What are two metaphors in chapter 2 of Lord of the Flies?

There are several metaphors within Chapter Two of Lord of the Flies:

"He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted bout by a mulberry-colored birthmark." 

This metaphor compares the boy to a shrimp, which helps the reader understand exactly how small he is. This sets up an interesting comparison of size when the boy proclaims that there is a "beastie" problem on the island that must be resolved.

"On one side the air was cool, but on the other the fire thrust out a savage arm of heat that crinkled hair on the instant."

This metaphor personifies the fire, comparing the dancing flames and the heat they give off to the aggressive movement of a human arm being extended.

"The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world."

This metaphor compares the sun to gold and the horizon it is setting upon to a shelf-like structure. It is a picturesque description given the fact that the boys are about to encounter darkness on the island.

"The squirrel leapt on the wings of the wind and clung to another standing tree, eating downwards."

This metaphor is actually introduced by an earlier simile ("One patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel.") and compares the growing flames which are consuming the tree line to a squirrel gnawing away.

This is the chapter where the boys decide they need to build a fire on the mountain so that they can capture the attention of any ships that might be passing by them. There are several metaphors that refer to the fire, flames and logs that they use to make the fire. For example: "smoke on the mountain" and "platform of forest" and "the grotesque dead thing" and "breeze was a river of sparks" and "beard of flame" and "tree of sparks" - all of these apply to the fire or the materials that they use to create the fire. There are other non-fire related metaphors, but these stand out. Earlier, the little boy that is afraid of the "beastie" is referred to as "a shrimp of a boy" and later in the chapter there is "the sun in the west was a drop of buring gold".  If you read on towards the end of this chapter, you will see additional fire metaphors - there is a simile that compares the fire to a "squirrel" but then afterwards, this image is intensified with additional "squirrel" metaphors that compare the smoke from the fire to a squirrel.

Identify a metaphor in Chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies.

Simon's behavior in chapter 3 has some rough correspondence with the life of Christ. When Simon pulls fruit from the trees to fill "the endless outstretched hands" of the littluns, it is as if Christ is performing a miracle of feeding the multitudes. After he feeds the others, Simon retreats, alone, to a sanctuary he has found for himself that seems lit from within with "candle-buds." His selflessness, introspection, and spirituality in this chapter and the book overall loosely parallel Christ wandering for forty days in the desert and being faced with temptations. Like Christ, Simon declines eating food (the fruit), vying for power (like Ralph and Jack), and going to the mountaintop (where the beast is thought to be). Like Christ, Simon is brutally killed. This chapter builds the elaborate metaphor of Simon's perhaps unwitting emulation of Christ and prefigures the boys' destruction of him.

In chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies, called "Huts on the Beach," we can see a metaphor in the sentence "They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate." The "they" in this quote is referring to Jack and Ralph. 

First things first, we know this is a metaphor because the narrator is comparing the boys to continents and making this comparison without using "like" or "as." 

This is a particularly effective metaphor because it works on multiple levels. Continents are enormous, so the sentiment given here is that this terrible experience is causing the boys to have an enormous amount of new thoughts and feelings— enough to fill a continent. Generally speaking, continents are also separated and far apart from one another. We know from their conversations that Jack and Ralph have different priorities and aren't getting along, but this metaphor really emphasizes the idea that the two boys are on opposite wavelengths, thinking and feeling so differently from one another that trying to communicate is about as effective as trying to shout to someone from a different continent. 

What examples of figurative language appear in chapter 5 of "Lord of the Flies"?

William Golding was a master at weaving figurative language into his stories as a way of creatively describing important concepts that readers should take note of. Basically, figurative language departs from the literal meaning, using comparisons or connotative meanings to convey ideas in a unique manner. The most common types of figurative language are similes and metaphors, but there are many others, as well.  In chapter 5 of Lord of the Flies, Golding uses a nice mix to exemplify the tension Ralph and the other boys are experiencing.  Here are a few, in chronological order:

Oxymoron & epithet: As Ralph walks toward the platform to call a meeting, he faces the “concealing splendors of the sunlight.” Sunlight is generally revealing, making this a contradictory phrase.  It is also an unusual adjective to describe sunlight, making it an epithet.

Metaphor: Worrying over how to handle this meeting, Ralph “lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them.” Although his mind is not literally a maze, this analogy works well, since Ralph often loses his train of thought, due to the stress he is under.

