He climbs the mountain after an epileptic seizure to seek the truth. He does finds out that the 'beast' is actually just a dead parachutist.
Simon's death is ironic because he is on his way to tell the rest of the boys that the beast on the mountain top is simply the dead body of a man when he himself is mistaken for the beast and is savagely beaten to death.
Piggy was the last boy to reach the top of the mountain.
They thought the beast was the thing that fell from the sky referring to the parachutist who was dead when landed on the top of the mountain.
Ralph thinks that the beast on top of the mountain top is preventing them from the fire
Simon is an epileptic and during an epileptic fugue he has an internalised conversation with the evil which he knows dwells within us all. He mentally projects this inner beast onto the pig's head on a stick which Jack has left as an offering for the imagined beast.
The only "man" in the novel "Lord of the Flies" was a dead pilot who landed on the mountain top.
Simon picks fruit for the littluns on page 55 in the novel "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
The boys decide to build a fire at the top of the mountain in order to create a signal for possible rescuers.
Simon's death is ironic because he is on his way to tell the rest of the boys that the beast on the mountain top is simply the dead body of a man when he himself is mistaken for the beast and is savagely beaten to death.
In "Lord of the Flies," the wind carries a dead parachutist to the top of the mountain. This event triggers fear and paranoia among the boys as they mistake the parachutist for a beast.
Piggy was the last boy to reach the top of the mountain.
Simon is the Christ-figure in Lord of the Flies. He disappears to private clearings in the island to appreciate and commune with nature. Later in the novel, he goes alone to the top of the mountain to investigate the parachuter. After his death, his body is surrounded by a glowing halo of sea life and drifts away.
In Chapter 8, Simon discovers the "real" beast is a pig (sow) head on a stick, which is the Lord of the Flies... the lord of the flies also claims that the boys created the beast and everyone of the boys is a beast in himself.... In Chapter 9, the so called beast Samneric saw in earlier chapters and the same so called beast on top of the mountain that Roger, Ralph, and Jack saw is just a dead body of an airman in a parachute (Simon's discovery)... he then untangled the parachute lines...the wind caused the body to move like a puppet
They thought the beast was the thing that fell from the sky referring to the parachutist who was dead when landed on the top of the mountain.
Ralph thinks that the beast on top of the mountain top is preventing them from the fire
The changing of rules on the top of the mountain in "Lord of the Flies" symbolizes the shift in power dynamics and descent into savagery among the boys on the island. As they move physically higher on the mountain, their behavior reflects a moral decline and growing brutality, where rules become more arbitrary and violence becomes normalized. The mountain becomes a metaphorical space where authority and order are eroded, leading to chaos and conflict.
Simon is an epileptic and during an epileptic fugue he has an internalised conversation with the evil which he knows dwells within us all. He mentally projects this inner beast onto the pig's head on a stick which Jack has left as an offering for the imagined beast.