mod-mentality
...oin the dance. As the boys are dancing they notice something dark was crawling out of the forest. The boys misplace this unidentified creature who really is Simon to be the beasti. Simon was running to tell the boys their is no beast and that the beast was a parachooter and a figment of their imagination. The group of savages runs to attack what is thought to be a beast."There were no words,and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws"is what the author referred the unified actions of the mob of boys. As Simon is being beat to death the weather is beginning to get rough. Simon is now dead. The boys finally stop because the rain was pourimg like a cold shower. Simons body now drifts off to sea. It is very ironic that Simon was only trying to tell the boys there is no beast,yet they thought he was the beast. The passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding shows that if people didn't act so savage because of mob-mentality, Simon may have never died. The poem "Picture of Childhood" is also based on mob-mentality and savagery. In this poem the speaker and his friends run to the market because they hear someone is getting beaten up. The boys are shocked and horrified that the adults were beating this man. As the man protests, the mob tramples his body into the mud,and act as if they could not hear him. People start to complain about those not doing enough. The narrator weaps for shame after witnessing t...