... fact talks to the head, and in away tries to stand up to the evil on the island, although he is in the head very unsuccessful. He is brave enough, because he feels it must be found out, to go up the mountain on his own and find out what the "best" really is, and finds out the truth. When he staggers down the mountain in a rush, feeling that he must tell the group immediately, he ... is greeted by the group of over-excited ... boys, who have turned into savages. He rushes into the centre of the group and in this frenzy ... ...

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... not particularly happy, and the moment in which the officer encounters the boys is not one of untainted joy. The officer says that he is unable to understand how upstanding British lads could have acted with such poor form. Ironically, though, this "civilized" officer is himself part of an adult world in which violence and war go hand in hand with civilization ... possibly hide during the daytime. One of the littluns suggests that it hides in the sea-a proposition that terrifies the entire group. Not long after the meeting, some military planes engage in a battle high above the island. Th...

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... wants to go after it while Ralph wants to focus on the fire. Jack's belief in the beast tears him and Ralph even further apart, eventually ruining their friendship. In fact Simon is the only one who realizes the beast is not real, but he is too soft spoken to tell anyone and, after Ralph and Jack see the parachute man and decide not to go back up to the mountain Piggy ... says, "We got no fire on the mountain. But ... what's wrong with a fire down here?" The nonexistent beast forces the group to move the fire to a much less visible area threatening their already slim hopes of rescue. S...

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... the Lord of the Flies speaking to Simon as an evil figure clearly represents the biblical story of when Jesus meets the devil in the desert, and the devil tries to tempt Him. Simon is mainly interpreted as a Christ figure because of his ability to see through misconception, unlike the rest of the boys. For example, while everyone believed the beast was on top of the mountain, and everyone as afraid to go ... up there, it was Simon who discovered it was only a dead paratrooper. This knowledge ultimately caused his death, as seen in when he goes down to the rest of the boys to tell them...

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... ;' said Jack with simple arrogance, because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp."" (Golding 18) The first project by the boys on this island is to build a fire on top of the mountain. The fire accidentally spreads outside the fire-pit, leading to the burning of a considerable piece of the mountain. Piggy condemns the others for this, calling them "little kids." (Golding 45) He continues, "How can you expect to be ... 't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?" (Golding 156) Simon becomes beleaguered. Simon ...

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... after the boys discover the "beast", they all go to bizarre extents to kill it. Jack does not like all of Ralph's rules and decides to be on his own. Jack and Ralph are at odds with one another. He nonetheless considers his opinion of becoming the leader the most credible idea. A ship passes, and the hunters do not do their job of keeping the fire lit on the mountain ... be "generous", he invites Ralph and Piggy. The boys are celebrating and having a wonderful time with music and dance. Due to his hallucination and fainting, Simon wakes up and goes to the mountain where he discovers a d...

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... plane parachutes down from the sky. The man is already dead and the body and parachute float up to the island; the wind continually grabs the parachute, lifting the body up and down, which is seen by the fire tenders, terrified, they run to tell about this. Jack suggests they go hunt it and after returning, Jack calls an assembly by blowing the conch. He tells the group that the Beast is real; they ... have seen it. He invites others to ... on a stick, which is driven into the ground as a gift for the Beast. Jack and his gang raid Ralph's encampment that night and they steal a burning ...

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... they can't make a fire, Jack gets irritated that he can't always be the one to speak. "The counch doesn't count on top of the mountain so you shut up! (42)." Jack won't allow Piggy to talk, even if he has the counch, because he's upset. He changes the rules just so he can have it his way. Piggy questions why he doesn't get any meat to eat, so ... a fire. ""My! You've made a great heap, haven't you?" Jack pointed suddenly. "His specs - use them as burning glasses!" Piggy was surrounded before he could back away. "Here - let me go!" His voice rose to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched hi...

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... on top of the mountain. We must make a fire," he reminds them. They all agree to the necessity of keeping a fire, but things are easier said than done. The fledgling society seems to be running well. The children are happy and the jobs are being done. Ralph is leading them beautifully, but this can't last. A malignant influence starts to take hold, and the children refer it to as the Beast. The ... of the beast, which he calls the Lord of the Flies. In his dream, he speaks to it, and it says, "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part...

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... and lets everyone know that there is really a beast. He also calls Ralph a coward, and suggests that they remove him from his leadership position. The rest of the boys don't go for that, and because of this, Jack informs the group, "I"m not going to be a part of Ralph's lot - I"m going off by myself. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too" (p 127 ... to speak, Roger shoves a massive rock down the mountain slope, and it crushes Piggy. Jack then throws his spear at Ralph, but he manages to run off into the jungle. This has been yet another one of those savage outbursts, brought o...

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... shook." After Simon has confronted the beast he goes to the mountain, just like Moses, and learns the full truth about the beast; that it is only a dead pilot which all the other boys has made into something fearsome and evil. The irony of the book, and what also has happened a lot through history, is that Simon is killed when he returns to tell everybody about what he has learned ... understand him. Simon is also the prophet in the book. He foresee that Ralph will get back. "You'll get back to where you came from." Another thing is that Simon is the only who sees the real beauty in the...

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... in the Island. The dialogue sort of makes the head comes to life. The head tell him that there is no escaping him, for evil is within all human being. Also, the boys worshiped the head, so they were also worshiping evil. Simon faints because he is terribly horrified. In the movie version Simons encounter with the Lord of the Flies is quite dull. When Simon leaves the other boys to go ... version contains some difference in Simons finding and death. Simon crawls up to the mountain to see the monster and it is a dead pilot. When he realizes that there is no such thing as a monster (he doe...

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... evil idea, which was to tear down poor Mr. Thomas's house. Blackie did not want the power, but he was the one who had it. T. on the other hand, was out to get it for himself. ""He"ll tell you," Blackie said. It was the end of his leadership. He went away to the back of the car-park and began to kick a stone, dribbling in this way and that" (Greene ... for power lead to savagery. When Jack's want for power to be leader got great enough, he proclaimed that anyone who wanted to join him could on the other side of the mountain and that Ralph had nothing to offer them because he could not pr...

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... Piggy." "That was murder." "You stop that!" said Piggy shrilly. "What good"re you doing talking like that?" He jumped to his feet and stood over Ralph. " It was dark. There was that-that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared!" " I wasn't scared," said Ralph slowly, "I was-I don't ... person who is willing to give up his spare time to help Ralph build the huts. He is also the one who helps the littluns get fruit, and the one who volunteers to go down the mountain by himself to tell Piggy that they would not be back until morning. And in simple ways, Simon ...

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