Simile: Ralph gets distracted when he suddenly realizes how dirty he is. “[H]e noticed --in this new mood of comprehension--how the folds [of his shirt] were stiff like cardboard.”  This direct comparison helps readers almost feel the thick layer of grime that coats Ralph’s shirt.  Kind of makes you want to take a shower, right?

Simile: Ralph looks at the gathered boys with the reflection of the water coming up from below the platform, “and their faces were lit upside down--like, thought Ralph, when you hold an electric torch in your hands.”  Our modern comparison would be holding a flashlight under your face.  It’s an eerie image, which shows that Ralph is a bit intimidated to face the boys, knowing that they won’t like what he has to say.

Symbolism: "Ralph felt a kind of affectionate reverence for the conch...He flourished the conch" which causes the boys to fall silent, waiting for him to begin. Later, when Ralph asks Piggy how he was brave enough to argue with Jack, Piggy replies with simple logic: “I had the conch. I had a right to speak.” Ralph could not run the meetings without the shell, around which they have formed rules of civilized behavior for meetings, using it kind of like a gavel. For Ralph and Piggy especially, it symbolizes order and civilized society, which is why they cling to it.

Simile & symbolism:  “One had to sit, attracting all eyes to the conch, and drop words like heavy round stones among the little groups.” This comparison shows that Ralph knows his words must be carefully chosen to have an impact on the boys.  It also furthers the symbolism of stones as a destructive force in their loss of innocence.

Metaphor: When the littlun Percival recites his full name and address, it brings his buried memories of home crashing down on him. ¨As if this information was rooted far down in the springs of sorrow, the littlun wept....A spring had been tapped, far beyond the reach of authority.¨ Likening the child’s memories to water buried deep in the earth is a fitting comparison, since the boy’s next reaction is to cry uncontrollably.

Personification: Golding frequently gives the ocean human-like qualities, which is fitting, considering that it is an antagonist, keeping the boys from their homes, families and normal childhoods.  As it gets dark and the meeting turns to talk of beasts and ghosts in the forest, the boys ¨heard silently the sough and whisper from the reef.¨ Shortly later, a¨flurry of wind made the palms talk...Two gray trunks rubbed each other with an evil squeaking.¨ At night, the whole island seems to turn evil and come to life. Ralph realizes that this distracts the boys and admits to them that this is a bad time for a meeting.

Allusion: By the end of the chapter, when Jack has rejected Ralph’s authority and drawn the boys away with wild screams and laughter, Ralph feels hopeless.  He suggests that he should give up being chief.  Although Piggy and Simon stick by his side, he laments,  "'Fat lot of good we are.  Three blind mice.  I´ll give up.'" The reference to the popular children’s song reminds us that these boys are supposed to be just kids.  Instead, they feel small, helpless, and blind as they try to determine the answers to their increasingly hopeless situation.

What are some examples of figurative language in chapter 10 of Lord of the Flies?

Symbolism:

Piggy's glasses and the conch are powerful symbols throughout the novel, which are depicted and discussed in chapter 10. The conch symbolizes civil society, democracy, and order. At the beginning of chapter 10, Ralph refuses to blow the conch and call an assembly because Jack and his hunters will not acknowledge the conch. The fact that Jack and his hunters will not obey the conch illustrates their level of savagery and contempt for civilization. Piggy's glasses symbolize intelligence, scientific thought, and rationality. At the end of chapter 10, Jack and his hunters steal Piggy's glasses, leaving Ralph's tribe intellectually helpless and out of rational options.

Allusion:

As Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric are contemplating their next move at their base camp, the boys begin hoping for a radio, plane, or boat. Ralph responds by saying, "We might get taken prisoner by the Reds" (Golding, 126). Ralph is alluding to the Soviet forces, who were the communist enemies of the British during the Cold War.

Alliteration:

This stylistic device is when multiple words that begin with the same consonant sound are written together in a series. Golding utilizes alliteration by writing, "The rest of you can go to sleep as soon as the sun sets" (125).

Imagery:

Golding creates a visible representation of the scene in chapter 10 by writing, "At length, save for an occasional rustle, the shelter was silent. An oblong of blackness relieved with brilliant spangles hung before them and there was the hollow sound of surf on the reef" (128).

Foreshadow:

In chapter 11, Roger dislodges a large boulder from the top of Castle Rock, which ends up killing Piggy. Golding foreshadows Piggy's death by writing, "A log had been jammed under the topmost rock and another lever under that. Robert leaned lightly on the lever and the rock groaned. A full effort would send the rock thundering down to the neck of land" (123).

