Lord Of The Flies Jack Character Analysis

Jack’s Changes: The Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies, by William Golding is a novel set during an atomic war, where on an island where young English school boys are stranded. The longer they stay on the island without adults, the more savage-like they become. One character, an older boy Jack is specifically impacted by the island setting, in a negative way. While on the island, Jack disobeys rules for his own pleasure in hunting, he leads his hunters on a brutal attack of a nursing sow. He then leaves the larger group to become a “dictator” of his own tribe of savages, even leading an eventual attack against another boy on the island.
In the beginning of the book Jack is still good and still follows the rules. At first he is ready to help in establishing order for all the boys on the island. He is actually the one who suggests having rules at the very first meeting of all the boys. At one point he even specifically says “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.” (42) Which is an ironic quote because of all the ways that he changes while living on this island.
Jack’s obsession with hunting causes many problems on the island. His job of hunting begins to become the only thing he focuses on doing. He spent all his time taking his group hunting instead of helping with other important tasks on the island, such as building huts and keeping the signal fire