“Lord of the Flies” Character Essay Example

to him and telling him that he’s going to be killed by everyone. In the next chapter, Simon is killed and is swept away into the dark, blue ocean. Simon not only has a sixth perception about things but is caring and thoughtful as well. Simon is a kindhearted person throughout the story.

“Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy, whipped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it”. Jack doesn’t give Piggy a piece of meat, so out of kindness, Simon gives Piggy his piece. “ Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands”.Simon gets fruit for the littluns who can’t reach it by themselves, another kind of act only meant to help another. “He went crouching and feeling over the rocks but Simon, who got there first, found them for him”. When Jack hits Piggy and he loses his glasses, Simon is the one that picks them up for him.

Simon knows that Piggy gets picked on and is disliked among most of the members of the tribe, but he helps him out anyways. Simon’s angelic nature is topped off with the fact that he has seizures. Simon faints continuously throughout the story, which gives the impression that he’s weak. “Then one of the boys flopped on his face in the sand and the line broke up”.

This is the first time Simon faints. “ ‘He’s [Simon] always throwing a faint,’ said Merridew”. Here Jack Merridew admits that Simon has fainted a lot in the past and should

be just left alone on the sand. “Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness”.

When he imagines that the sow’s head is talking to him, he has a seizure near the end of the conversation and blacks out. This is the last time he fainted until his life ended. Simon faints a lot throughout the story giving others the impression he is weak and sickly, but in truth, he is a very strong, caring person. Simon represented the good on the island.

When he dies, something happens to all of the boys in the circle. They all lose a part of them that was good. His death symbolized the death of innocence and all that is good. Simon the perceptive, respectful, and six-sensed child represents the basic goodness that people possess, because of that, society has held together.