simon is described as “...a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse.” (24) He is also prone to fainting. For instance, shortly after the plane crashes, Simon faints in front of all of the other boys. Simon is an important character in the novel.

In the beginning, Simon likes Ralph very much. He always accompanies and helps him with work for example watching the fire, building the shelters, carrying the messages and in many more ways. When Ralph, Simon, Jack, and Roger go to the mountaintop for pig hunting, Ralph remembers about his old life of warm food, proper grooming, and children’s books. As Simon watches him, he estimates that Ralph is thinking about his old life and rescue from this island just as everyone else. He sits beside him and tells him, “You’ll get back to where you came from … For a moment nothing more was said. And then they suddenly smiled at each other.” [Page: 121] His prophecy leaves a foreshadowing of the deaths of himself and everyone else’s except Ralph’s. He

The idealist is often trying to help others, as well as the world, enhancing it in any way they can, as stated by the personality test. Simon displays this need to help others through many of his actions within the book, “as Simon thought this…the beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. He started down the mountain and his legs give beneath him (Lowry 147).” In this passage, Simon is hurt yet he wants to help resume order amongst the boys, by eliminating the fear that controls them, which show he has a vision for a better world. "Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands (Lowry 56).” Similarly, Simon also is the only one that

     Simon was made fun of by the other kids because of how he acted and the things he said. One such ocassion was when he was talking to Ralph and said, "You'll get back to where you came from" to which Ralph replied a few lines later, "You're batty." (Page 111) Simon here has a prophecy about Ralph, and was

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a plane escaping Britain in the midst of the next World War crash lands on a desert island. The surviving group of schoolboys begins to fend for themselves without adult supervision. Immediately, a boy named Ralph rises as the leader when he gathers the children with a conch shell. The other children draw toward his charisma and mature age. However, not everyone agrees with this institution of leadership, namely Jack Merridew. The island corrupts as Jack gains a foothold of power. Because of this corruption, two children--Simon and Piggy--die. Throughout this story, these crises are blamed on man’s inner evil prevailing with a lack of civilization and become evident through Jack’s interactions with Ralph,

He help the littluns to get fruit, and 'pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands'. He also helps Piggy to get his glasses back when Jack has knocked them off, showing that he does not discriminate against Piggy because he is different but chooses to help him, even if this may cause him to suffer in the future. These may indicate that Simon, though other characters may be thought of as "good" and kind, such as Piggy or Ralph, Simon shows no flaws at all.

Nature clearly plays a significant role in the presentation of many themes in Lord of the Flies. The story itself is set on an uninhabited island that has plenty of food and water as well as beautiful scenery. At first, the characters' situation appears to be an opportunity to have fun and indulge themselves in survival make-believe games until they are rescued. The false impression the island gives is demonstrated when Ralph gives one of his first meetings as the leader: “‘But this is a good island...there’s food and drink, and-’ ‘rocks-’ ‘blue flowers’”(Golding 34). The boys assume that they will have fun on the island simply because of its attractive outward appearance, which, especially in the day, exemplifies pleasure and hope.

Simon is a bit younger than Jack and Ralph, but he is still a biggun. He represents pure goodness, and he is seen as a "Christ" figure. He has a positive outlook of being trapped

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.