The longer the boys are on the island, the more they forget about the ideas of morality. From chapter one, it can be predicted that there will be issues of societal indecency. Simon is the one character who is able to identify the problems on the island. He knows the island is ruining these boys but is unable to find the courage to speak up. At the beginning of the book, the boys knew right from wrong but chose to act anyways. Towards the end, nothing was wrong to them. Unlike any other boy on the island, Simon saw right from wrong and analyzed the consequences. The boys never had intentions of destroying all societal norms, but the island was just too much for them. The thought of no adult supervision consumed all ideas of civilization. Due to the fact that Simon did not experience these changes, he secluded himself from the group. His unique character not only lead him to be secluded from the group but led them to not acknowledge …show more content…
The island was a force of evil that Simon just couldn’t beat. In the beginning, the unsupervised island adopted a democracy between the boys, which was pleasing to Simon. Further into the book, the boys viewed the protagonist on the island as the beast. Simon was able to see that the only protagonist on this island was the ground they were standing upon. He was able to identify that worrying so much about the beast was turning the boys themselves into beasts. He is the only person on the island to discover the physical beast, the airplane pilot. Unfortunately, on his journey to inform the others of this, he was mistaken as the beast and was brutally murdered. The real beast wasn’t Simon or the pilot, it was the dark side of human nature. The internal battle of good and evil overtook the boys, taking a physical form of savagery. Simon brings out the idea that every human might have a little bit of evil in