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Foreshadowing In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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The foreshadowing of Simon’s death is shown when the boys violently kill a sow. Jack and his tribe seek out to find meat to eat. They finally stumble upon a sow and violently murder the poor and innocent creature. The author writes, “He giggled and flecked them while the boys laughed at his reeking palms. Then Jack grabbed Maurice and rubbed the stuff over his cheeks”. (Golding, 135). The sickening details of this scene delineates the boys as savage, especially their entertainment as Roger gradually push his spear into the torment stricken creature's rear-end. In view of their interest with Roger's activity, the young men reenact this scene a few times. Jack opening the sow's throat and together with his hunters and he places the head on a …show more content…

He's innocent and has done no harm, yet the boys kill him. The reader becomes queasy and afraid, beginning to realizes that this violent killing may not only happen to an animal, but to a human too. This foreshadows that the boys may be capable of far more killing an animal. Simon's vicious killing occurs in exactly the same way, and he was just as innocent as the poor sow. This scene also foreshadows his death because the boys killing the pig is their first extreme savage act and their first actions that show that they are no longer civilized. The boys even stick the pigs head on spear and call it their gift to the beast, “The head is for the beast. It's a gift” (Golding, 137). The impurity of this scene gives readers a look into what's to come. This foreshadows Simon's death because it shows that if they treat a pig this bad, they are going to do worse stuff to a human. The purpose of this scene is to show the finish of guiltlessness and human progress and start of viciousness. Amid the eagerly awaited devour, the boys assault and severely kill Simon with their hands and teeth. This scene also shows that the the societies rules no longer apply to the

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He goes into great detail while describing the gruesome murder of Simon. He also uses Pathos to develop Piggy's character. We feel bad for Piggy because he is a genuine human being, and the other boys constantly make fun of him. Golding writes “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore...blood was staining the sand”(pg.153). This makes the reader feel empathy towards Simon, who has done nothing wrong.

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In Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of boys’ are forced to live on an island without law and order. Therefore, many of the boys experience a savagery phase on the island, causing them to constantly resort to violence over an issue. These boys primarily consist of Jack’s tribe in the novel. Through the boys’ use of face paint and Jack’s tribe killing people and animals, the reader learns that masks are used to disguise people who aspire to commit evil acts and become savages.

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As a consequence of the hunting group’s fear of the literal beast, Simon dies.

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Through vivid imagery in chapter 9, Golding paints a scene that uses Simon's death to patently resemble the crucifixion of Christ. The boys on the island are now in dire need of a Christ like character to guide them. To be a “Christ figure” a character must attain and exemplify the traits and values possessed by the Biblical Christ. Although Simon portrays qualities that a Christ figure needs to succeed, he completely fails as evident in his brutal but ineffective crucifixion and his fruitless attempt at martyrdom.

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The boys barbarically beat down Simon who appears to be a beast to them. The fear blinds the children and they do not even question what it is. They lose their sense of right and wrong as they forget the rules of society and commit a murder. Even though, Simon was screaming out to them and trying to send his message, the boys ignored it and continued to beat him down. This shows that the boys are so desperate that to get rid of the beast, they lose all sense of their humanity and kill their own friend.

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(135). The pig is dead, but the boys continue stabbing her with their spears. At this point, just the sight of that pink flesh and their spear piercing her flesh satisfies their savage need to kill. “Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted all over his hands.” The boys only stop butchering the sow when blood begins to coat their hands.

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When Jack and his hunters relentlessly kill him it is the first time readers truthfully see evil overpower good. Now that the once Christ-figure is dead their devilish traits start to escape them. Even Piggy, someone who is portrayed as wise and kind, tries to justify for Simon’s murder when he says, “It was dark. There was that- that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain.

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93). This is predicting what happens in chapter 11, when Piggy is killed. Piggy knew that without Ralph there, Jack could easily get rid of him, and that finally occurs in chapter 11, when Ralph is so weak and powerless that he is basically out of Jack’s way. Simon’s death, which marks the official turning point from civil boys to savages, is also foreshadowed in many ways. In the beginning of the book, when the choir is introduced in chapter 1, Simon faints.

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(168) Jack’s tribe, overcome by their inner savagery, without thinking kill Simon thinking he’s the beast, this shows that the boys on the island have lost the part of civilization inside them. Piggy 's murder was also unjustified but also done with intent, “Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square, red rock in the sea. His head open and stuff came out and turned red, piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig who had just been killed. ”(201)

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This action causes the boys to go into a savage frenzy , screaming, yelling, and mass chaos, all because Jack told them to do their dance. Their dance turned into ritual killing where all the boys, including Jack, ruthlessly stabbed and beat Simon repeatedly to death. Jack had caused the mass chaos and if he had never done that, Simon would still be alive and not a corpse at the bottom of the ocean. Jack and his tribe committed murder and only Ralph recognized it for what it was: “that was murder…. I wasn’t

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The boys interaction with the sow demonstrates their loss of morality through Jack's actions. “Jack held up the head and jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick … a little blood dribbling down the stick” (Golding 136-137). There was a major use of imagery, which helped to set an ominous mood, in Golding's description of the sow's head being mounted for the beast. Jack uses this act to to his advantage, scaring the boys even further into the places of his devoted savage-servants. Simon's death was one of the boys ultimate losses of morality.

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