LOTF important scene

On pages 152-153 in Lord of the Flies something very heartbreaking and interesting scene. In this scene, the boys kill Simon and accuse him of being the beast. The boys turn into animals in the scene and lose control of all of their rational thoughts and their clarity. "At once, the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, kept on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. We can tell from this quote that the boys have lost all control of their sanity, and all of them have turned into beasts themselves. Also, on pages 152-153, the boys refer to Simon as it, him, and the beast, they never realize or can see that this is Simon until the deed is done.

This scene is very important to the book because Simon was the last bit of pure kindness and good on the island. When he is killed, all that was good has now turned bad. We also can tell here that the boys have really lost it and have turned into beasts themselves. After this point, the boys break apart even more, and everything falls apart. Things were bad before this, but they just get worse after Simon's death. This scene is also important because even Ralph and piggy helped out in the killing, and all of the boys were responsible. None of them felt the urge to stop and none of them realized what they were doing. This is a sign that more tragedy and bad is to come, which it does.