An example of antithesis, which is the use of contradicting ideas in a single statement, occurred when Ralph tried to explain what happened during the dance. The words loathing and feverish excitement are contradictory terms.

There was loathing, and at the same time a kind of feverish excitement, in his voice.

An example of personification occurred when the author stated that Ralph was ambushed by sleep. The word ambushed was used to give sleep, which is an inanimate object, the qualities of a living thing.

Ralph continued to snigger though his chest hurt. His twitching exhausted him till he lay, breathless and woebegone, waiting for the next spasm. During one of these pauses he was ambushed by sleep.

An example of hyperbole, which is the use of exaggeration in a statement, occurs when the author described the darkness in Ralph’s camp by adding that it was blanket-thick.

The darkness, save for the useless oblong of stars, was blanket-thick.

Figurative language examples abound in Chapter Ten of Lord of the Flies. 

Personification:  Giving human qualities to non-human objects or things.

1. "Where a thread of white smoke climbed up the sky" uses personification, making the smoke seem as though it were scaling the sky, like a climber (159)

Simile: a comparison between two non-similar things using like or as

1.  "Roger clambered up the ladder-like cliff" is a simile (159).  Golding compares the cliff to a ladder.

2. "A fist withdrew and came back like a piston, so that the whole shelter exploded into light" (167).  The motion of the fist is compared to a machine part, a piston, which has a strong pumping motion; the connotation suggests that Ralph was hit very hard.

3. "He began to pound the mouth below him, using his clenched fist as a hammer" (167).  The simile compares Ralph's fist to a hammer, suggesting that he hit the other boy very hard.

Metaphor: a comparison between two non-similar things without using like or as

1. "One eye was a slit in his puffy cheek" compares Ralph's  eye to a slit; the imagery suggests that Ralph's eye is extremely swollen.

2. "They saw a triangle of startling pink dart out, pass along his lips, and vanish again" (160).  Golding uses the imagery of the "triangle of startling pink" as a metaphor for Jack's tongue; the metaphor makes Jack's action seem very animalistic.

Can you provide a simile, metaphor, and personification from Lord of the Flies?

A simile is a comparison between two seemingly unlike things, using the word like or as to make the comparison. In chapter 1, Ralph compares sleep to a mirage:

Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.

The simile in this comparison makes sleep seem fleeting and even imaginary. After all, who has time for sleep after being stranded on a deserted island? Later, Ralph looks out across the children in this same chapter and finds the twins:

The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs.

This comparison makes the twins seem friendly and loyal, which is fitting for their characterization throughout the book.

A metaphor is a more direct comparison, not using like or as. In chapter 2, the group pushes one boy to the front to speak:

He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark.

The young boy is compared here to a shrimp, meaning that he is small and weak. As he tries to speak, the assembly of boys laughs at him, and he begins to cry. In this same chapter, another metaphor is used to describe the sun:

The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world.

Comparing the sun to gold which is on fire presents a vivid imagery of the way it appears in the sky. It also creates a metaphor of the value of sunlight, for as it disappears, the group of boys face new challenges in the darkness.

Personification is giving human qualities to things that are not human. In chapter 1, a rock is given humanlike motions as the boys attempt to move it:

The great rock loitered, poised on one toe, decided not to return, moved through the air, fell, struck, turned over, leapt droning through the air and smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest.

The rock almost seems to dance here, considering its options as it balances "on one toe." It decides and leaps, which seems human-like.

This novel is full of incredible figurative language, which is one of the many reasons why readers are able to clearly visualize this wild island which the boys attempt to conquer.

Metaphor- “The creature was a party of boys (pg 16).” This choice of words also has strong symbolic meaning in the overall story. Literally, they were, as a group, working their way through a dangerous jungle. At the same time, there are dark connotations to this phrase. The way it is used makes it seem as though there is something dark and foreboding about this “creature” of boys, as though they are capable of bringing some kind of chaos or destruction to the island, which they do in the end.

Simile- "The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished (pg 29)." Another instance: "The breezes that on the lagoon had chased their tails like kittens were finding their way across the platform and into the forest (pg 34)." At one point, Golding writes, "The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs (not sure of the page number)."

Personification – Found in the conversation between the dead pig head and Simon. Obviously a pig would not be able to speak, and the head of a dead pig would be even less likely to speak. I believe this conversation takes place on page 41. Another example is found on page 15, "When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper winged things in the shade." Hope this helps.

