He leaves the camp as he was not voted ‘leader’ and he hunts for food on his own. Therefore the majority of the boys start to leave Ralph and Piggy and join Jack’s team in order to survive. Jack is a cheat, murderer and a bad example of a leader. Therefore it foreshadows the rest of the novel as Jack doesn’t even look after them or use the correct morals. He is just a bully.
Savages William Golding’s Lord of The Flies is about a group of British schoolboys who get stranded on an island. As time passes, they become savage, disorderly and sadistic, all of this without authority. Golding’s main idea behind the novel is based upon his own personal experience from World War II. He expresses that without laws or rules any human being young or old can become savage. When people are out of society and left to their own resources, humans are more likely to return to their inner savagery.
He tends to follow masters who are not noble men in hope to becoming respected and getting a job. However, soon enough he learns not to trust anyone, especially not his masters. His first master and guide was a blind man which seems to be a foreshadow of the way Lazarillo made decisions and chose masters later throughout his life. His masters often did not share his beliefs and values; for example, as much as Lazarillo criticized the church and believed that people bought themselves out of hell, four out of his seven masters served the church. Lazarillo soon learns to be tricky and sneaky in order to survive and get food since his masters would not feed him well.
We tried keeping the signal fire going but we couldn’t. And then you, playing at hunting…”(Golding 178). He is also probably mad because his tribe is all work and no play and he sees that it’s not fair that Jacks tribe is all play and no work. His emotion turns to anger for Jack because the main objective is to get rescued but Jack is too arrogant to want to work to make it happen. Anger is an important emotion because it leads to violence like in the death of Piggy, Simon, and the attempt to kill
After a while, Jack feels that Ralph is not a good leader and he should take over the leadership of the people on the island. Jack then made a huge mistake by not having people by going off to hunt for the group instead of helping the group watch and keep the fire one. “I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who want so hunt when I do can come too” (Golding, 178).
In his novel, Golding shows how a group of British young boys try to survive in an island, after a plane incident, without civilization. Through the character development of Jack, Golding shows how one of the innocent young children on the island is transformed into a savage. Jack is developing into a savage, it is proven though many points in the novel that he is not civilized and he is given characteristics of an animal. Society, the place where there are certain rules and standards to find a person acceptable. However, there is no society on the Island; there are no adults to tell the boys what is acceptable and what is not.
In the early chapters, Jack faces the reality of killing the pig for food, however doesn’t go through with it. This could be because he is not yet far enough removed from civilisation. In the second chapter, we discover that a “beast” might lurk on the island. The older boys dismiss the idea as a nightmare that the littluns imagined. The boys are no longer focusing on the adults rescuing them,
They can never be sure whether they find food, whether they will survive the cold nights in the woods, or whether they are going to be eaten by other people. But despite all that, the man and the boy maintain their humanity. The world around them is nothing like humane- people have turned into cannibals, nature has died and the sunlight cannot be seen through the thick dust. It takes a strong will to stay true to your morals and values where basically everything representing these has gone. ”The Road” gives
2. Ralph criticizes Jack because the “hunters” are clearly not helping in the building of shelters in any way. Jack is spending all of his time attempting to catch a pig and, even though he has yet to be successful, he continues to commit his days to this job. Ralph has noticed
Jack’s inner savagery begins to show almost right away. He wants to be rescued, like all the boys, yet he wants to be able to kill a pig. He wants to be able to get away with killing another living thing without punishment from elders. The fire is another comfort to the boys, and it is a means of a small, yet secure part of civilization, a hope that they could be rescued. “We can help them find us.