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Lord of The Flies

Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness

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The most scary scene in the book was when Jack beheaded the pig and put the head on a stick. He took his hunting knife and he sliced little by little the pigs neck. Jack separated the pig and had some hunters take the body for the meat. Then he had Roger sharpen a spear at both ends and stuck one end into the ground. Jack then lifted the pigs head and put it on the stick. A bunch of flies gathered around it and it became the Lord of The Flies. They left the gift for the beast so that the beast wouldn't hunt them. Jack believed that if you give the beast food then it would not take care of them. What they had not know was that in fact that Simon was watching them. Later the pigs head started talking to Simon. This was the scariest chapter of any book I ever read. And I read a lot of books.

I think that Jack Merridew killed Simon. If he hadn't split up from the group nothing would have gone wrong. Not only this he lead and told the group to kill the “beast” which was as we know Simon. He also made the group very exited after the killing of the pig.

“Him! Him!”

The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest.

This shows that Jack in fact murdered Simon. This leads to the fact that everyone has a dark side, some more than others.