Quotation: “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?” (143). Quotation in Context: This quote is significant because during this conversation with the “Lord of the Flies”, Simon’s doubt of the beast being inside of them from chapter five: “What I mean is,,,maybe it’s only us.” (89), is confirmed. The “Lord of the Flies” represents the evil nature in the kids on the island. This is shown when the “Lord of the Flies” identifies himself as a beast, and speaks to Simon saying, “You knew didn’t you?’ I’, part of you.” Just before this conversation, Jack and his …show more content…
But, as time went on and circumstances changed, so did they. The boys first lose the focus of wanting to be rescued, and instead find pleasure in things such as hunting. At first it seems only Jack is on this route, but as the novel progresses, everyone’s minds turn in that same direction. As some of the boys develop a liking to hunting and a slight thirst for killing, they start to enact scenes of themselves attacking and killing a pig, and turn it into a tribal dance. The littluns’ fear of a “beast” is becoming more and more frightening and realistic to them, and they start to convince Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Simon, and the other older boys also. Jack and Ralph look at and deal with this issue in different ways and because of other events, a drift is created between the two of them. The whole group of boys split and most join Jack’s tribe because he promises them a feast, and drives fear out of their hearts by having everyone do the tribal dance. This dance is a crucial event in the novel and it has a lot of significance. During this dance, the actual bloodthirsty character of the boys are shown. The first time they perform this dance, a young boy is pretending to be a pig, and he is badly beat up because everyone loses self-control and starts to go into attacking mode. The second time this dance is performed, the boys find, attack, and murder