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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Simon Timeline and Summary

• Earlier we know Simon's name, we encounter him faint while under the leadership of Jack Merridew.
• Ralph, Jack and Simon get off to explore the island.
• While Jack is hunting, Ralph and Simon endeavor to build two shelters out of palm trunks and leaves.
• Afterwards, Simon walks around on the island with the littluns following him. He helps them pick some fruit and so goes into the jungle by himself.
• Simon comes to a identify where "the creepers had woven a great mat that hung at the side of an open space in the jungle."
• He crawls inside this space and peers out at the immigration.
• Evening is coming and he watches the birds and collywobbles.
• And so he sits back in the small space and stays there by himself as night falls, just thinking.
• More time has passed. Ralph, Simon, and Piggy are trying to build shelters and continue the betoken burn down going.
• Jack goes off to hunt once more and meanwhile, dorsum at the lagoon, Ralph, Simon and Piggy are swimming along with a male child named Maurice.
• After Jack punches Piggy in the face, Simon finds Piggy's glasses and reveals that a lens is broken.
• When the littluns discuss their fears of the beast at Ralph'due south assembly, Simon makes a annotate on "mankind's essential illness," stating that the creature is "only us."
• Simon tries to farther his point by asking, "What'south the dirtiest thing there is?" Every bit the boys express joy, Simon gives upward on his try to make them retrieve about themselves and sits down in defeat.
• As Ralph despairs, Simon tries to convince him to proceed being chief.
• Simon walks along with Jack and Ralph while they search for the brute, feeling doubtful that there is such a creature as the ane Sam and Eric described. Instead, he can't help imagining "a picture of a human, at one time heroic and ill."
• As Ralph stares out into the ocean, Simon speaks into his ear, "Yous'll become back all right."
• Ralph thinks Simon is batty and says so, just still, he is somehow comforted by this – the boys smile at each other.
• The sun is setting and Simon volunteers to go off through the jungle to tell Piggy that they won't be back until subsequently dark (the rest of them are too scared to walk effectually in the jungle at nighttime by themselves).
• While the boys talk over the beast they take seen, Simon says that they should go up the mountain and face it. No one agrees with him.
• Simon goes off into the jungle past himself to once again sit backside the great woven mat of creepers.
• He is very thirsty, only he just stays in that location, hidden in his cave of vines.
• Simon watches from behind his mat of creepers while Jack and his coiffure kill the mother squealer and mount her head on a stick.
• Simon stares at the black blob of guts that the boys have piled on the ground. The mess is covered with buzzing flies.
• The flies gather on Simon's hot, sweaty face.
• Every bit the flies crawl over him, Simon stares at the impaled head, which he thinks of as the "Lord of the Flies." He watches as it hangs on its stick, smiling.
• Simon isn't doing too well. He's been sitting in his little "cavern" for what nosotros can just guess is a actually, really long time. His natural language is swollen, and he'south hallucinating that he's having a chat with the impaled pig's caput, the "Lord of the Flies."
• The Lord of the Flies says frightening things to Simon about the fact that he is lonely and that there's no ane to aid him. "Only me," the pig's head says. "And I'm the Beast."
• The Lord of the Flies and so asks Simon, "Didn't you know I'm part of you?" Information technology threatens that the others will "do" him.
• Simon feels that "one of his times is coming on" and that he'southward falling into a "vast mouth." He is consumed by blackness, and he loses consciousness.
• Simon has a bloody nose while unconscious.
• When he wakes, The Lord of the Flies is still hanging on his stick "like a black ball."
• With dried blood roofing his mouth and chin, Simon staggers out of his hiding identify and begins making his way upwards the mountain, still intending to face the beast.
• When he gets to the top, he sees that the beast that anybody has been so afraid of is actually only a dead body attached to a parachute, the lines tangled in the rocks.
• Simon pukes upwardly everything and so frees the parachute lines from the rocks.
• He looks downward at the fire on the beach and realizes he must tell the others that the "animal," although horrible, is harmless.
• He staggers downward, virtually collapsing with each step.
• Down at the political party, the boys have worked themselves into a wild frenzy. This is correct about the moment when Simon staggers into the center, crying out something about a "expressionless human on a hill."
• Pouncing on Simon, the boys scream, strike, bite, tear, and by and large destroy him. Simon is dead.
• Rain pours downwards and the boys straggle away, leaving the deplorable heap that is Simon lying in the dirt, his blood "staining the sand."
• Eventually the rain ceases, and as the water rises under the moon, "Simon's expressionless body [moves] out toward the open up sea."

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