Chapter Nine: A View to a Death

Chapter Nine Summary
Simon wakes up after his encounter with “The lord of the flies”, the rotting pig head on a stick. He see’s the man in the parachute, hanging dead and awkwardly from a tree and realizes everyone had been afraid for no reason. He runs off to find Ralph and the others, only to see smoke and fire in the distance. He runs towards the fire, but as he approaches, he starts to get weak. The boys at the fire, are having a feast. As they finish their food, they start to chant and dance around happily. This is starting to be a show of savagery, even Ralph and Piggy join in. Then here crawls Simon, begging them to listen to him. Some of the kids mistake him for the beast, and they all start to kill him with their bare hands and teeth. The chapter ends in a wild storm, and a cryptic description of Simon’s dead body being swept into the ocean by the tide.