Socially he is a loner in class. He prefers to do solitary activities. When his peers try to engage him, Benji typically moves away from them. His teacher reported that Benji will only talk about things he knows about- he does not typically engage in spontaneous conversations. Mrs.
He then follows it up with “I don’t know” (Golding 89), which shows him being in his own world. His “decontextualization… splits off the activity from [his] social frame of reference and reduces [his] contact with reality” (“Apa”). This is the way Simon just is, he is a follower, but has a different mindset compared to others. His introverted nature stops him from getting any message out to others. He mumbles, confusedly, “I don’t believe in the beast” (Golding 105).
These instances changed Simon into more of a leader which helped in the end. In the scene where the bus crashed into the water, Simon took leadership and risked his life to save the others. Simon got this leadership from his friendship with the
Finally, the last characteristic Simon possesses is that he is devotedly faithful. He is an enormous believer of God and loves sharing his faith with other people. This is proven during various conversations with Reverend Russell and his best friend, Joe Wenteworth. When Simon is talking to the reverend, he suggests that God made him the way he is for a reason and says, “I think I 'm God 's instrument - that he 's gonna use me to carry out his plan.” Despite the reverend not agreeing to this statement, Simon still has faith he is.
We can see that Simon wasn’t always sure, and needed
He said that he wasn’t a judgmental person. He also said that attribute came from and was passed on to him by his father. He described him in a very negative way. He said that he had a very aggressive personality.
You don’t find many people like that at all. I remember the time when he helped a little kid that went to our school when we all went to that third grade retreat. We were loading all the third graders on to a bus but we were missing one. Simon was severely sick that day, but he really wanted to help a kid who was nervous about it. He talked him through it and the kid ended up jumping onto the ride.
He never fell into that stereotype, he didn’t act like the other students when he was told to be quiet. He stated that “I am smart, I am arrogant, I am lucky, and I am trying to save our lives.” His Father loved to read his books, and his love for his father motivated him to read as well. From him following his Father step he later
Another common theory is that Simon had schizophrenia, a “long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.” This would explain the nosebleed, a common side effect, and why Simon gets very perturbed when Ralph calls him crazy in chapter 7, “When Simon was still silent Ralph said curtly, ‘You’re batty.’ Simon shook his head violently till the coarse black hair flew backwards and forwards across
This quote from the text allows us to see how Simon wasn’t very organized at killing and never really planned how he would do it, showing his sporadic behavior. He often killed in groups which showed he didn’t care about not getting caught, this was just something he enjoyed doing, proving that he wasn’t very organized and just wanted the thrill of the kill. The second trait Simon checks into is that the majority of sociopaths have very minimal emotional connection and don’t often feel empathy towards others. This is shown when they are talking with Simon and the only person he has some sort of connection with is his sister, who he cares about, furthermore, he killed a police officer for no reason while being arrested for his murders. One piece of evidence to support this is “‘Simon Gutmunsson was arrested for a series of murders between 1978 and 1980 in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
He was intensely private but could be convivial and gregarious in the extreme, and despite his overdeveloped
This quote shows that on two separate occasions when he was younger, he was an objectively bad person with bad behavior. Now if we relate this to his current day life, you can’t say that much has changed. He has already shown that he is still a bully with his actions against Simon, and this consistency shows that he is also unlikely to change for the
He was seen by others as essentially emotionless and did not easily connect with others. These traits could be contributed towards Schizoid Personality Disorder.
Similarly, Simon has an engrained goodness in him that shines through even in the toughest moments. He retrieved Piggy’s glasses after they were knocked off his face post a punch in the face by Jack, and, like Christ, he was good with kids, helping the younger littluns pick fruit, finding “for them fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands” (Golding 56). Simon was also very wise and insightful, and maybe even slightly prophetic. When he was dehydrated and hallucinating, he imagined the
