Most pointedly, it has to be atmosphere. Think about the night that Simon is killed. Golding describes a group of boys with painted faces and bodies dancing around a fire while thunder crashes and bolts of lightning sporadically light up the sky. As the boys get more and more worked up, they form rotating circles and being their chant. As the storm gets closer and louder so, too, does their chant. The louder the chant gets, the faster the circle spins. Then just as the boys are worked into a frenzy, a littlun spots a "beast" struggling to get out of the jungle thickness, and, without warning, the mass descends upon Simon.
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