Lord of the flies blog #8
by: Travis Tibiatowski
I think the most disturbing part of the chapter was when Simon was talking to the Lord of the flies. But the lord of the flies happened to be a pigs decapitated head on a stick with flies eating its guts of the ground. He was in like in a drug like trance he was over heating and sweating while he was talking to the lord of the flies. mainly in this coversation the "pig head" he talk about how simon would die. Also how there was a dark future to come. One thing that was disturbing was how the pig acted as if he was superior and would call Simon a "silly little child", and would to tell him to go "play". I am mainly disturbed by how he had a long conversations with the pig head and that it could tell Simon was going to die. It was weird how he passed out at the end of the conversation.
I think that Jack is mainly responsible for the murder of Simon. He was the one who decided to attack the beastie "Simon". He also suggested to do their brutal chant which obviously brings out agression. I think he also should have waited to see if it was agressive or not. If it was the real beatie it may have been good. But all Jack cares about is killing. his cover up for killing simonn was it was the beastie in duisgise. He abveously knew that it was simon when he puased while telling his hunters.
I think Jacks group of savages killed Simon because when Jack was talking to his hunters he paused then told them it was the beastie in disguies. Also he was closs enough to Simon when he was stabbing him to see it must have been him. My claim is true beacuse if you jump on top of someone and are closs enought to stab them with a knife you should be able to tell who they are. A mental way to tell it was him was that when he was telling his hunters what the beastie was "Simon" he paused and told them it was the beastie in disguies. I think when Simon died it was a part of the book that showed things are getting bad now and there may be dark times ahead. This shows in human nature that we just cant always work togather that in the end there is always going to be a fight a war a "break up of clans".