Later they end up splitting into two separate groups. Jack and most of the boys go off to another part of the island, while Ralph, Piggy, Simon, Sam, Eric, and the littleuns stay. Jack and the others host a feast and invite the others to join. For the feast the murder a mother pig by stabbing her, and shoving a spear up her. This is extremely terrible and animalistic of them to do.
Piggy was killed during a fight between the two gangs, one of the members known as roger pushed the rock on top of Piggy. “The rock stuck Piggy a glancing bow from chin knee...traveled through the air sideways from the rock... Fell forty feet and landed on his back. His head opened and came and turned red”. The death of a fellow companion should have at least brought some civilization to the island but since the boys degenerated to savages this wasn’t the case. The boys’ savage show that they are savages by how the pigs are killed.
When is loses its power, chaos occurs. For example when Jack states, “And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island−” (Golding, 166). They have an argument and begin a chant. Jack leads the chant and Simon crawls out of the forest to be brutally murdered by the boys. This shows that when a once huge symbolism of power loses its significance, mayhem takes place.
Roger throwing the stones at Henry is a foreshadow of him launching the boulder at piggy. The out of control fir on the mountain in chapter 2 foreshadows the entire island burning when the fire gets out of control in chapter 12. Personification “ the heat hit him” p. 10. - “ sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon P. 14. “ Creepers shivered p. 86 Irony Verbal irony- in lord of the flies when piggy says “ acting like a crowd of kids”!
In this case, “That was murder.” (pg.156) During this incident evil has taken over the boys and eliminated all if any of the humanity on the island. He took it upon himself to kill one of the smartest boys on the island to show his strength and loyalty towards his leadership. Jack quickly transforms from being describes as just a Milton choir director over into a aggressive, pig hunting ruler over a group of boys trying to survive
Towards the conclusion of the novel, Piggy, Ralph, and Samneric, go up to Jack’s tribe to get Piggy’s glasses back in a civilized manner, but fighting begins and, “Jack had backed right against the tribe and they were a solid mass of menace that bristled with spears.”(180) This scenario depicts the sudden decline of and almost complete loss of civilization. The tribe has their war paint on and assume fighting position instead of trying to talk the situation out, like civilized people. The once lovely, little British boys turn almost totally savage. Once the boys transform to complete savages, Ralph will have no one to help him. Piggy dies and moments after Piggy’s death, Jack, “began screaming wildly.
The Lord of the flies had unrealistic ending when a navy officer, deux ex machina, saves the boys from the island. In chapter 12, Jacks tribe is hunting Ralph down ready to kill him, but just when we begin to start doubting his survival, a military figure finds him. Throughout the novel there has been many references to military “ like a bomb” (46) the reason they make reference to the military is because war is also savage and uncivilized just like the boys. At the beginning of the novel Ralph proposes to make a fire so that boats passing by would come to save them “ if a ship comes near the island they may not notice us(..) We must make a fire” (38). In the final chapter the hazard uncontrolled fire that Jacks hunters made to kill Ralph is what led to their survival “we saw your smoke” (201).
He starts out wanting to help and contribute to the group, and by the end of the book, he slowly changes for the worse. He transitions into a demigod. His way of behaving is neither disruptive nor violent at the beginning of the book, but he does show the desire to hunt and kill a pig. The first time Jack is presented with killing a pig he couldn’t, “because of the enormity of the knife and descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.” (P. 27) Later on, he says, “We’ll get food, hunt, catch things...until they fetch us.” (P. 30) This shows that he cares, and wants to help and contribute to the group.
With his anger, he started to hunt pigs. Once he started hunting pigs, Jack become overly preoccupy during hunting that Jack thought of the idea that the kids should wear face paint of the pigs blood. When the kids had done the face painting with him, Jack became more powerful with hunting pigs for food that it turned everyone against Ralph. So Jack had started his own tribe with all the boys. When Jack had made the tribe, he said to the boys before hunting, “Kill the beast!
In addition, at the end of the novel Jack uses fire to try to kill Ralph. Jack has turned violent. Jack thinks he will be the leader in the end. However, the fire was the very thing that caused the boys to be rescued and neither Ralph nor Jack turned out to be the