Who Killed Mars Dbq Analysis

He doesn’t make fun of him like the other children. When Simon is murdered by the other children on accident, Ralph is upset and Piggy tries to comfort him, “We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing.” (226). Piggy knows that nobody meant to kill Simon, they just thought he was the beast.

Well I think it was an accident only because well simon was attached in the dark and mistaken as the Beast, by other kids. Simon wasn’t the brightest person out of the kids but i dont think they would of murdered him.I could see how that other people would think iot’s murder but you also got to look at this point,they are traped on a deserted island and really have no hope of being rescued.There are some other points,like how there could’ve been so mental issues or depression

In the novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and the TV series Lost both involve a plane crash that strands characters on a desert island. All are faced with a struggle to survive. Unfortunately, three characters lose this struggle Piggy,Simon,and Mars die. The question is whether or not these characters were murder. Murder can be first or second degree. First degree murder requires hatred and premeditation (DocA), but 2nd degree murder involves and premeditation (Doc A).

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, on an island, without adult supervision, a little boy was murdered. But this case isn’t about that little boy, this case is about a little boy who is still alive and breathing. The prosecution is here to tell you that this 12 year old boy belongs in prison, possibly for up to 10 years, robbing him of his remaining childhood. Ralph has been accused of voluntary manslaughter. He has been accused of, in a fit of passion and fear, speeding Simon’s departure from this world. But if we examine the facts, we know he did not play an active role in the other young man’s death. It has been verified by multiple witnesses, including the now deceased Piggy that Ralph was outside the killing circle. He saw the act but he didn’t

Unlike most the other boys Simon retains civil. Simon displays his maturity through the sacrifices he makes Golding writes, “Someone's got to go across the island and tell Piggy we'll be back after dark." Bill spoke, unbelieving. "Through the forest by himself? Now?" "We can't spare more than one." Simon pushed his way to Ralph's elbow." "I'll go if you like. I don't mind, honestly” (Golding 117). Furthermore, Simon’s death displays the groups true maturity Golding writes, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!” (Golding 152). This scene depicts the group killing Simon out of fear, this displays the island reveals their low maturity because they ignore reason and act in fear. Clearly the Goldings novel displays the island reveals maturity through

After all of the boys had ate their fill of hog the boys began their chant, ¨Kill the beast! Cut His throat! Spill his blood!¨ As Roger was pretending to be the pig the chant suddenly became much more than a game. During their chant, ¨A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe¨(Golding 152) The boys barely seemed affected as they just opened the circle up into a horseshoe and enclosed the beast in the circle. That was not the beast as they believed though. The ¨beast¨ was actually Simon. ¨Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill¨(Golding 152.) As Simon cried out Ralph heard him and Ralph was on the outside of the circle. That means that if Ralph on the outside of the circle could understand him then the boys close to the middle must of been able to hear him. So the boys just wanted to kill something or someone. To the Jack and his band of followers they were to worried about killing then to see what the consequences were. Not only did Jack and his savages murder on of their own they also validated my point. Humans are self-centered and do what is the most pleasing for the time being not what will help them in the future. Those 30 seconds of fun caused regrets for Samneric, Piggy, and Ralph, those actions also probably caused some of

There is no punishment for their actions, therefore allowing the evil inside of them to come out. Jack and Roger both kill Simon with their savagery behavior, and Roger kills Piggy cause of no one can limit his action, and Jack is responsible for the downfall of the boys. Simon is killed on a dark, stormy night after he find out the truth of the beast. The boys of Jack’s tribe had zero attention to good behavior and moral.

