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References to various religions in novels are made to help the author illustrate to the reader the situation in which he has placed his characters. In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses biblical allusion to enhance the reader's perspective on the story. ....

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.... until they are satisfied, Simon recreates the event in which Christ multiplied the loaves and fishes to feed the poor until they were contented. After this, Simon disappears from the others to be alone and begins to have feelings that something is wrong. He starts to have premonitions of the Beast: The Lord of the Flies. When the boys set off in a party to find the Beast on the mountain, Simon starts to see a vision of what they will find. Simon . . . felt a flicker of incredulity -- a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was no fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of t ....