Jack talks out of turn, declaring now that if there is a beast he and his hunters shall track it down and kill it. Ralph realizes at last how much "[t]he world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. With all the boys dispersing without warning, he is unable to act. Anarchy and chaos have come to dominate the assembly and the democracy he had tried so hard to establish.
Only Simon and Piggy remain to comfort him. He wishes to resign his post as chief and give up but Piggy fears that without Ralph in power as his protector, Jack will harm him. Simon too blurts out another random comment as is his nature, simply: "Go on being chief. Ralph laments on how "something grown-up" should be sent to them as a sign, to give them hope.
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View the Lesson Plans. Table of Contents. Plot Summary. Major Characters. Topic Tracking: Beast. Topic Tracking: Government. Topic Tracking: Intellectual. Topic Tracking: Pig. Simon seems to believe that the boys have a real fear, but that the thing they should fear is not a beastie, but the darkness within each of them.
Simon is the only person who is able to remain entirely good and untainted by the island, and in Chapter 2, he stands up for Piggy. In Chapter 5, a littlun says he saw someone in the darkness and Simon confesses that he was wandering alone at night. Simon regularly visits a clearing in the jungle, the same clearing where Jack and his hunters savagely mutilate a sow and leave her head on a stake. In this scene, the boy mistakenly believes Simon is the beast, foreshadowing the later scene when the group as whole mistakes him for the beast, and kill him in a fearful frenzy.
To the dismay of Ralph and Piggy, Simon admits in Chapter 5 that he does believe in the beast, but suggests that the beast is actually the inherent evil inside each one of them. Simon senses early on that the boys will fall into violent savagery and become their own worst enemies.
Simon provides comfort to Ralph in Chapter 7 when he suggests that Ralph will return home eventually. Ace your assignments with our guide to Lord of the Flies! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Why is Ralph chosen to be the chief? Why does Jack think he should be the chief? Who is the first boy to die on the island? Why does Jack hate Ralph? What is the beast? What does Simon want to tell the other boys? How does Piggy die? Does Ralph survive? Why is the backdrop of the war important to the story?
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