Ralph Simon and Jack scrambled down from the top of the mountain and made their way under the trees, on the their way back to rejoin the rest of the boys. This is where they found the candle bushes or candle buds. It happens in chapter 1: the Sound of the Shell at the bottom of page 32 and start of page 33 in my edition.
green and candle like
Simon describes the unusual buds as green candle-like.
Piggy is the one who names the blossoms candle buds in "Lord of the Flies." He does so in Chapter 2 of the novel.
A thicket is simply a dense and impenetrable patch of bushes or shrubs.
In the bushes picking fruit were they could reach it easily.
Too quote directly from the book...Here they paused and examined the bushes around them curiously. Simon spoke first. "Like candles. Candle bushes. Candle buds." Ralph and Jack dismiss the bushes and Ralph actually says, "You couldn't light them... They just look like candles." This entire episode is an allusion to a passage from the book "The Coral Island." In that book the boys named Jack, Ralph (Golding reused those names deliberately) and Peterkin also find "Candle buds." The difference being that the boy called Jack, in The Coral island, is a well read boy who informs his companions that the nuts from this bush can be dried out and threaded onto a sting where they will burn when lit, just like real candles.
Orlando Bloom plays Legolas, the elf in the movie, The Lord Of The Rings.
Orlando Bloom played Legolas, an elf.
Too quote directly from the book...Here they paused and examined the bushes around them curiously. Simon spoke first. "Like candles. Candle bushes. Candle buds." Ralph and Jack dismiss the bushes and Ralph actually says, "You couldn't light them... They just look like candles." This entire episode is an allusion to a passage from the book "The Coral Island." In that book the boys named Jack, Ralph (Golding reused those names deliberately) and Peterkin also find "Candle buds." The difference being that the boy called Jack, in The Coral island, is a well read boy who informs his companions that the nuts from this bush can be dried out and threaded onto a sting where they will burn when lit, just like real candles.
Matt Bloom
How is Simon from lord of the flies?
In "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, the first boy to disappear is a littlun. He is mistakenly reported as missing when the boys are attempting to count all the littluns but simply hid in the bushes. This incident foreshadows the increasing chaos and disorganization among the boys as they struggle to maintain order on the island.