Lord of the Flies
...mptations. Such as in chapter four Ralph yells at Jack for neglecting the fire to go hunt then he turns around and eats the pig that Jack killed during that hunt. Another representation of Ralph’s goodness is his protection of Piggy. Through out the novel Ralph makes fun of Piggy, but when Piggy makes a suggestion or is seriously getting picked on by the other boys Ralph listens and defends piggy. In chapter two when the boys lit the fire they stole the glasses right off of Piggy’s face. After the fire is lit “Ralph stook away from the pile and put the glasses into Piggy’s groping hands.” (38) Then at the end of the novel Piggy talks Ralph into going to Jack to get his glasses back. Unfortunatly this leads to the demise of Piggy and Ralph can’t do anything about it. Simon is described by Golding as one of the in-between boys; a "skinny, vivid little boy" with straight, coarse black hair.(22) Simon shares the experiences of both the littluns and the older boys. He has the innocent perceptions and feelings of littluns but the knowledge of the biguns. He takes life much more seriously than the others, being plagued with a moral consciousness that the other boys don’t understand. Simon is the only one that can hear the voice of the “beast” and he realizes that the beast isn’t something that can be killed. He sees that it is something that is inside each of the boys. Simon is also the only one of the boys that knows that the dead parachutist isn’t a beast. He understands that with the death of the man in the parachute, which symbolizes the death of reason. Finally Simon is seen as a Christ figure because he gives up his life in an attempt to tell the rest of the boys about his discovery about the “beast.” Jack is described by Golding as "tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckle...