Jack In William Golding's Of Mice And Men

Jack respects Ralph as a leader and another alpha, however deems himself the higher qualified to lead the group; bringing forth a vote for a chief. However, the choir boy followers weren’t strong enough in numbers to counter the seemingly endless supply of little kids that voted for Ralph. After this unexpected result, Jack develops an instant grudge towards his only competition for power. Ralph begins to form a democratic society solely focused on rescue; yet jack has other plans in agenda. Under Ralph’s seemingly boring command, Jack develops other outputs for his primal necessity of dominance. Jack begins focusing on the task of hunting animals and finding weaker beings to prey on. Jack even blatantly leaves the rescue fire to chase after a pig; had he not have done so, the group could have possibly been rescued by the boat passing by during the fire’s absence. Once Jack finally has enough of going in circles with Ralph, he makes the decision to shake off Ralph’s influence and create his own niche. Within Jack’s tribe, lifestyle is greatly different to that of one designed by Ralph. Jack and his followers seemingly devolve into primal beings, as Jack gets his fill of power. Control over others was all that Jack longed for, with a crazed and burning

If you remember earlier in the book, Jack was told by Ralph to keep the signal fire burning.But instead of thinking of the whole group like a good chief would, He only thought about himself and what he wanted to do. “Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him.” (Golding 69). This quote helps show that Jack is not a good leader. He cares more about what he wants than what the whole group wants making him the most irresponsible character in the book. With Ralph actually being the most responsible character in the book ,He is definitely the rightful chief but as we later learn, the right chief doesn't always get picked. Another example of Jack not being responsible as a leader was when the circle chant took place. “All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife. Behind him was Roger, fighting to get close. The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt.”(Golding 114). This quote explains that if Jack were a proper leader he would not have let poor Robert almost get killed. Jack didn't even try to stop the feeding frenzy that was the hunters. In conclusion, with Jack's new power He does not take responsibility and is not a proper leader and is a great danger to many of the young people on the

In the beginning, there was one tribe led by their elected leader Ralph. When Jack and Ralph have different opinions on what is most important about survival, two different, yet similar tribes emerge from the existing one. Both of the tribes have different characteristics, different jobs they perform on a daily basis, and different leaders who have separate views and opinions. Though they differ in more ways than one, both tribes share at least one thing in common, both are eager to be rescued, and willing to do most anything to survive.

The path towards their prime fishing spot has been shut down and covered with a bunch of weeds. And for the first time in their tri-annual camping trip history, Wayne wins the card game around the fire. All these events make Jack realize that this tradition has changed and might be over. From the beginning to the end of the episode Jack’s view on the trip changes drastically. He goes from saying, “Why can’t we get along like we use to?” to “Who thought of this stupid trip anyway?” This shows that at first Jack tries to resist change but in the end reality hits him, and he realizes the he must move on.

Even though Jack demonstrated his leadership qualities when proposing a rescue plan to the ‘tribe’, and by accepting Ralph’s election to lead the group, something he wanted for himself, he eventually turns into a savage through killing a pig. This incident gives him a sense of power realizing that he can act with impunity without consequences. Wanting to hunt and kill pigs turned into a priority, eliminating the need to be

If you had been alone in the jungle, with the thought that something might be out there to get you, the sound of shelter, protection and food sounds very appealing. Which is a strategy jack uses in order to gain more followers in his group. These are adult promises which appeal to the children. They are afraid that if they do not join his group, they will suffer. But before he gets to making his own group, he weakens Ralph’s ability to create a sense a security by saying,”’He’s not a hunter. He’d never have got us meat. He isn’t perfect, and we don’t know anything about him’” (83) Jack says this to make a point that Ralph isn’t fit to lead the group, he is creating fear in the children's minds that they won't be safe under Ralph’s watch. Once Jack has the attention of some of the children and gained their loyalty he sets rules in place. “‘We’ll hunt. I’m going to be chief. [...] And about the beast. [...] Forget the beast. And another thing. We shan't dream so much down here.’” (133) At that point it seems as if jack is trying to eliminate some of that fear from the kids to build strong hunters on his side. The children are afraid. Once jack degrades Ralph in front of them, they are afraid of inadequate safety, which they now feel that jack can provide. Fear is evident in the children at this point in the

