“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” they said.
A figure came from the shadows and the group killed it like a lion.
But what they didn’t know, was that the “beast” is Simon.
It was a dark and stormy night, everyone was afraid, there was a monster that could attack at any moment, and they were only kids that could potentially live on the island until they die. Who would be to blame for Simon’s death?
Everyone are to blame for Simon’s death because they beated his body and left him there to die slowly. Simon was only trying to tell the group that the “beast” at the mountain was actually a dead human body with a parachute. After his long walk down to Jack’s tribe, he stumbled into the chanting group, and was …show more content…
When they left him, Simon had no energy to lift himself. The tide came in and a single bubble of air escaped from his mouth.
The people who participated in the chanting or anyone that was present are to blame because Jack’s tribe beat Simon until he had no energy. At the moment of Simon’s appearance, everyone panicked. The book states, “The littluns screamed and blundered about, fleeing from the edge of the forest, and one of them broke the ring of biguns in terror. ‘Him! Him!’ The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe.” This quote shows how everyone panicked and overreacted, thinking Simon was the beast. It was dark at the time and everyone became terrified. The people that beat Simon were the ones that took away his life without reason. In the story, Piggy and Ralph were there and