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Simons motivation is based on trying to help getting off the island. Also was tired of Jack and the hunters bullying him. He also was trying to survive. Simon didn't want to deal with Jack anymore and he wanted to go home.

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Simons motivation is based on trying to get off the Island. This is because he's tired of Jack and his hunters teasing him and he is sick of people saying there's a beast.

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Simon always cared about the littluns, he wanted them to be safe. He also felt responsible for them because Piggy was the only other one who took care of them. He always wanted to help Ralph but that was friendship not love. He wanted to make friends but when people pushed him away he would go to his sanctuary. The sanctuary was a field of flowers and butterflies. Chapter eight states the exact description of the sanctuary, this is, "flowers grew and butterflies danced round each other and the air hot and still." Simon loved that place (up until Jack left a bloody pig head there). It was where he escaped to when he was in despair. It was the only place where he could be free from the stress of the island.

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Simon never thought that the beast was real. This led him to go to the top of the mountain to look for the beast. When Simon arrived at the top of the mountain, he found a beaten up corpse attached to parachute. Unlike the other boys, Simon did not mistake this for the beast and instead untangled the lines to the parachute so the body could fly away.  However, now that he actually knew the beast wasn't real, Simon went to tell the boys this. Tragically, it was too late.

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Simon tries to keep control of his sanity so he doesn't end up like the hunters.
Simon also tries to control the feeling that he may never be rescued. Simon kept his control when unting the parachute.

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Simon was a very nice kid who was compassionate, but not taken very seriously. He always wants to help, but others don't want it. He was lonely with only a few friends. He had very strong beliefs, but was afraid to tell others about them. He was always convinced that Ralph was going to live but he wasn't so sure about himself.  In chapter 7 he tells Ralph "All the same. you'll get back all right. I think so, anyway"

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Thoughtfulness subsided by the ignorance of man,
The mysterious outer layer of a veiled astute force,
A symbol of morality on a land concurred by ravening, now floats lifelessly on an endless ocean of regret,
A death caused by vain haste of a inferior power,
power driven by former civility then turned with dread

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The hunters see Simon as a weak and helpless boy who was always scared. Ralph and his crewmates see Simon as a nice helpful boy that would always be loyal and forgiving.

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"Maybe there is a beast... maybe its just us."
Simon always doubted that that beast was real, but he never knew for Sure. In chapter five, after he heard that the beast was on top of the hill he decided to go look. He saw that it was just a man in a parachute and he freed the man of his parachute.

"You'll get back all right. I think so, anyway."
Simon knew that Ralph was gonna be ok, but he wasn't so Sure about him or the others. That is why in chapter seven when he's talking to Ralph he tells Ralph this but leaves out himself and the other boys.

"We used specs...he helped that way"
In chapter two Piggy is being mocked for his weight and asthma. Simon feels bad for Piggy so he stands up for Piggy by reminding the others of how without Piggy's specs they could've never made fire in the first place.

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Three colors that represent simon are green, red, and black. Green for the calm nature of Simon, Red for the blood he shed when he was killed, and black for the uselessness to him from the hunters. When Simon saw the dead parachute man he didn't freak out he untangled the parachute and let him go. this shows how Simon is calm.

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Although Simon was a very quiet boy, he did have strong beliefs. One of those beliefs was the thought that the beast wasn't real. To explain, Simon believed that the beast all the boys were so scared of was just a figment of their imagination. For example, on page 92, Simon tells Ralph, "I don't believe in the beast." this quote shows that Simon did, in fact, believe the beast wasn't real. Ralph was the only person he told this to out of fear he would be made fun of by the other boys.

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Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away.

Mama, ooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine,
Body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.

Mama, ooh (Any way the wind blows),
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.

The reason I chose the first few verses of Bohemian Rhapsody is because of how Simon hallucinated, and I chose the next few verses because the lyrics sort of depicted death, and Simon dies. but the rest of the song didn't make sense so I cut it. I have put a link to the official music video to Bohemian Rhapsody, and in the comments I put a link to a document with the lyrics edited to match Simon's story perfectly.

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Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)

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Simon was a very mysterious yet thoughtful boy. This gave him many good qualities and bad. To begin, some good traits of Simon were that his beliefs were never clouded and he was very nice to the other boys on the island. For example, Simon never thought the beast was real even when all the boys didn't think as much. Also, Simon was always very respectful towards the younger boys on the island. However, Simon did have some bad characteristics. These including: His silence, and how secretive he acted towards the other boys. Silence was a major problem with Simon because he never told the boys on the island that he didn't believed in the beast. This led to him telling then too late and dying. In addition, Simons obscure nature led the boys to pick on him. This was a conflict because if he did tell them about the beast they probably wouldn't believe him or just make fun of him more.