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Peyton Farquhar's death cannot be revealed until the end of the story because so much of the story— almost the entirety of part 3—happens in the moment just before his neck snaps in the noose.
Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill… The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face.
They serve as a reminder of death intruding onto life and suggest that Farquhar is madly latching onto as much of the living world as possible before his certain demise. Once the rope snaps taut, signs of Farquhar’s death become more directly intrusive.
That was Simon...That was murder. Ralph is the only character to admit that he helped kill Simon in Chapter 10, while Samneric and Piggy prefer to lie and make up excuses. Ralph acknowleges that the boys have killed Simon, one of their own, not the imaginary beast they believed they were attacking.
He even convinces Liz Morden to fight harder to prove her innocence when she’s sentenced to death for stealing. In one of the play’s final scenes, Ralph finds Mary rehearsing on the beach and joins her by reciting the lines of her character’s lover.
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Ralph Farquhar (born September 19, 1951) is an American film and television producer and screenwriter. He is the co-creator of three sitcoms set in South Central, Los Angeles, California: [1] the Fox sitcom South Central, and, with Sara Finney-Johnson and Vida Spears, the UPN sitcoms Moesha, starring Brandy, [2] and its spinoff The Parkers ...
