Simon’s character, was a complete opposite from all the others, because he represented the best of humanity. The Lord of the Flies, was written by WIlliam Golding in 1954, and is about a group of young boys who get stranded on an island, and are forced to create their own society to survive. The main theme of the book is the conflict within all humans between their civilized selves and their natural savagery. Near the beginning of the Lord of the Flies, Simon is a positive boy who always tries to keep the peace, but towards the end, Simon becomes solitary and introspective.
At the beginning of the book, Simon is a happy boy who is at heart the best humanity has to offer. One of the earliest times we see Simon’s true goodness, is when the shelters are being put up and no one else is helping Ralph, except for Simon. “All day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else.” From that we see that Simon is truly a great person, and even though he’s not the strongest, and is prone to fainting he still helps out, because he has a desire to help people. We also see Simon’s desire to stand up for people and keep the peace. We see this early on in the book when he stands up for Piggy. “We used Piggy’s specs...He helped that way.” Piggy is a character who is made fun of occasionally by the other boys and sometimes even ralph, but Simon is different from the rest, and here he stood up for Piggy. Simon started out as a happy caring person, who wanted to help everyone.
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Towards the end of the book, Simon becomes like a stranger and more secluded. We see Simon starts to become more isolated, when he tells Ralph and Piggy that he likes to wander in the jungle by himself. “I wanted--to go to a place...just a place I know. A place in the jungle.” This quote shows us that Simon likes to go off by himself in the dangerous jungle, because he doesn’t want to be around the other boys. At the end, Simon is the only boy who sees the downfall of the boys coming. “Maybe there is a beast… Maybe it’s only us.” It is seen from here that Simon could already see the evil that was coming out of the boys, and he alone knew what they would become. At the end of the book, and overall the end of his life, Simon became the example of the good in humanity, but even then he was still killed by the other boys savagery.
At the beginning of the book, Simon is a happy cheerful boy who stands up for everyone, but towards the end of the book, he becomes sadder as he realizes the dark path the other boys are going down. Simon shows his goodness early on when he stands up for Piggy, and is the only one helping Ralph build the huts. We start to see Simon become more solitary when he tells others that likes to walk out into the jungle by himself, and we see him become more introspective and sad when he suggests that maybe the beast is within the hearts of the children. Simon’s character and his development are meant to represent the perfect person, and how that person can’t survive when surrounded by the savagery of others, and we see this become a reality when Simon is brutally murdered by the other children.
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