The Lord of the Flies talks these lines to Simon in Chapter 8, upon Simon's vision in the meadow. These words affirm Simon's theory in Chapter 5 that maybe the beast is just the young men themselves. This thought of the horrible behavior on the island being inside the young men is a major component to the novel's investigation of inborn human brutality. The Lord of the Flies distinguishes itself as the brute and recognizes to Simon that it exists inside every single individual: "You knew, didn’t you? I'm a part of you?" The animal's odd dialect of the young men's slang ("I'm the reason why it's no go") makes the beast seem much more ugly, for he insults Simon with the same informal, well known dialect the young men utilize themselves. Simon,