Lord of the Flies

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   The text depicts him as innocent by his relationship to a nature that is beautiful rather than hostile or aggressive. Whenever we see him crawl into his "special place" we see the sunlight surround him, creating an effect of a halo. In Chapter 3, he crawls into the center of a mat of growth, and there "butterflies ...danced round each other in the hot air," and everything is calm and beautiful. He is in harmony with a nature that is harmless and beautiful, and assumes its qualities as a result. After he is killed, we see his body float out to see, and even dead he is beautiful:  "Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea" (Chapter 9). Again, he is helpless, so harmless, so innocent, he is like a star from the heavens above.

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