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aslnerd18
aslnerd18
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High School - 12th Grade

Who is "Lord of the Flies" in the novel of the same title, and what important information does the Lord of Flies give Simon?

   If I could the answers by Monday, that would be awesome.  I appreciate the help.

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Posted by aslnerd18 on Saturday May 16, 2009 at 9:30 AM and tagged with chapter 8, lord of the flies, simon, theme.

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  1. mwestwood
    mwestwood Teacher
    Community / Jr. College

    When Simon slips away from the others in "Lord of the Flies," he reaches his secret area, but from the bushes he espies a pig's head, swarming with flies.  In his delirium from a seizure, Simon "hears" the head speak to him.  "It assures him that everything was a bad business."  The "Lord of the Flies," or Beelzebub tells Simon,

    Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill?....You knew, didn't you?  I'm part of you.  Close, close, close!  I'm the reason things are no go?  Why things are the way they are?

    The beast tries to convince Simon to go along with him, but Simon resists and loses consciousness.  Later, when Simon tries to communicate his realization that the beast is the evil within the boys, the savagery, he becomes inarticulate.  Simon, the intuitive, cannot communicate with the rational in the form of Ralph and Piggy or the physical in the form of Jack and Roger and the other hunters.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/flies/chapter-8-summary-analysis
    http://www.enotes.com/flies/characters

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    Posted by mwestwood on Sunday May 17, 2009 at 8:50 PM