Jack Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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The Evil within Us All humans have some evil inside of them, waiting for the right moment to appear out of the person they are inside of. William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, writes to have us know that evil lurks within every person. Jack changes throughout the story, symbolizing the evil everyone could posses. When we first start, Jack was known for the choir boy who wanted to hunt. Although, when they were on the very first hunt, he was frozen and did not cut the pig’s throat. Jack made excuses of why he did not do it. He said, “I was choosing a place; I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him.” Even though Jack made those excuses, both Simon and Ralph knew why he couldn’t do it; “because of the thought of the…show more content…
He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too.” Being angered because Jack’s tribe stole Piggy’s spectacles and because no one was listening, Piggy goes off to Jack’s side of the island with Ralph and the twins to show who’s boss around here and to retrieve his glasses. Once arriving there, Jack and Ralph have a mini battle. As this goes on, Roger tries to interfere, and ends up killing Piggy with an extremely large boulder. Piggy’s death signifies that all intelligence on the island has ended. After capturing Ralph and gaining two “new” members into the tribe, they celebrate. During their celebration, Simon suddenly appears to inform the others that there is no beast. Due to his fatigue, Simon staggers over causing everyone to think he is the beast. Once seeing this “horrifying” object, they all start to attack him and end up killing and throwing his dead body into the sea. Since they killed Piggy and Simon, this completely shows how their inner evil has taken over them by removing spirituality and intelligence. After killing Simon and Piggy, the tribes’ next victim is Ralph. This was going to be their final hunt. Ultimately Jack symbolizes the evil within everyone. Throughout the story, Jack progresses into and evil person and also “converts” the others that are around him into evil beings as
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