1. Do some research and try to come up with a description of what it means to be a good person?
A good person is someone takes time out of their hands to help others, but not just being overly nice, but being the better person to help them with their mistakes and by standing up. A good person will try to fulfill the morally right aspects of life.
2. How does spirituality lend itself to the pursuit of being a good person?
I feel like the way spirituality goes hand in hand with being good the fact that it has the attribute of being concerned and having that compassion with someone’s spirit which eventually will help with helping.
3. What are saintly qualities?
Being generous, kind, compassionate, wise, and selfless.
4. Find three passages from Chapters 1-6 that highlight Simon’s good/spiritual/saintly qualities. Describe how they illustrate Simon’s character?
“‘My specs!’ He went crouching and feeling over the rocks but Simon, who got there first, found them for him.”
– This passage illustrates how he was willing to help another person out.
“[Simon saw] the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.”
– Simon doesn’t join in on the violence with the pig. Instead, he has a sense of realization that we’re beasts, which showcases his wisdom.
“Like candles. Candle bushes. Candle buds.”
– Simon admires the beauty of the strange bushes.
5. Answer the following question in a paragraph: How do Simon’s behavior and his treatment by the other boys so far sit into the larger allegory of the story this far?
Simon represents peace in the midst of this chaos. With the conflict and issues regarding Jack and Ralph, the beastie, littleuns and biguns, Simon provides the sense of peace and calm through it all. Which fits into the larger allegory, because Simon represents Religion which is where people find their peace in.
ELISHA SERVANO 