Simon Lord Of The Flies Analysis

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This event causes great panic in the boys because they mistake the dead soldier as the beast. Jack then forms a group that is joined by all of the boys except a few. Jack’s group is playing the role as the savages: putting on war paint, hunting, and performing ritualistic tribal dances. Later, Jack’s group hunts a sow and offers its head to the beast. From all of the boys, Simon is the only one who discovers truly what the beast is. What Simon discovers is that the beast is not real, it is all in their heads. He tries to tell everybody what he discovers, but he fell into one of their viscous tribal dances. They think Simon is the beast, so they all killed him. The first step of total chaos arising in Lord of The Flies in when they kill Simon.