Chapter 8 & 9 Blog Post

Lord of the Flies Paragraphs

The scene that caught my attention and mainly was building the climax higher for me and making the book more intense was the part where the Lord of the Flies talks with Simon. This part was very interesting as the Lord of the Flies was telling Simon that they thought they could kill the beastie and hunt it and as it ends up saying its inside everyone especially Simon. What it meant that it is inside everyone that everyone was going to their dark side fighting with each other just to hunt or kill one thing that did not really prove strength or leadership. Since everyone mainly fought against each just to kill the so-called “Beastie”, they end up splitting up and forming to new tribes. It also showed that everyone has his or her dark side and a good side inside of them. As the Lord of the Flies threatens Simon about things, it also tells him to go warn that Jack was going to attack. That clue I thought to myself that it was a dark and rainy night and darkness is mainly evil and sometimes death and a dead thing talking made it seem something or someone was going to die. I believe that William Golding had a good idea using a dead animal to show that with destruction and violence it will not move you forward to any good things it would make things worse. In Chapter 9 since Simon goes back to the tribe to try to tell them what was, going to happen what ends up happening is that Simon dies and that was a warning for Simon to be careful.

Simon’s Death

I say that Jack is responsible for the death of Simon. A quote that supports my claim is where Jack leads his tribe into saying their little chant, which is “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood”. As you can see there, he is the one leading his tribe into attacking and without thinking they just let their dark emotions take over and attack Simon who they thought was the beastie and killed him. I say that it was Jacks fault for killing Simon as if they would have stopped and waited for a little bit more, they would not have killed Simon but since they were thirsty for blood and all, excited they went all out on Simon without thinking. Therefore, it shows that the dark side within people is another person inside you who you cannot control. Now think about this if you were hungry and ready to attack anything near you would you think when all your emotions are running wild you probably would not and that is what happened. Because Jack was the one leading his group to attack, he could have stopped them since he is the chief of his tribe.