In the first three chapters Jack seems to change personalities from when he was in school to when he landed on the Island, he changed from responsible to trying to be the alpha male. When Jack was in school he was more responsible by helping other kids, but when he landed on the island all his responsibility got thrown out a window since all he wanted to do was a hunt and not get rescued. Jack is the kind of person that would judge people based on their size and appearance ever since he landed on the Island. The reader should see that Jack is an unkind person. The readers should see that Jack has been making fun, and trying to put Piggy down. Piggy was trying to talk to Ralph, then Jack cut into the conversation again, “Then,’ went on Piggy, ‘that boy -I forgot-’ ‘You’re talking too much,” said Jack Merridew. …show more content…
Jack does not like Piggy for some reason, maybe it is the way Piggy looks and acts. But Piggy cannot help that he stutters, has asthma, and wears glasses. Jack is one of those kids that has really high standards for other people, so if the other boys do not meet his expectations then Jack will put them down like he is doing to Piggy. Jack keeps telling Piggy to shut up every time Piggy goes to talk. This might be because Jack feels threatened by Piggy since he is a little bit smarter and is right about making shelters, and getting a list of all the boy's names. When Piggy wants to do the right thing to survive he gets singled out by Jack. Sometimes, to get the boys attention or even to frighten them a little Jack would make a loud noise or even yell. In this case, Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly (Pg. 31). The way the author makes Jack seem so scary it sounds like he is trying to make sure Jack is the leader. The only way for Jack to feel empowered was to slam his knife into a trunk. He was trying to get the boys attention before they went off wandering the
At the end of the book, Jack has become a beast at heart who lusts for blood and blood alone. Jack and Ralph get into an argument for the right to use Piggy's glasses to cook the meat that they hunt. Jack starts to get violent and they start fighting each other for the glasses. In an act of trying to stop the fight, piggy grabs the conch shell to get the attention of everyone and tell them to stop fighting. Soon after the hunters notice Piggy, they push a boulder off a mountain to kill piggy.
Jack was surprised, frightened even, when he realized that he did not hold any position of power. His anger and frustration only washed away when he was put in charge of the hunters, which implies that he needed some kind of authority to be happy. Soon after, Jack disregards the rules about the conch by interrupting Piggy as he was trying to speak. By defying the democratic rules, Jack creates an idea in the boy’s heads that opposition to the newly appointed rules is acceptable. Jack develops as careless and insensitive when he cares more about control and violence than the stability and strength of the society Ralph is attempting to build.
From the moment the boys grouped, Jack reveals his ambition and lack of empathy. Jack uses verbal abuse towards everyone in order to gain control, but especially Piggy. When Piggy tries desperately to be heard while creating the fire, Jack tells
Jack’s savage ways start to change the children's perspective of life which lead to their lost of innocence. Jack has a hostile personality since day one towards others, especially towards piggy. Jack is one of the oldest kids there and is looked up to by the younger kids. Jack’s pugnacious manner is followed by the young impressionable kids.
Furthermore, Jack acts as if he is a dictator, and makes up rules that benefit him. While on the top of the mountain, “the conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain,” “ so you shut up Piggy.” Since Jack doesn’t like the way Piggy is being in power, he tells Piggy to ‘shut up’ since the conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain, whereas the boys talked about the conch being applied everywhere on the island. This shows Jack’s aggressive side and his weakness in being
Jack is one of these persons in the book. He tends to judge Piggy by the aspects in his body that seem to stand out. From the start, it is clear that Jack does not treat Piggy the same way that he treats the rest of the children that were in the island. In some ways Piggy felt scared of Jack and felt like he needed protection from Ralph. His terror can be understood when Golding states, “His voice rose to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses of his face”(Golding 40 ).
Jack’s true characteristics began to reveal themselves little by little through his interactions with others. This is shown throughout the novel. " ‘You’re talking too much…shut up, Fatty’…laughter arose", (p. 21). Here is Jack speaking to Piggy with the group of boys. That indicates that from the beginning, Jack seems to be a bully and has an influence on the other boys.
The conch also shatter after this situation. In conclusion, this sums up on how Jack is shown to be pretty similar to Hitler, based on the fact that he wants to control the group of kids, he makes fun of piggy because he is fat and not perfect, and lastly he starts killing the group of
(Golding 2). Piggy shows he is scared that they are stuck on the island on their own with no adults. You can tell Piggy is scared by the tone of his voice when he replied to Ralph. Thus, showing that Piggy wasn’t the bravest out of all the other boys. Here 's an example of Piggy’s character transforming.
Piggy is fat, brilliant, lacking in social graces, and wears glasses, in other words the outsider on this island. Due to Piggy being such an foreigner, Jack feels that he is above Piggy, and feels better when he causes Piggy pain and sorrow. For example, “‘You’re talking too much,’ said Jack Merridew. ‘Shut up Fatty,’” (21). In this scene you can see power in Piggy’s lack thereof.
How Savagery Takes Over George R.R. Martin once said, “There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.” William Golding demonstrates that every person has savagery inside of him in his novel, Lord of the Flies. In this novel, Golding shows us that civilization is lost and savagery begins when the urge to kill takes hold of us. William Golding’s character development of Jack and motif of weapons help develop his point.
Those were his first words that came out of Jack's mouth after Piggy was murdered showing that he had no sentimental value to him. He knew it was wrong to kill Piggy but all he cares about is himself. As stated in the research of “What’s going on in the teenage brain“ they seem to blame the brain for the consequences adolescents make “While adolescents might tend to be more moody and impulsive — and we now have some reason to believe that this might be reflecting a ‘normal’ part of brain development”.(healthychildren.org) This is practically an excuse that adolescent do not know what they’re doing due to their brains not being “fully developed”(healthychildren.org). Jack knew exactly what he was doing, he even admitted when he said “That’s what you’ll get!”(ch11 Golding) Before that Jack has always wanted the chief position very desperately, knowing his selfishness, brutal self, he would have done anything for it.
Lord of the Flies Jack represents being power hungry and disobedient for the incorrect reasons In the book Lord of the flies, there are several things that connect the earth right now and human expertise. In the book most of the boys go through a phase that they never went through before, through out the book they're going through a "animal-like" phase that I feel the reader does not expect from them. I decided a decision} to concentrate on Jack because I believe that he was a lot more animal-like then the other boys because of that I think he extremely stands out because of his actions and feelings he made the other boys animal-like. I feel this is often necessary as a result of the influence he created on the other boys is quite like
When Jack, Ralph, and Simon go on their expedition they come across a tied up piglet and decide to kill so as Ralph and Simon hold it down, Jack was supposed to slit its throat to let all the blood spill out, but, he paused and the piglet got away. The literal reason for Jack not killing the piglet is that he cannot deal with seeing the piglets blood flush out all over the ground. "There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm" (Golding 31). The concept for why he could not is because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because he could not handle the blood. When the pig gets away, Jack says that he was just choosing a place, decide where to stab him, this foreshadows the death of something when Jack finds the place.
Jack lost his sanity and civility and this changed him in more ways than imaginable. Jack was a natural leader when the boys first came onto the island, but as time continued he became a horrible dictator. On the first day on the island, Ralph and Jack competed for chief of the island. Ralph won. Jack was unhappy with this result, but it didn’t yet throw him into a spiral of craze and anger.