Simon was always the one there for everyone else and protected them. Especially the littluns. He even made the people around him choose the right path, just like God having a good effect on the people around him as well. In the end of chapter one, Ralph, Jack, and Simon all walk through the island exploring their surroundings. “They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers...There came a pause, a hiatus...The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. Then the piglet tore loose” (Golding 31). It is almost as if Jack could not kill the piglet because of Simons presents, he felt guilty and couldn 't bare the thought of what all the blood would look like. Simon later encounters the beast that also proves him to represent
Simon was always the one there for everyone else and protected them. Especially the littluns. He even made the people around him choose the right path, just like God having a good effect on the people around him as well. In the end of chapter one, Ralph, Jack, and Simon all walk through the island exploring their surroundings. “They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers...There came a pause, a hiatus...The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. Then the piglet tore loose” (Golding 31). It is almost as if Jack could not kill the piglet because of Simons presents, he felt guilty and couldn 't bare the thought of what all the blood would look like. Simon later encounters the beast that also proves him to represent