What are three examples of metaphors in Lord of the Flies?

Metaphors are comparisons that don't use the words like or as. In chapter 2, the metaphors are simple and commonplace, then grow more vivid as Golding describes the burning spread of the fire the boys build.

Earlier in the chapter, before the fire starts, a little boy steps forward to tell the other boys about the snakelike "beastie" he has seen. Golding uses a very commonplace metaphor when he compares the boy to a shrimp, a small creature, stating:

He was a shrimp of a boy

The metaphors gets a little fresher when the laughter of the other boys hurts the little boy's feelings. In this case, the laughing is likened to being hit, as it is called "the blow of laughter."

Another worn metaphor is applied to Ralph when he is distracted. It is said that "he lost his thread" of his thoughts.

When it comes to describing fire, Golding becomes much more vivid. The fire is compared to a beard as it flames upward into sky:

The yellow flames...poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air.

Later, the fire is, as well, likened to a flag: "a clean flag of flame flying."

The fire is also compared to a flaming arm:

The fire thrust out a savage arm of heat.

The fire, in yet another metaphor is likened to an animal chewing away at the forest:

The fire laid hold on the forest and began to gnaw.

When Piggy stares at the fire, it is compared to hell, a place often described as an inferno: "Piggy glanced nervously into hell."

This pile up of metaphors reveals mixed feelings about the fire: it grows from a flag, an item associated with civilization, to being associated with more primal and frightening imagery.

Two lovely and less threatening metaphors describe the sunset. The sun is likened to a drop of burning gold and the world to a window sill:

The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world.

William Golding sprinkles metaphors throughout his writing, and the other answers give some good examples. Here are three more.

In Chapter 5, as Ralph follows a narrow path to the meeting place, Golding writes,

"He found himself understanding the wearismomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet." 

Here Golding draws a comparison between the careful way Ralph has to walk along the jungle path to the careful way the boys have to think about and make decisions in order to not fall into danger. He realizes they are not doing a good job of "staying on course," or "walking the straight and narrow path" of civilized society.

Golding describes Ralph's lack of clear thinking in a variety of ways. In Chapter 7, he relates the conflicting voices Ralph hears in his head and says "the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality." It is a stark comparison to bring in such a distant image from the far removed, technologically advanced society they used to live in, but it shows that Ralph's thinking is numbed or drugged with fear in this scene.

In the final chapter, Golding describes Ralph's wavering sense of sanity and logic as "the curtain that might waver in his brain, blacking out the sense of danger, making a simpleton of him." In this way he compares Ralph's inability to think clearly to a curtain that can hide one's view and blind one to necessary information. 

All three of these metaphors make intangible thought processes easier to understand by comparing them with physical objects and experiences.

A metaphor refers to a comparison made between two objects that are unlike. In this book, there are several metaphors some of which include:

a. “Fat lot of good we are,” said Ralph. “Three blind mice.” Ralph said this in reference to himself, Piggy and Simon after Jack disregarded his leadership in front of everybody. He was cowardly and did not stand up and challenge Jack or Jack’s ideas. He doubted himself and wanted to step down from the role of leader. Besides, neither he, Simon or Piggy knew for certain about the existence of ghosts hence Ralph’s statement, three blind mice.

b. “The smoke was a tight little knot on the horizon and was uncoiling slowly.” The smoke from the ship is likened to a tight knot because that is how the boys perceived it based on the distance from the shore to the ship.

c. “The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently…” This is found in the first chapter and is used to describe the length and color of the beach between the water and the palm trees. The beach is so long that from Ralph’s viewpoint, its appearance resembled that of a thin stick because of the contrast created by the water and the palm terrace.

Remember, a metaphor is a form of figurative language that asserts a direct comparison between two objects without using the words "like" or "as".

How about some of these for examples of metaphors:

"The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick..."

Also metaphors can be implied, where an object is called something else that implies a comparison. An implied metaphor is used to describe the choir boys in Chapter 1:

"Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing."

"Creature" is an implied metaphor that compares the line of boys to some kind of snake moving on the sand.

There are two examples for you - the book is full of others, so hopefully with these two you will be able to find a third without too many problems.

What is an example of a metaphor in Lord of the Flies?

1. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase indirectly compares two seemingly unrelated things that share some common characteristics. In chapter 3, Ralph and Jack fail to see eye-to-eye on the issues of building shelters and hunting pigs. Ralph desperately attempts to express the need to build shelters but cannot persuade Jack to support his plan. Jack is only concerned with hunting and completely rejects the idea of building shelters. Golding uses a metaphor to illustrate their different opinions and beliefs by writing,

They [Ralph and Jack] walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.

This metaphor accurately applies to Ralph and Jack's different ideas, values, and beliefs by comparing the two boys to walking on separate continents. Continents are both large, typically have different landforms, and are also distant from each other. This metaphor emphasizes the different wavelengths and opinions of Ralph and Jack and depicts them as complete opposites. In order to recreate this metaphor, one could simply draw the outline of two continents and write the names of Ralph and Jack on the separate continents.

2. In chapter 5, Ralph has difficulty articulating his thoughts and worries that he will not be able to express himself clearly in front of the boys. Golding utilizes another metaphor by writing,

He [Ralph] lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them.

Metaphorically comparing Ralph's inability to think clearly to being lost in a maze accurately depicts his difficult situation and struggle to organize his thoughts. This metaphor should be easy to recreate by simply drawing Ralph standing or walking through a giant maze.

What about the vines hanging from trees that become "snake things" to the "littluns"? Or, in Chapter 4 of "Lord of the Flies," Jack smears clay ("dazzle paint") on his face, then black, then he changes the colors making a savage mask. Another metaphor exists in Chapter 5 as Ralph walks down a narrow path and "finds himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life where every path was an improvisation and...one's waking life was spent watching one's feet."

N.B. The question somehow has been misplaced into "Candide."

Can you detail two similes from Lord of the Flies?

In chapter 8, a group of the boys seems to get closer to the beast whose presence has haunted their days and nights on the island:

Behind them the sliver of moon had drawn clear of the horizon. Before then, something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees.

In this simile, the form of the beast really emerges. It presents as ape-like in form, with its head down ominously. Readers learn that this is actually the body of a man whose parachute has become entangled in the jungle, but as the boys process the "ruin of a face" that lifts before them, the simile reinforces the not-quite human qualities of the "beast."

In chapter 10, Ralph and Piggy's camp is attacked unexpectedly, and the following simile is used in the description of the struggle:

A fist withdrew and came back like a piston, so that the whole shelter exploded into light.

This simile shows both the quick force of the punch being thrown and the violent nature that propels it forward. It connotes an explosive strength in the impact.

Lord of the Flies is filled with figurative language, including similes, which brings the descriptions of the boys' struggles to acute visual clarity.

A simile is a figure of speech, which compares two different things using the words "like" or "as." Throughout the novel, William Golding utilizes similes to illustrate thoughts, which adds imagery to the text.

1. In chapter 4, the atmosphere of the island is described during the middle of the day, when the heat is at its most intense. Golding utilizes a simile to describe the hot weather by writing,

"At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like an angry eye." (82)

The sun being compared to an angry eye emphasizes the extreme heat of the sun's rays. By personifying the sun and using a simile to convey the emotion of anger, Golding illustrates how the intense heat causes the boys discomfort and forces them to remain in the shade throughout the daytime.

2. In chapter 8, Jack and his savages raid Ralph's camp and steal some burning logs from their fire. After Jack turns around and tells the boys that they are welcome to join his camp, Golding utilizes a simile to describe Ralph's posture. Golding writes,

"Ralph was kneeling by the remains of the fire like a sprinter at his mark and his face was half-hidden by hair and smut." (202)

Comparing Ralph's posture to that of a sprinter's stance is significant and illustrates his intense, prepared attitude. Similarly to how a sprinter is focused and ready to compete, Ralph is also prepared to defend himself and challenge Jack.

A simile is a figure of speech that uses the words "like" or "as" to form a comparison between two unlike objects.

When Ralph, Jack, and Simon start to explore the territory around them to see if they are on an island, they find that they had difficulty, not with the steep ascent but with the undergrowth.

"Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles." (pg 26 - chapter one)

This compares the roots and stems of creepers -- a form of crawling underbrush -- with pliant needles.  The needles suggest that these roots and stems poke into them as they walk.  The word "pliant" means that they yielded to the boys movement.

Another simile is when the boys gather wood to build a signal fire for the first time.  They start the fire and gather around it.

"The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock." ( pg 44 -- chapter two)

This simile compares the movement of flames with a creeping jaguar.  These are two unlike objects and the image here is a slow, low lying flame moving toward some other trees.

