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Post by emilyhadzalic on Feb 24, 2015 10:32:54 GMT
How do the boys come to kill Simon? Explain. Simon is tired and weak from his trip in the woods, and he staggers towards the mountain in a daze. He realises that the dead parachutist was what the boys thought was the beast and hurried to Jack's feast to prove their was no beast all along. The boys at the feast were in a frenzied state, chanting and dancing in several separate circles along the beach.mEven Ralph and Piggy were swept away by the excitement. The boys then see a shadowy figure creep out of the forest, Simon. The do not recognise him in their wild state however. Shouting that he is the beast, the boys descend upon Simon and start to tear him apart with their bare hands and teeth. Simon tries desperately to explain what has happened and to tell them who he is, but he trips and falls over the rocks onto the beach. The boys fall on him violently and kill him. The frenzied and wild state of the boys is definitely the reason why the boys didn't recognise Simon, and it just goes to show that there really is a beastie inside of every human. Also, when the circle of boys surrounds Simon the author describes it as, "the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed." This is really similar to when Simon thought the pig head had eaten him and it just reinforces the fact again, that the boys themselves are the beastie.
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Post by kayleewilliams on Feb 25, 2015 10:16:50 GMT
The boys worked up a frenzy around him, pretending he was the pig. They beat him to death and tore and bit his skin. Simon was too exhausted from the time he spent in the woods (how he spent the day unable to move and then how clumsily he stumbled away) and all he could do was scream in pain. All he did was come to tell the boys not to fear and they killed him because of their frenzied bloodlust. They also did this because they thought he was the beastie. |
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Post by mattsmart on Feb 26, 2015 10:54:40 GMT
The boys were dancing and chanting becuase they were exited about killing and eating another pig. Simon, who was very tired and weak from his faint, came to tell the boys how there is not beast. The boys got scared and confused thinking Simon was the beast so they stab him and beat him until death. Also they did not know that it was simon becasuse of all the loud noise that was occuring around |
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Post by mackenzieg on Feb 26, 2015 14:07:00 GMT
The boys worked up a frenzy around him, pretending he was the pig. They beat him to death and tore and bit his skin. Simon was too exhausted from the time he spent in the woods (how he spent the day unable to move and then how clumsily he stumbled away) and all he could do was scream in pain. All he did was come to tell the boys not to fear and they killed him because of their frenzied bloodlust. I think that it was a tragic thing to happen seeing as Simon was trying to tell them about the beast and how it was inside them but the boys had already embraced the beast inside them and they had savagely killed simon in the process. |
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