Simon - "He was a small, skinny boy, his chin pointed, and his eyes so bright they had deceived Ralph into thinking him delightfully gay and wicked. The coarse mop of black hair was long and swung down, almost concealing a low, broad forehead... [he was] Always darkish in color..." p. 2Simon is described as a very shy boy who cannot find it bearable to speak in front of the assembly. The boys all think that hes batty because he likes to be by himself. Simon is the only boy who discovers what the Beast truly is. He learns this when he "talks with the Lord of the Flies. When he tries to tell the rest of the children he is mistaken as the Beast and beaten to death. Golding made Simon the "Christ" figure in the novel by having Simon belive in no evil and assuring Ralph that he would make it alive.Jack - "Inside the floating cloak he was thin and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger." p. 20Jack is described as some sort of evil thing that is looking for trouble. From the start of the novel he does not like following rules of any kind. He only wants to hunt and have a good time. Golding uses Jack and his tribe as examples of the Beast. In the beginning of the story Jack, still conditioned by the previous society he had been apart of, could not kill the pig that was caught in the brush. As the story goes on, he becomes less and less attached to any form of society. Near the end, he feels no shame about the deaths of Simon and Piggy, or his attempt to kill Ralph.Ralph - "He was old enough, twelve yares and a few month, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescencence to have made him akward. You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about...
