# Simon Meron — The Adventurous Simplicissimus character guide

> Simon Meron in The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0143-xix-how-simplicissimus-and-a-carpenter-escaped-from-a-shipwreck-with-their-lives-and-were-thereafter-provided-with-a-land-of-their-own

## Who they are

A carpenter who is shipwrecked with Simplicissimus and becomes his companion.

## In the story

### [XXI: How They Thereafter Kept House Together and How They Set to Work](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/xxi-how-they-thereafter-kept-house-together-and-how-they-set-to-work)

Confesses his sinful intent to Simplicissimus, repents, and builds three crosses as an act of penance.

### [XXII: Further Sequel of the Above Story, and How Simon Meron Left the Island and This Life, and How Simplicissimus Remained the Sole Lord of the Island](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/xxii-further-sequel-of-the-above-story-and-how-simon-meron-left-the-island-and-this-life-and-how-simplicissimus-remained-the-sole-lord-of-the-island)

Helps establish the island's household, invents methods for making salt and pottery, but dies from excessive drinking of palm wine.

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