Simon's behavior in chapter 3 has some rough correspondence with the life of Christ. When Simon pulls fruit from the trees to fill "the endless outstretched hands" of the littluns, it is as if Christ is performing a miracle of feeding the multitudes. After he feeds the others, Simon retreats, alone, to a sanctuary he has found for himself that seems lit from within with "candle-buds." His selflessness, introspection, and spirituality in this chapter and the book overall loosely parallel Christ wandering for forty days in the desert and being faced with temptations. Like Christ, Simon declines eating food (the fruit), vying for power (like Ralph and Jack), and going to the mountaintop (where the beast is thought to be). Like Christ, Simon is brutally killed. This chapter builds the elaborate metaphor of Simon's perhaps unwitting emulation of Christ and prefigures the boys' destruction of him.
In chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies, called "Huts on the Beach," we can see a metaphor in the sentence "They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate." The "they" in this quote is referring to Jack and Ralph.
First things first, we know this is a metaphor because the narrator is comparing the boys to continents and making this comparison without using "like" or "as."
This is a particularly effective metaphor because it works on multiple levels. Continents are enormous, so the sentiment given here is that this terrible experience is causing the boys to have an enormous amount of new thoughts and feelings— enough to fill a continent. Generally speaking, continents are also separated and far apart from one another. We know from their conversations that Jack and Ralph have different priorities and aren't getting along, but this metaphor really emphasizes the idea that the two boys are on opposite wavelengths, thinking and feeling so differently from one another that trying to communicate is about as effective as trying to shout to someone from a different continent.
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