LOTF - Chapter Nine

Question Answers

1. Simon gets a bloody nose when he is sleeping but the flies still prefer the dead pig head and the pig's guts.
2. He decides to go to the mountainside where the dead aviator is.
3. Simon untangles the parachute lines from the rocks.
4. Piggy suggests that they should go to the party.
5. The awkward presence is accepted because Piggy gets burned and so everyone laughs and makes fun of him, easing the tension between them.
6. Jack says Ralph doesn't have the conch with him and so it doesn't count or matter.
7. The weather became rainy and windy towards the end of the party.
8. They chant, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"
9. Simon comes out of the jungle and tries to tell the rest of the boys that the beast on top of the mountain is just a dead aviator.



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Simon's Death

I accuse the beast for causing Simon's death, but really I blame evil in general because the beast is "mankind's essential illness", which is evil. The beast had crept into the minds of the boys a long time ago and it finally unleashed it's true capacity. In Chapter Five, Simon sheds light onto the subject. "What's the dirtiest thing there is?", he asks at the meeting, trying to get the boys to understand what he thinks is the beast and what finally killed him. While the boys chanted and danced around Simon, William Golding says that "Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill". Simon was trying to get the message across to the boys, the message that he was trying to explain four chapters ago. If there was no beast or no evil on the island, Simon wouldn't have died trying to tell the boys and the boys wouldn't have been possesed by evil. Another reason evil is the cause of Simon's death is that the boys were blinded by the evil and did not realize that the thing that they were up against was Simon. In the very last part of the dance when they kill Simon, William Golding starts to call Simon the beast in the text. He was making that part of the chapter in the boy's point of view of what Simon was. To conclude my point about what really caused Simon's murder, I belive that evil iin general is what killed Simon because Simon believes that the beast is mankind's essential illness: evil.