Blog # 8

Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness

In this scene, Simon finds the sacrificial pig head that the hunters gave as an offering to the “beastie”. Hours later, the pig head has started to rot and decay, and when Simon finds it, it is swarming with flies. Simon had slipped away from the camp and returned to his chapel. When he finds the pig’s head on the stake sits there, staring with it. The sight mesmerizes him, and it even seems as if the head comes to life. The head speaks to Simon as “Lord of the Flies,” stating that Simon will never be able to escape him, or get rid of him. Because he is the beast, and he lives in all us. He yells that Simon the boys are going to have fun on this island! Actual fun. Terrified ghost, Simon faints, as we heard in the beginning of the book that he usually does. I think that this is creepy because it’s like the devil living within us all. The lord of the flies in a way is the devil, seeing that he is the evil in us.

Chapter 9: A View to a Death

I’d like to say that it was Jacks fault, and put all the blame on him, but I can’t, considering that it was the faults of all the boys doing their tribal dance, even Ralph and Piggy. Of course, if Jack had not split from the group, then they wouldn’t have been dancing and they wouldn’t have mistaken Simon for the beast in disguise. So in a way, it is Jack’s fault.

It says that in the boy’s wild state, they do not recognize Simon and start ripping him part, for fear that he is the beast. The wild state was brought on by the wild dance that Jack had them do in the rain, therefore stating that it was Jack bringing the wild state on them. But he never told them to kill Simon, that was all the boys.

It also states that the pilot scares the boys away. They run into the Darkness away from it. I would believe the this means boy’s were in a frenzied state, tired and full of energy that the pig meat gave them. So ultimately, it was their fault.

So it is Jack’s fault for splitting the group and starting a new tribe, accident because of the boy’s fear of the beast, and the fault of the boys as a whole for going crazy and killing Simon.