At first, Simon is treated with some disdain both by Jack and the other members of the choir. He faints in the heat after their march across the beach wearing their choir "togs," and Jack points out that he is always fainting wherever they go. To these boys, it is a sign of weakness that sets Simon apart already.
But he is accepted and he plays a helpful role in watching after the littluns so Ralph and Jack accept him as a useful member of the group but they don't ever trust him.
Simon appears to be the only boy who never joined a particular tribe; he operated in a space apart. This was partially due to his initial faint and dismissal but also partially due to his ease with moving between the two groups.
Eventually though, he is able to decipher the real meaning of the beast and once he climbs the mountain he knows that the dead pilot is in fact no monster but just a dead pilot. But as he tries to re-enter the group to explain all he has learned, the boys are in the midst of a hunting dance and brutally murder him.
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