Simon in the Lord of the Flies

Simon is a member of the choir, alone is the solely one who regardms weak. Simon is introduced in the novel when he faints this is a show of his weakness. He is a lot homogeneous piggy, but not as bullied. Ralph thinks he is queer and funny because he is realistic.Simon is the offset boy to notice the candle develop flowers when they argon step up walking. Simon always sees the religious side of the island. The only perpetrate you see candles nowadays is in churches. Jack slashes at the candle buds with his knife keeping up his reputation as the anarchist.The creepers on the island ar long vines. The small children see these creepers as beasties. When the little child comes forward during a meeting, he describes a snake-thing, then changes his read/write head to a beastie. The boy makes out the beastie to be corruptive. The beastie the boy has seen is not a tangible monster it is a monster privileged the boys head. The most terrifying thing is shabbiness and the unknown . The unknown makes the human imagination go wild and ask all the questions it can, Whats out there? Is it a huge macroscopical snake Is it coming to get me in the night?The snake-like thing the little-un describes is symbolic of the serpent in the story of exaltation and evening. In Genesis, in the Bible, the serpent is portrayed as the d grievous and acts once against gods wishes it offers Eve the yield from the corner of knowledge, unknowing of the consequences, Eve accepts the harvest-time. She offers the fruit to her husband, Adam. They approximately(prenominal) eat the fruit and become sensible of their state of undress. When God came walking in the garden he found that Adam and Eve had hidden their genitalia nether fig leaves. God banished Adam and Eve from Eden. The serpent, the devil, had won.Simon is the one who is helping to construct the huts on the beach. He believes the shelters will guard from the beastie. This is for the avail of the rest of the collectio n, not selfish like Jack and his crazed hunt for pigs. Simon is a bit of a loner he has his own cove in the jungle, which he keeps mysterious from everyone else. This place has more sunlight than the rest of the jungle and is decorated with floral bouquets. The jungle curtly turns into a picturesque haven from the out-of-door anger of the island. But Simon is not escaping the exterior force he is merely racetrack from himself, the Simon that exists with the other boys.When he is inside his limited sanctuary he fells protected. There is the way of the candle bud flowers again, and coupled with the arctic and sanctuary of the cove it almost turns into a church. When the laughable canopy of creepers envelops Simon, the light in the cove increases. The transition describes of how the evil in this part of the jungle disappears, Darkness poured out. Simon is the light in the evil of the island he is the only voice of religious belief amongst the chaos of evil.Golding is show ing Simon to be a spiritual guide in the book. When he is walking through the jungle towards his cavern, he comes across some small children, little-uns. They are trying to reach some fruit located just beyond their keep in a tree diagram. Simon obligingly picks the choicest fruit from the foliage and passes it back down to the eternal outstretched hands. This scene can be likened to an event in the bible, which is where Jesus the Nazarene feeds five thousand people with a few loaves of bread and some fish. Simon is the recoverer for these children they had been trying for hours to reach the juiciest fruit from the tree and Simon has got it for them with very little ease.Simons description by Golding shows he has a mop of hair, which is shady in colour. This is like that of Jesus Christ, again re pleasingling the association with a spiritual nature. same Piggy Simon is clear-sighted, he knows what is best, but remote Piggy he advises on the religious meanings of the island. He is the first boy in the party to notice the transformation that has occurred on the island. He sees that, the island they once took for an Eden, has under done for(p) a metamorphosis into a place of evil. When Jack talks of how the little-uns scream in their sleep, terrified of the beastie Simon is the first to acknowledge As if the beastie was real and As if it wasnt a respectable island. Simon is still blaming the evil experience on an outside force, he, like the entire group still fail to see the evil is inside or The darkness within. Jack also senses the evil on the island, he likens it to a physical front line when he goes hunting, you can feel as if youre not hunting, but-being hunted as if somethings back tooth youThe boys on the island have difficulty end their sentences this is because they are scared and embarrassed of their situation. The boys themselves get down it difficult to understand the emotions they are quality and whether these emotions should be listened to. The situation is like that of the Jews in Egypt from the Old Testament in the Bible. When the evil Egyptian slave masters control them, they were not enjoying themselves but they had some kind of law and order. When Moses freed them, they were happy at the wonders of freedom, but soon were reduced to a the vulgar of immoral wrong-doers.The boys have been ruled by grown-ups all their lives and when they find themselves on the Island, they are ecstatic, but when things get difficult and parvenue feelings arise, bad things happen. Luckily for the Jews Moses was there to moreover them, he went to God and received the ten-spot Commandments that brought law and order back to his people. perchance something similar will happen in this novel. Simon may save the boys, or he may be symbolising Moses and some other, yet unknown force, is God.