Answer:
A. Helpful and friendly, but strange.
Explanation:
Simon symbolizes goodness. He is a gentle-hearted person. He takes the time to feed the littluns in Lord of the Flies. Simon's strange encounter was with the pig head, when he was having hallucinations. The pig head just represented the evil that was manifesting within everyone on the island.
B He rides the subway at 8.00am
The description of the neighborhood, it describes a cold, worn-down, neighborhood, that could symbolize a prison, based on the first sentence that had to do with setting people free. The neighborhood is decribed as stony and "imperturbable" so it could also mean that the school symbolizes freedom and the neighborhood means imprisonment, or capture. Of course, this is only based off f what I have just read, I haven't actually ever read the book.
