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Simon Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis

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In the book, The Lord of the Flies, Simon says,” Maybe… there is a beast… What I mean is… maybe it is only us.”(89) Scared and alone, Simon tells all of the boys that the beast is only themselves. Simon, who is wise and more mature, tries to tell the boys that there is nothing to be scared about. Uncaring, all of the boys think he does not know what he is talking about. While none of the boys listened to Simon, they all began to try to hunt the beast. Simon is the only boy to truly grasp that the beast is just all the negative, horrible aspects of mankind. Throughout the book, the boys definitely had me convinced that there was some type of beast on the island. After the boys first got on the island, they all thought there was something that
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