1. What change has Simon gone through? Why is “the usual brightness gone from his eyes?” You may answer this with a scientific explanation or a deeply philosophic reason. Each are acceptable and valid.
2. What is the figure
that he encounters and what does he realize?
3. What is “the
beast?”
4. What are Ralph and
Piggy doing at the beginning of Chapter 9?
5. Where has everyone but Piggy and Ralph gone? What are they doing?
6. Where do Piggy and
Ralph eventually go?
7. What argument does
Jack make for being leader? What
argument does Jack make for being leader?
What reasons does each of them give for the rest of the boys to follow
them?
8. When it begins to
rain, what do all of the boys begin to do?
What movement, specifically? What
are they collectively referred to as?
9. What crawls out of
the forest? Who crawls out of the
forest? What mistaken identity takes
place? What clue is given at the bottom
of page 152? What happens to this beast?
10. During the storm,
where does the figure on the mountaintop move to?
11. Where does the
“beast” go?
12. Paragraph- Write a short paragraph on Simon’s
fate. If he is a representation or
symbol of kindness, then what comment is William Golding, the author of Lord
of the Flies, making on humanity in the novel. How is Simon’s fate symbolic?
