Simon's Involuntary Trip to Paradise

The wind chime hung from the roof of the abandoned house , it swayed calmly and slowly against the wind , everything seemed peaceful . We - my father and I - sat on the porch of the rundown house that only we knew about . It was dark and I wasn’t the biggest fan of the night , the night is unpredictable but yet so beautiful .

Sarah loved her brother dearly. He was in her mind and thoughts most hours of every day. She so desperately wanted to get back to the apartment where that she could find him alive. She was only too late. His body reeked and had a terrible stench. Edouard Tezac said, “There was this smell...The smell of something rotten, putrid. Then my father slowly

Now I want to tell you how Simon died, its a shame he had to die the way he did... you see there was this feast, now we thought he was there too, eating and having a grand time with us but what we did not realize was that he was the beast crawling from the forest. There was no beast that night, just him. Simon... He was stabbed and washed away in the tide.

In a quest for a sense of belonging and success in life as well as a need for survival and money from a steady job, Richard attempts to conform to the social rules of those around him and the expectations of how he must behave like a second-class citizen. To feel like a part of the community and to please his family in hopes of improving his home life, Richard begins to attend a Protestant church. He consents to become a member of the church and is baptized, but he does so to please his mother and because his need for association and acceptance with a group is immense. After the church service that night, Richard reflects, “I had not felt anything except a sullen anger and a crushing sense of shame. Yet I was somehow glad that I had got it over with; no barriers now stood between me and the community”. In addition to these expectations from his family and the black community he associated with,

I peered around through the rain, desperately searching for some shelter, I was drowning out here. The trouble was, I wasn’t in the best part of town, and in fact it was more than a little dodgy. I know this is my home turf but even I had to be careful. At least I seemed to be the only one out here on such an awful night. The rain was so powerfully loud I couldn’t hear should anyone try and creep up on me. I also couldn’t see very far with the rain so heavy and of course there were no street lights, they’d been broken long ago. The one place I knew I could safely enter was the church, so I dashed.

Simon, though he did not tell the other boys of his vision, was incapable of forgetting. He was the observant character, the quiet philosopher. He was often alone, sometimes by his own choice, and he liked to wander into the peaceful jungle. He sincerely cared about the other boys, sometimes helping the young ones to fetch fruit, yet "Simon turned away from them and went where the just perceptible path led him. Soon high jungle closed in" (56). He loved solitude and yet felt loneliness; he was alien to the other boys. The boys did not think anyone would be stupid enough to go into the jungle by night: "The assembly grinned at the thought of going out into the darkness. Then Simon stood up and Ralph looked at him in astonishment" (85). Many of the boys even thought he was "batty" because he left the group to spend time alone.  He did not fear the jungle, and he did not fear the Beast. "'Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast. . . . maybe it's only us'" (89).

“It is quite possible to reach God. In fact it is very easy, because it is the most natural thing in the world” (Spiritual Quotes to live by.com). Simon personifies this quote because he is on a different spectrum than the rest of the boys in the book Lord of the Flies. Simon is innately good unlike the other boys who need to be ashamed into being good. The author of the book, William Golding shows through Simon’s actions, words, thoughts, and what others think of him to convey how he is important to the moral health of the boy’s society but on the other hand he is an outcast.

When the church fell down, symbolically, it was Sargeant who fell. And when the Sargent got up and started walking, Christ was walking beside him. At this moment Sargent finds comfort, approval and company with Christ. Imagine roaming around a neighborhood with no one to talk to, no family, and no friends, and because of Christ's presence he is no loner anxious about when and where he is going to eat. Although this part of the story was based on a dream or

Simon symbolizes a Christ figure. When Simon states to Ralph “‘You’ll get back to where you came from,” this suggests that Simon had experienced a moment in which he predicts the future. This is similar to a Christ figure because a Christ figure has more awareness in which they can foresee what would happen in the future. Also, both are similar to each other

Simon, meanwhile, seems to exist outside the conflict between Ralph and Jack, between civilization and savagery. We see Simon’s kind and generous nature through his actions in this chapter. He helps Ralph build the huts when the other boys would rather play, indicating his helpfulness, discipline, and dedication to the common good. Simon helps the littluns reach a high branch of fruit, indicating his kindness and sympathy—a sharp contrast to many of the older boys, who would rather torment the littluns than help them. When Simon sits alone in the jungle glade marveling at the beauty of nature, we see that he feels a basic connection with the natural world. On the whole, Simon seems to have a basic goodness and kindness that comes from within

Self-indulgent Simon Exactly, why would the title be calling Simon “self-indulgent”? Not a lot of leader like qualities that are usually looked for in a leader are found in Simon. No disregard to the others; Simon is quite unique amongst them.

Then the night the cold wind came that chilled Annabelle and the laid her in a sepulcher the mood changes to dark and gloomy, because his most

I used this panel to show how Simon’s “times” were getting to him, using other parts of the text to help emphasize the enormity of what Simon is going through. From lines 25-27 we see that “Simon’s head wobbled. His eyes were half closed as though he were imitating the obscene thing on the stick.” I used this as reference material for how to go about drawing Simon. Line 27 continues to relate back to my drawing in the fifth panel. I drew a dark void around Simon to represent the sickly, dark and scary mood portrayed in the text as Simon gradually moves closer and closer to his breaking point before finally losing consciousness.”Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth.” Also relating to the void, “…a beacons that spread” I believe this

Through the help of these two characters, Anne’s life gets immersed in Christianity. Prayers and the love of Jesus form the pillars of her

The weeping child said in response, “Leave us alone!” as he ran away from him. I was done after that, tonight I told myself, tonight I would make my escape away from Cronus.