Then the littluns start to have nightmares ‘’they talk and scream’’ in there sleep and Ralph presumed that it was because of the beastie.
Jack then confesses that he to has a bad feeling when he is in the woods‘’ it can feel as if your not hunting but being hunted ‘’ jack then try’s to act cool by saying things like it was just a feeling but not real this shows he believes and is scared of the beast how ever little but does not want to admit it and show a signs of weakness .
The littluns are still having there nightmares later in the novel ‘’untold terrors in the night’’ piggy explains ‘’no beast not with claws anyway’’ un less they are ‘’frightened of people’’ then a littluns brings the thought that ‘’the beast comes out of the sea’’ they all can believe this as huge creatures live in the sea one child says ‘’my dad says loads of unknown creatures live in the sea’’ then one boy says ‘’the beast is a goast’’ this shows the children do not know what the beast is so they try to come up with some explanation.
Ralph wants a adult to come but his wish is answered with a twist a dead parachutist lands on the rocks on the mounting and when the wind blows the parachutist is pulled to his feet and appears to look over the island. Sam and Eric see the man while they are attending to the fire and run to Ralph ‘’we saw the beast’’ then there fears and imaginations start to show ‘’the beast followed us-nearly touched me’’ this shows that the beast is in the boys heads and is not real the whole group go on a search for the beast to no avail.
Later on Ralph believes in the beast ‘’the thing sits up there’’ he is afraid of it as he tells his group to watch out for it.
‘’and soon he under stood’’ Simon realises that the beast is in there heads then sees the parachutist and fully understands. Then runs off to tell the others the news that the beast is not real he clambers out of the forest in the shadows ‘’a thing was crawling out of the forest’’ the hunters kill Simon while he is ‘’screaming’’ about the man on the mountain side then he dies
‘’the beast lay still’’ and Simon was dead and the tide began to sweep the body away the innocence and the truth were gone for ever ‘’Simons dead body moved out to sea.’’
This shows the beast is a imagination of the boys brought to life by there fears and develops as there fears increase and is used as a way of hiding the evil in them after the hunters kill Simon jack says that the beast did it so he can see himself as a good person when he is evil the fact that the beast is given a physical form in the book increases the boys fears so the evil of the beast increases and the boys see it more often.
