SIMON VS.

CHRIST
IN WHAT WAYS ARE THEY SIMILAR?
 WHO IS SIMON?

• SIMON IS A KIND-HEARTED BOY IN LOTF. HE HELPS PIGGY WHEN JACK KNOCKS HIS GLASSES
OFF, HE GIVES FRUIT TO THOSE WHO CANNOT REACH IT THEMSELVES, AND HE IS ARGUABLY
THE ONLY CHARACTER TO KNOW TRUTH.
 WHO IS CHRIST?

• CHRIST, BETTER KNOWN AS JESUS, WAS AND IS GOD’S ONLY SON WHO CAME TO THE
WORLD TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS.
• IN THE BOOK OF JOHN, THE BIBLE IS SAID TO BE THE WORD OF TRUTH. JESUS SPENT MOST OF
HIS LAST YEARS ON EARTH PREACHING THIS NEWS, THEREFORE, TEACHING TRUTH.
 AURA

• SIMON WENT OFF TO HIS SANCTUARY TO BE ALONE. SIMON WAS AN ODD BOY COMPARED
TO THE REST OF THE BOYS. HE WAS DIFFERENT AND INTROVERTED.
• JESUS OFTEN WENT ON HIS OWN AND PRAYED TO HIS FATHER. AT THE TIME, JESUS WAS
KNOWN BY SOME TO BE A STRANGE MAN. THINK ABOUT IT. JESUS WAS THE ONLY MAN
LIVING ON EARTH FREE OF SIN. THAT WOULD MAKE HIM VERY DIFFERENT. ONE COULD EVEN
ARGUE THAT IT WOULD MAKE HIM LONELY SINCE NO ONE COULD RELATE TO HIM.
 DESCRIPTION

• ON PAGE 57, SIMON IS DESCRIBED AS HAVING EYES “SO BRIGHT”. WHEN PIGGY’S GLASSES
FALL OFF, A SYMBOL OF VISION AND TRUTH, SIMON HELPS HIM GET THEM BACK, RE-
ESTABLISHING THIS TRUTH.
• IN BOTH REVELATION 1:14 AND 19:12, JOHN, THE WRITER OF THE BOOK, DESCRIBES JESUS’
EYES AS “BLAZING FIRE”. JESUS TAUGHT IN SYNAGOGUES AND THE STREETS, WORKING HARD
TO ESTABLISH THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD, ESPECIALLY WITH PEOPLE WHO NEEDED IT MOST.
 THE DEVIL

• THE PIG’S HEAD SPOKE LIES TO SIMON ON A MOUNTAINTOP, MAKING HIM HALLUCINATE AND
HAVE A SEIZURE
• IN MATTHEW, JESUS IS VISITED BY SATAN IN THE DESERT, WHICH AT ONE POINT WAS A “HIGH
PLACE”. SATAN TEMPTS HIM THAT IF HE CHOOSES TO FOLLOW OR BOW TO HIM, JESUS
WOULD BE GIVEN LAND, POWER, ETC.
• BOTH SIMON AND JESUS DEALT WITH AN EVIL THAT LED TO A DOWNFALL OF SOME SORT
(SIMON’S DEATH, JESUS’ CRUCIFIXION)
 SETTING

• PATHETIC FALLACY: WHEN SIMON IS KILLED, A STORM RAGES OVER. JUST LIKE WHEN THE
HORSES WENT WILD IN MACBETH WHEN DUNCAN WAS MURDERED. THIS SCENE REPRESENTS
THE INNOCENCE OF SIMON’S BLOOD.
• WHEN JESUS SPOKE “IT IS FINISHED” AND TOOK HIS LAST BREATH ON THE CROSS, A STORM
BREWED OVER GOLGOTHA. IT IS WRITTEN THAT AT THIS POINT, SOME OF THE SOLDIERS THAT
PARTICIPATED IN JESUS’ MURDER REALIZED THAT HE WAS AN INNOCENT MAN AND INDEED THE
SON OF GOD.
 OTHERS’ REACTION

• SIMON DOESN’T GET TO SHARE THE TRUTH BECAUSE THE OTHERS WERE NOT READY TO
ACCEPT NOR UNDERSTAND IT
• THE PHARISEES WEREN’T READY TO ACCEPT JESUS’ TEACHING; THEY JUST WANTED HIM DEAD
 END RESULT

• SIMON REALIZES THE TRUTH OF THE BEAST AND WHO HE REALLY IS. HE IS THE ONLY CHARACTER
WHO COMES TO THIS TRUTH. HE WANTS TO SHARE IT BUT IT ISN’T ACCEPTED NOR UNDERSTOOD,
LEADING TO HIS DEATH
• WE SEE THIS PARALLEL WITH JESUS. HE TRIED SPREADING THE TRUTH THROUGH PARABLES AND THE
WORD OF GOD, BUT THE PHARISEES AND CHIEF PRIESTS HAD HIM KILLED BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED
HE WAS A FALSE TEACHER
• SIMON WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE BEAST, JESUS WAS BELIEVED TO BE A FALSE TEACHER? BOTH WERE
SEEN AS EVIL, YET BOTH WERE PURE.
• SEE THE RESEMBLANCE?