Simon

Pre-novel
Before Simon got stuck on the island he was a choir boy, like Roger and Jack. You never really read anything else about before he got stuck on the island.

Novel
At the beginning of the book Simon was with the rest of the choir boys. So when they were moving around the island before the conch was blown Simon and them saw a feild of pigs. But then the Conch was blown and they went to the beach with the rest of the boys. Simon didn't really say much during the assembly. When Ralph told everyone that they need to build shelters Simon was the only older boy that actually helped him build them.

Once Simon started to wonder into the jungle without anyone else he started to change. He started to become different, he wasn't just dehydrated he had epilepsy. One night while on the island they heard a dog fight in the sky, and didn't know what it was, the pilot that died came down and crashed on the island. The boys that went up the mountain saw the dead body and assumed it was the beast. Simon was the first to realize it was not. One night while Jack and the others were having a feast at Castle Rock Simon was still in the jungle. While in the jungle he stumbled the pig head on the stick that Jack and the rest of the hunters put on the stick. And he started to hallucinate about the beast being the pig head, and talking to him, it said that it was the lord of the flies and that the beast didn't exist. It was just inside of them. And that the pilot was just some dead man, then Simon went up the mountain to the pilot and discovered that was right. When he went to tell the other boys that the beast wasn't real he got brutally murdered by them, for no reason. The next morning Piggy, Ralph, Sam, and Eric pushed his dead body of into the ocean.