Friday, January 1, 2010

Simon can be related to the Bible in many ways (part 1)


The character Simon in the lord of the flies has many strong connections to the bible.
For starters, on page 57 Simon walks into the forest after listening to Ralph and Jack's heated debate about the importance of the group. Following him are the younger children referred to as the "littluns" throughout the book. Once in the forest, "Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down the endless, outstretched hands." right after feeding the "littluns" Simon leaves them to venture into the jungle.
How this is related to the bible is to be found in the books Matthew, Mark, and John where the “littluns” are represented as the multitudes and Simon as Jesus. In Mark chapter 6 32-46 Jesus and his disciples departed to a deserted place in the boat by themselves. But the multitudes saw them departing, and many knew who Jesus was and ran there on foot from all the cities. The multitudes arrived before them and came together to Jesus. And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. So He began to teach them many things. When the day was now far spent, His disciples came to Him and said, "This is a deserted place, and already the hour is late." "Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread for they have nothing to eat" But Jesus answered and said to them, "You give them something to eat." The disciples answered Him back saying that they only had five loaves of bread and two fish. After hearing this Jesus then told the disciples to make the great multitude sit on the grass. Then Jesus took the bread and fish and looked up into heaven, blessed and broke the bread. Then his disciples passed the food down to the multitude, and all ate of the food and were full. Right after the feeding of the great multitude Jesus and His disciples left.

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