Friday, January 1, 2010

Simon can be related to the Bible in many ways (part 3)


In Chapter nine and ten of Lord of the flies, Simon finds out that there isn’t a beast on the island, and that it is just their imaginations. When Simon comes out of the jungle in the night to tell the others, Jack and his tribe mistakes Simon for the beast, and they kill Simon. Piggy and Ralph are in denial after watching Jack’s tribe murder Simon on the beach the night before. When Piggy and Ralph start arguing about Simon’s death it goes into a heating debate about the night’s events. How this scene can be related to the bible is in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. When Jesus (just like Simon) was an innocent person and was put to death by a great group of Jews (just like Jack’s tribe). The reason why both Simon and Jesus were put to death was that the Jews and they were confused about whom they were. For the Jews didn’t think that Jesus was the son of God, and Simon being mistaken for the beast. Then after the death of the Jesus and Simon some of the people who witness their deaths still didn’t believe who they were just like the Jews, Jacks tribe, Ralph and Piggy.

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