At the start everyone was their own person, with their own thoughts and beliefs, but that all changed rapidly. The boys still has their common sense in the beginning and votes Ralph as chief. This infuriated Jack because he believes he should be chief. Throughout the book Jack turns the hunters and boys into savages and makes the “innocent” boys believe killing is right. “I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too.” (127). Jack leaves the group and eventually convinces boys to join his tribe and break away from Ralph and his authority. He manipulates the boys of his tribe and treats them unfairly, and at the beginning of the book none of the boys would have taken that because they did understand right from wrong. Jack made them believe murder was okay, Simon was the beast, and Ralph was their biggest threat. Jack is a prime representation of how the boys developed power and mind changing abilities, because the boys didn’t believe in their opinions, thoughts, and morals anymore they believed in

This quote shows Jack's change over the short time that he was surviving in the island. At this point in the book, Jack is gradually losing his innocence and savagery appears. Jack has lost all compassion and care for the people on the island and what he was doing prior to the island. Jack wears the mask to hide morals and old civilization and reveals greed and savagery. When he wears the mask it makes him free from the rules of old society, and he definitely likes what he has started to become. Jack makes it seem as if the actions he does is not him but the mask, the mask nearly liberates Jack from all responsibility.He also uses the mask to conceal the fear that he has during each situation. Golding shows how people in society are not afraid

By the end of the novel, Jack has become a full blown barbarian. He is so caught up in killing pigs that he no longer listens to Ralph. He tries to become chief again and fails. Because of that, he starts his own tribe on the other side of the island where all they do is hunt pigs. The boys that follow him are transformed into the savage that he is. “Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her…Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. The spear moved forward inch by inch… [t]hen Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands.” Jack and his followers were demoralized and tainted

They are choosing who they want to be chief and Jack says, “ I ought to be chief, because I'm chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.” (22) From the beginning of the book Jack has always wanted to hold authority. He thinks that because he once was the leader of the choir and because he was older than the others that he should be the one to lead the tribe to get rescued. When Jack loses the election he does anything he can to gain authority. Jack leaves the big tribe after he had an argument with Ralph and he is talking to who went with him and says, “We’ll hunt. I'm going to be chief” (133). When Jack leaves the main tribe he goes to form his own tribe with Simon and Roger. Since he left he has become a dictator and doesn't allow anyone to become leader because he is thirsty for authority. He gives out orders and the other two follow them leading to their group getting as much meat as they

Ralph keeps telling Jack that he is chief and he can’t do anything about it. Jack managed most of Ralph’s tribe to switch tribes. Jack and his tribe wants to kill the beast in the mountains. Later

What do you think you would do if you were stranded on an island with a bunch of strangers? How would you react and what would be your first instinct? Well in the novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding we follow a group of young British boys whose plane crashes and who have to figure out how to survive without any adults. They have to figure out how to work together not only to be rescued but also to survive. There is a lot of tension that grows between the boys and eventually reaches a point where it explodes.

Anyone reading the end of the novel will generate a profound loathing for Jack who is totally paranoid and always feeds misinformation to his tribe, a typical practice of dictatorships to control the collective thinking by controlling the information that is disseminated. When Jack first loses in the voting of chief, “The circle of boys broke into applause. Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification” (Golding 19). His face falls and he feels ashamed, especially when he sees other boys are applauding and even his own choir is applauding. His endless desire for power is ignited at that moment.

Jack insists that since Ralph had never hunted and provided meat for the boy’s he shouldn’t be chief; the other boy’s disagree, and, upset that he has not proven himself to the boys, says, "I'm not going to play any longer. Not with you… I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too" (144). Jack then walks off, and many of the boys follow him and leave Ralph behind; in doing this, Jack takes a good portion of Ralph’s tribe, as well as much of Ralph’s dignity as a chief. Later, Jack names himself chief of the other group of boys. He uses his power to make rules, all of which establish that Jack’s side of the island is different from Ralph’s; "We'll hunt. I'm going to be chief… I say this. We aren't going to bother about the beast… And another thing. We shan't dream so much down here. This is near the end of the island" (146). In his anger, Jack created a society based on what children want instead of what adults need, which Ralph had. Jack has made himself the opposite of Ralph out of

Jack sets his views straight as he believes that hunting is good enough for a tribe to live off. He also tries to encourage others this way by bringing up fun in hunting, thus taking them away from the boring "working life" that Ralph has to offer. In the quote itself, Jack states that the others can go when he wants to go. This may be a foreshadow of the type of leader he is, and what he may do. The quote also informs the reader that Jack has set his priorities straight, and that he