Comments on: LORD OF THE FLIES-Quotations and explanations on the relationship between Ralph and Jack? http://www.e-g-o.co.uk/lord-of-the-flies-quotations-and-explanations-on-the-relationship-between-ralph-and-jack/ If you have or know of EGO stay here Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Skyler Mccarthy http://www.e-g-o.co.uk/lord-of-the-flies-quotations-and-explanations-on-the-relationship-between-ralph-and-jack/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Skyler Mccarthy Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:38:39 +0000 http://www.e-g-o.co.uk/lord-of-the-flies-quotations-and-explanations-on-the-relationship-between-ralph-and-jack/#comment-396 His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink. EXPLANATION: Simon speaks these words in Chapter 5, during the meeting in which the boys consider the question of the beast. One littlun has proposed the terrifying idea that the beast may hide in the ocean during the day and emerge only at night, and the boys argue about whether the beast might actually exist. Simon, meanwhile, proposes that perhaps the beast is only the boys themselves. Although the other boys laugh off Simon's suggestion, Simon's words are central to Golding's point that innate human evil exists. Simon is the first character in the novel to see the beast not as an external force but as a component of human nature. Simon does not yet fully understand his own idea, but it becomes clearer to him in Chapter 8, when he has a vision in the glade and confronts the Lord of the Flies. sparknotes.com this website might be helpful for you to understand more clearly and also ther's a free quotation explanation. His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

EXPLANATION: Simon speaks these words in Chapter 5, during the meeting in which the boys consider the question of the beast. One littlun has proposed the terrifying idea that the beast may hide in the ocean during the day and emerge only at night, and the boys argue about whether the beast might actually exist. Simon, meanwhile, proposes that perhaps the beast is only the boys themselves. Although the other boys laugh off Simon’s suggestion, Simon’s words are central to Golding’s point that innate human evil exists. Simon is the first character in the novel to see the beast not as an external force but as a component of human nature. Simon does not yet fully understand his own idea, but it becomes clearer to him in Chapter 8, when he has a vision in the glade and confronts the Lord of the Flies.

sparknotes.com this website might be helpful for you to understand more clearly and also ther’s a free quotation explanation.

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