Simon plan LOTF

Question 1

Intro

Answer 1

-Brief introduction to LOTF
-Simon’s significance to novel as he is a symbol of natural goodness and insight.
-Simon is initially a shy character but his importance heightens as the story develops.

Question 2

Beginning

Answer 2

-Simon’s first description

-Skinny, vivid little boy’
-‘Always throwing a fit’ -Hinting towards epilepsy and foreshadowing his spiritual christ-like nature

Emphasises the loss of innocence as he is initially presented as innocent.

Question 3

Middle

Answer 3

-‘You’ll get back to where you come from’
use of ‘you’ foreshadows his own death

Simon’s encounter with the LOTF

-‘Go back to the others’
-‘You knew didn’t you?’
-‘Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill’.

Links to he became inarticulate to express mankind’s essential illness earlier on.

Explores theme of mankind’s inner evil

Question 4

End

Answer 4

Simon’s death in Chapter 9

-The beast was on it’s knees in the centre’
-‘It was crying’
-‘It’s arms folded over it’s face.’

The boy’s mistake Simon for the beast Shows the transition from civilisation to savagery as they brutally murder him.