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Simon, even though he dies, has a lot of significance to the book before end even after he died. As we have talked about in class, he is like a "Jesus" figure. He says a lot of deep things that no one else knows. He knows his path, and how it is going down. He may not of made it to the end of the book, but he will be in the atmosphere for the rest of it.
The odd thing about Simon was in chapter 9, when the boys started to horseshoe around him, and start talking about him as an it. Also the boys that were hurting him were addressed as its too. I didn't fully get this until we talked about it, but the way we said it, they were de-personifying. They were acting to the equivalent of animals. Also, when we found out that Simon was the beast. I was so surprised that it was him, but now that I think about it, it does really all fit together. Simon always sneaks around in the woods at night, and the time the litluns saw it was lurking around the woods. It also connects to Simon being the Jesus because he was for there being a beast. Even though he knew all along that he himself was the beast. In one quote, Golding didn't write directly that it was Simon, but gave you many hints and clues to show that it was him. He wrote, "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 pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe. Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill"  (152). It talks about how Simon came out of the hill, and went into the horseshoe. He doesn't write Simon, but the beast. As they kill him, and he it sent off to sea, he is still in the midst of everyone. After this killing, the island was never the same.