The boys think there is a "Beast" on the island that intends them harm. The chant "Kill The Beast" is used to build up their courage to seek out and kill the beast.
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He's trying to tell the others that he found the beast, but ends up being mistaken for it in the dark and they kill him on accident
They mounted it on a stick. it was a offering the the beast.
In chapter 1 of Lord of the Flies, Jack does not kill the pig with his knife because he's still innocent at this point in the book and cannot bear to actually cut into living flesh. However, as time proceeds, Jack adopts a much more savage personality.
This quote can be found on page 152.
Simon's comment was about the beast. He suspected that the beast was not an animal and obviously didn't believe that it was a ghost. This left only one remaining possibility, that there was no beast. Simon believed that the beast was simply a product of the boy's own imaginations. The beast only existed in their own minds. However there was a deeper reasoning to Simon's comment. Simone suspected that the beast wasn't just a product of the boys' own imaginations but was actually the boys themselves. It was the boys themselves who were the 'beast,' capable of hurting, of killing and of committing acts of evil.