“The boys round Simon giggled, and he stood up, laughing a little. Now that the pallor of his faint was over, he was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse” (Golding 24). Simon is described as a “skinny, vivid little boy.” He has thick black hair as well as bright eyes, characteristics for a Christ-like figure. “Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach. Pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched arms” (Golding 56). “He went crouching and feeling over the rocks but Simon, who got there first, found them for him” (Golding 71). “Simon, sitting between the twins and Piggy, wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it” (Golding 74). …show more content…
He has a desire to help others as well as make them happy. His kind personality is similar to Jesus’s personality. “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness” (Golding 89). Simon is the only one who tries to understand man’s darkness. Though he does not know yet what exactly it is, he seeks to find the answer. “With a feeling of humiliation on Simon’s behalf, Ralph took back the conch” (Golding 85). Simon’s actions are considered very strange to the other boys. He is the one that sticks out from the rest and is different from everyone else. “Simon had passed through the area of fruit trees but today the littluns had been too busy with the fire on the beach” (Golding 132). Simon often goes to his quiet place in the forest while everyone else is participating in hunting, swimming, partying, etc. He is also the least savage as well as the goodest out of all the boys. His quiet place could be a reference to a praying spot where Jesus finds a silent place away from