The death of Simon, especially the murder of Simon causes Piggy to be in such denial about how "it was an accident- coming in the dark he hadn't no business crawling like that out of the dark.". Piggy can't accept or believe for that matter that he participated in the murder of Simon. Chapter 10 is the chapter that comes right after Simon is killed and Piggy and Ralph feel grief because of it. Chapter 10 also highlites instances where evil is starting to emerge in the book. Jack, has finally become leader of his own tribe and he gets too much power. Jack orders for Wilfred to be tied to a tree for no reason some of his uncontrollable evil started showing when he beats him for no reason. I could also see evil starting to develop in the littl'uns and big'uns in Jack's tribe because they didn't think twice when they noticed what Jack was doing. Roger says "'He's [Wilfred] been' he giggled excitedly ' he's been tied up for hours'". When Roger talks to Ralph, it's almost in joy or pleasure thinking about Wilfred being beaten up. Jack has gotten authority, or power which he overuses when trying to get people to obey him. Also in the chapter, Jack realizes that he is in need of fire if he wants to survive. So he uses his new authority and power to set a new evil on Ralph, Samneric and especially Piggy, by steeling his glasses. Jack and his group invade Ralph's shelter and hurt them until they get the glasses and running off in rejoice. The tension between the two 'tribes' is made in this chapter, and is essentially the turning point to the evilness that is shown in this story.
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