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"This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you'll only meet me down there-so don't try to escape!"
pg. 143

"The beast struggled forward, broke the ring, and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, lept on the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws"
pg. 153


This quotation is the part where Simon is brutally killed by the rest of the kids when he goes down to the beach. What is important about this passage is that it is almost an exact replica of what happens in the Bible when Jesus is brutally killed on the cross. First, he talks to the LOTF, and the LOTF warns him that if he shares his knowledge about the beastie, then he will be killed. He then tries to tell the entire island about the man in the parachute, and he is quickly turned into a martyr by being torn apart.

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