No one would think kids could turn to cruelty, but in this book, you can see how human nature turns people against each other. Not all the boys turned to savages, but there were times when there actions were questionable. Take Ralph for example, he was probably one of the least barbaric of them all, yet he still joined in on the murder of Simon. While most boys were oblivious to their descent into savagery, people like Ralph realized this ongoing turn, “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home, Oh God, I want to go home” (Golding 157). The boys change into savagery was not gradual, and even some of the boys, such as Ralph or Simon, noticed this trend, and as young boys it frightened them to realize the fact that they were altering towards inhumanity. As well, the book represents that evil is in all of us. The Beast, which was the main source of evil in the book, was not real. It was only a figment of the boys’ imaginations. While the Beast wasn’t a physical thing it represented

Regardless of the age, gender, and past of the boys prior to and as well as their time spent on the island, the boys should be held accountable for the murder of Piggy and Simon in addition to the attempted murder of Ralph. The murder of the innocent young simon and piggy was wrong and deserve no justification, and no matter where you are in the world the thought and action of killing another human should always be followed by consequences. A reasonable explanation as for why the boys should receive a punishment for their actions is because of the fact that they grew up in society from the day they were born up until the day they boarded that plane. Since they grew up in society, they had been able to observe the way people act in public

I try to believe that it was an accident that Simon was killed, I try to think that he was asking for it by coming in the middle of the night through the jungle, screaming and what not, but I still cant help but think that Jack did kill him on purpose. On the night of Simon’s death, I realised something, that everything started going wrong because of Jack, everything traced back to him, he led everyone into the descent of savagery, it had gone too far. With the barbaric, animalistic murder of Simon, the last fragment of civilised order on the island was stripped away, and savagery took over. Now all of the boys in Jacks group have become inhuman savages. It’s all because of him.

After Simon learns that the beast that the children are afraid of is only is a dead parachutist he attempts to bring his knowledge to the other boys. However, he is instead murdered by them because they mistake him for the beast. During his murder, Golding uses both “ the beast” and Simons’s name interchangeably to show that deep down inside they boys knew that what they were doing was wrong. Golding alludes to Jesus’s death. “ It was crying out against the abominable noise, something about a dead man on a hill.” (136). Pontius Pilate arrested, tried, and sentenced Jesus Christ to death despite the

Being thought as “batty”, “queer”, and “funny”, Simon was treated as an outcast. However, Simon was the only one constantly doing subtle kind acts on the island. Before going off to his Nature Area, he would pick fruit for the kids and feed them. He also defended Piggy, also an outcast ridiculed by everyone. Golding had many allusions that referred to the Christian religion. Simon was referenced to be Jesus. His actions were pure like that of Jesus. He also was the one who thought the beast, an imaginary being, was not an actual monster but the boys themselves. “…maybe it’s only us”, Simon realized the beast was the evil inside the boys (89, Golding). He later climbs the mountain to prove the boys wrong and find the identity of the beast; the beast was a dead parachutist. Excited, Simon runs to where the boys are and decides to tell his discoveries. However, Simon was killed when the boys consciously attacked him. Like Jesus, he was murdered in the midst of the chaos of human

During one of the first assemblies the boys have on the island, a younger boy claims to have seen a beast. Simon is the first to realize that there isn’t an actual beast, and that the beast is actually the evil inside of them, but he is killed before he can tell everybody else. Ralph took part in the killing of Simon, and at this point realizes how dangerous they all are. He says to Piggy, “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.” (Golding 160). This moment is significant for Ralph because though he has committed a barbaric act, he still has enough he still has enough humanity to feel bad a regretful for what he has done.

Ralph, shyly admits that had lost several honourable friends due to the actions made by the group. It was first the death of Simon, when Ralph realized that the group was capable of almost anything. Simon, being mistaken for a ‘beast’, was killed in the boy’s mob mentality to kill whatever they were afraid of. “It was dark no one could see him, it was an accident, I don’t believe anybody meant to harm anyone, but it was still… murder” says Ralph.

The mysteries of the island also had a huge impact on the actions of the boys. Because The tropical island, and England are two totally different environments there was not much know to the boys about the unfamiliar surrounding possessed by the island. The vines that hung from the trees caused the "littluns" to have nightmares because they reminded them of snakes, or "beasties". What was unknown to the boys caused great fear. This fear of the unknown caused differences amongst the boys which lead to their destruction. Since Simon knew that there was no such things as "beasties" He tried to dispel the mysteries of the mountain top, he is brutally murdered, due to the fear rooted in the mysteries of the island.