Lord of the Flies - Jack
In the novel Lord of the Flies, Jack is the character that goes through the most change of anyone throughout the story. He begins the novel as a somewhat arrogant choir boy, who we actually see cry when he is not elected leader of the island. Jack's physical appearance is described as, "Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin and bony; his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled and ugly without silliness" (Golding p.19) Jack's original feelings were pretty much the same as Ralph's, to keep an organized group on the island. Jack says, "I agree with Ralph. We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right things." (p.40) Although we are shown a pretty normal boy, we start to see that Jack can be very mean at the same time. While Piggy is talking, Jack exclaims, "You're talking to much. Shut up fatty." (p.20) Jack is made the leader of the hunting tribe. He and his hunters have a lot of trouble trying to hunt and kill a pig. Coming from a place like England, He has not had any experience in anything like this before. He is struggling to be a hunter, because right now he still has not made
Jack's next step into savagery is when they are all dancing around the fire in celebration. Simon is coming to tell the boys about his vision of the beaste, when Jack and his tribe mistake Simon for the beaste and attack and kill him. He has now killed his first human being, although it seemed not to be completely intensional. Jack is starting to get his followers to think about nothing but hunting now. The boys and Jack continue to hunt animals, but now a new order is taking place. All the boys take a vote to decide who will remain leader, and when Jack is not elected, he says, "I'm not going to play any longer. Not with you." (p.127) Jack is seeing all this trouble they are going through as a game. This shows his immaturity and how he is not respecting anyone or anything now. Jack goes off on his own with many of the older boys and forms his own shelter at the rock. Ralph and Piggy have now lost control over almost everyone. Jack is ruling by complete force. We see him tie and beat up one of the boys, just to set an example. He gets all the boys except Piggy and Ralph to join his group. They are all dressed like savages and Jack now has all his primitive urges coming out. He has no care for anyone and has no feeling for killing like he did earlier when he thoug
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Approximate Word count = 856
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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