Blog #8

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LOTF: chapters 8 and 9




In these scenes Jack and the hunters create “ The Gift” and Simon talks to it. These scenes were the most terrifying to me because in the first scene the author describes it in detail and it talks about a lot of blood and it describes the head of the pig being cut off. In the second scene Simon is talking to a pig head on a stick and what’s more terrifying than a little boy talking to a pig head? The first scene was kind of weird because they cut of the pig head for a reason. That reason was to keep the beast away from them and make it be nice to them. They kind of saw it as a gift to the beast. But in this scene the author really describes the pig’s head getting cut off and the killing of the pig in great detail. In the second scene it was very weird and it was kind of like Simon was hallucinating. He though that the pig was talking to him. Some of the things he thought the pig said were: “ Im in your head you can’t kill me” and “ I am inside you I am the beast”. This showed us three things. One that the lord of the flies is the beast. Two something dark is going to happen. Three that Simon was going a little crazy.

I believe that Jack is 75% responsible for Simons death the other 25% is the storm. I believe this because in the book it says that jack started spearing the beast who was saying something about a dead man on top of the mountain. This shows that Simon was the beast because he had just seen a dead man on top of the mountain. I also think it was th storm because the boys were scared of the storm so they just freaked out and killed whatever popped out of the forest no even knowing what is was. I think this because Simon popped out of the bushes exactly when the dead aviator floated through the air whish frightened the boys. These are the reasons I think that Jack and the storm were responsible for Simons death.