The page numbers I have given are for my edition of the book.  I have included the chapters so that they may be easily found.  They should  be close to that page though.

What figurative language describes Simon in Lord of the Flies?

Much of the figurative language that William Golding uses in describing Simon employs metaphor.

Simon is described in a straightforward way in several places: he is a short, dark-complexioned boy with straight black hair. In chapter 1, Golding uses the metaphor of a "hut" to describe the shape his hair makes:

[H]e was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse.

Simon has a generous, helpful nature. When Piggy’s specs fly off, Simon finds them (chapter 4). Piggy’s emotions are personified, and metaphor is also employed.

Simon, who got there first, found them for him. Passions beat about Simon on the mountain-top with awful wings.

Simon is also shy and dreads speaking in public. When he tries to explain that the beast is not real, he finds it difficult to speak (chapter 5). When the other boys loudly ridicule his ideas, he is distressed, as shown with the metaphor “Simon's effort fell about him in ruins.”

When Simon embarks on his spiritual journey—a Christlike ordeal in the wilderness—he confronts the pig head covered with blood and flies (chapter 8). In his mind it becomes real and, as the Lord of the Flies, speaks to him. The dark interior of its mouth is associated with spiritual despair, or blackness, and it pulls him in. Golding makes Simon’s vision seem real by stating how he understood it rather than telling the reader it was imagined. Golding says Simon “was inside the mouth” rather than “he imagined he was inside the mouth.”

Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.

"—Or else," said the Lord of the Flies, "we shall do you? See? Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph. Do you. See?"

Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness.

When the boys attack Simon, they turn him into the beast (chapter 9). Golding again makes the metaphor seem real; he alternates between referring to him as “the beast” and, after Simon is dead, as the “body.” Once the body enters the water, phosphorescent sea creatures surround it, and Golding uses metaphor ("silvered," "sculptured marble") to describe the changes. He also personifies the water as "dressing" Simon's hair.

The water rose farther and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

What is a metaphor in Lord of the Flies that represents a character?

In chapter 4, Roger throws stones at Henry, but his conscience doesn't allow him to aim directly at Henry. Golding describes the metaphorical "space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which (Roger) dare not throw." The metaphor is extended when the space is also described as "the taboo of the old life." This metaphor highlights how, at this early point in the novel, Roger and most of the other boys are still governed by the morals they learned in their "old life." Their consciences are still tied to the civilized lives they led before the island.

At the beginning of chapter 5, Ralph is described as having "lost himself in a maze of thoughts." This metaphor emphasizes how thoughtful and also how confused Ralph is as he thinks about how to bring the group of boys into line. They haven't been following the rules, and Ralph is thinking about how best to organize them into a more effective, efficient, and cohesive unit.

In chapter 12, Ralph is chased and hunted by a group of Jack's hunters, who have set the jungle on fire to smoke him out. The hunters close in on him, all "crying out madly." Golding writes that Jack "forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." There are two metaphors in this quotation. The first describes Jack as fear, emphasizing how fear has consumed him entirely. The second describes how Jack's feet seem to fly, again emphasizing how fearful he is in this moment. The fear makes him run so quickly that his feet seem to be flying over the ground.

A metaphor is figurative language that compares one thing to another by equating the two things. Several metaphors are used in the book that refer to the boys. When the boys make the first fire, even Ralph rushes away to join in the excitement, leaving Piggy behind. He is compared to a parent with the following metaphorical description: "Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch." In chapter 5, when the boys have run away at the end of the meeting, Piggy says, "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway," comparing the boys to mere unthinking creatures. In chapter 7, Ralph's habit of thinking during meetings is compared to playing chess, but he is described as someone who "would never be a very good chess player." This does not refer to his actual ability to play chess but rather to strategize while others were watching. In chapter 8, when the boys come to Ralph to steal fire, "demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out howling." This metaphor compares the boys to demons. When Ralph confronts Jack at Castle Rock, he shouts, "You're a beast and a swine." These are insults, of course, but they are metaphors that compare Jack to an animal. 

In chapter 5, after the assembly, when Ralph is talking about stepping down as chief, Ralph refers to  Piggy, Simon, and himself by saying: " Fat lot of good we are, said Ralph. "Three blind mice."  In my edition it is on page 108.

Later in the novel, chapter 8 page 164, Golding refers to Simon as a "small brown image, concealed by leaves.