Chapter 9, View to a Death
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- Chapter 9, View to a Death
- Why this chapter is important
- Pathetic fallacy, lightning and rain helps foreshadow and imitate mood
- The conch ‘will not Ben heard’ and Jack Is ‘painted’ end of civilisation
- Ralph and doing piggy lose innocence
- Simons death symbolises an imbalance of evil
- Simon much like Jesus is killed trying to tell the spiritual truth
- Parachutist is a reminder of the war outside of the island and the link to humanity
- Summary
- Simon wakes, met by the lord of the flies. Covered in dried blood he heads back
- He reaches top of mountain, finds that beast is just dead body on a parachute.
- Ralph and Piggy join party, Jack is ‘painted and garlanded’
- Atmosphere is tense and they reinact pigs death,
- Kill the beast, cut his throat, spill his blood
- Something crawls into circle from the forest, pouncing they scream, bite, strike and tear.
- Boys struggle away, simons body below was staining the sand
- Why this chapter is important
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