How Does Lord Of The Flies Change In Chapter 4

In the very first chapter of the book, he starts to make fun of Piggy to make other laugh. He says, “You’re talking too much, shut up, Fatty” (Golding 27). This can be interpreted as him making fun of the flaws of others to cover his own. Jack’s personality remains consistent in the first few chapters. This is because Jack’s physiological needs are satisfied. He feeds on meat and fruit, has sufficient water, a cozy, warm fire, and shelters to keep safe in. However as the Lord of the Flies continues, the reader is able to see Jack’s behavior worsen as his demand for love, belongingness and esteem grow. Jack wants to be interesting enough to attract the attention of others. He desires to establish personal achievement, self-respect, and status, but cannot strive for these elements without receiving respect and affection from others. He hunts because he feels in unison with a group of people, helping him sense feelings of inclusion, respect and appreciation. Jack lies to the boys about the beastie because he wants the boys to trust him and be friends with him. He tries to lure the boys onto his side by saying things like “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong—we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat—!” (Golding

In this moment Jack and the hunters have killed their first pig, and they were excited to tell everyone as they were chanting “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood (69).” Jack’s excitement went away when Ralph told him that a boat passed away and that he and his hunters were suppose to keep the fire going, but they did not. Jack did not do his part of the job to being rescued by not keeping up with the fire as he instead went to go hunt. When Piggy held Jack responsible for the fire, they began to argue and Jack punched Piggy in the stomach and smacked Piggy in the head. Piggy’s glasses went flying and one of his lenses broke. Jack apologizes about the fire, but he does not apologize to Piggy for breaking his glasses. This is significant

In this quote, the reader is shown to what extent Jack has been affected by living on the island. He’s been affected to the point that he is now described in words that would normally describe an animal. You would never think of a 12 year old boy having a “bloodthirsty snarl” as oppose to the innocent giggle or chuckle of a young child. He is literally becoming “one with his prey.” Along with some of the other boys, he has lost his morals, innocence, necessity for rules and order and turned into a bloodthirsty monster capable of killing, like he and the other boys killed Simon.

“Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” Jack was one the older kids on the island. He was in charge of the choir group when the boys first got the island. Instead he got addicted to killing pigs. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, jack was symbolic of evil and jealousy.

The title of chapter four, “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” represents the barbaric state the children are growing into and their treatment of one another. In the middle of the chapter Jack slaps Piggy, and one of the lens to his specs broke. This summarizes the state of mind the boys are in. Their social conduct behavior has left and their instincts take over. “Ralph made a step forward and Jack smacked Piggy’s head. Piggy’s glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks” (Golding 71). The glasses represent the success of the group, being they started the fire. Jack broke half of the glasses, symbolizing retrogressing in the group. “Yet Ralphs throat refused to pass one. He resented, as an addition to Jack’s behavior” (Golding 72). Ralph is trying

To begin, Jack initially believes that he is using the mask to hide from the pigs, however, in reality, he wears the mask to hide from himself. From a young age, everyone is taught how killing is illicit, and Jack is no exception. In the Lord of the Flies Jack hesitates multiple times when trying to kill the pig. His hesitation is caused by the guilt he

Throughout the novel of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the way Jack is described changes. Not only how other characters view him but also the way he is described throughout the book. At his first appearance he is described as tall thin and bony with red hair, that his face is ugly and freckled. His blue eyes looked like they were ready to turn into anger. The other characters progressively start to see him as evil and violent as he craves to become leader over Ralph. His main conflict is believing that he deserves to be in charge and Ralph does not. Killing turns into a nature although he struggled at the beginning. Jack becomes viewed as an animal as he becomes so obsessed with being leader, when he struggles to kill the pig it shows his true humanity.

Jack’s interaction with the piglet shows he is indecisive. Right when the Ralph, Simon and Jack come across the piglet, Jack right away draws his knife with force. However, while he is standing there about to kill the piglet there is an unexpected pause. Jack was being very hesitant and before he knew it the piglet was freed from the vines and got away. After Ralph was confused as to why Jack did not kill the piglet, Golding states, “They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (Golding 31). This quote shows that not only Jack knew that he was being hesitant, but the others did as well. Jack was very anxious at first to be the chief and

Jack is always teasing piggy and tends to lean his jokes on the account of him being overweight,“Shut up Fatty”(21). Jack insults people, he bullies Piggy many times in the book. He even gets physical and punches him many times. One of the times he hits him he breaks one of the lenses in his specs. The way he leads influences Roger to go as far as killing Piggy. Jack and the boys make a chant, “Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill her blood!”(169). Jack begins to become savage he feels no remorse for killing the animal anymore. He comes up with a chant about killing, and he’s become obsessed with hunting. The evil within Jack grows throughout the story.

I thought, by myself…I thought I might kill.”. The reader can see from this that Jack’s vocabulary is composed of only monosyllabic words as he is preoccupied only with thoughts of slaughtering. We can also interpret that Jack feels as if he has to kill in order to gain respect for himself. Jack shows this pride when he does eventually kill a pig and he retells the story of the hunt to the rest of the boys. He and some of the boys re-enact the murder in a savage and primitive style. Therefore, we can see how his behaviour has been affected as a result of his compassion and need to hunt. This change in his behaviour is very significant as hunting is how Jack begins to establish his power over the group. Soon after the killing of the first pig, Jack is able to become more powerful and Ralph begins to realise this so he says, “I’m calling an assembly.”, as he feels in danger of losing control.

 In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Jack is the character that experiences the most change. Jack begins the novel as a somewhat arrogant choirboy, who cries when he is not elected leader of the island. Jack is gradually transformed into a vicious killer who has no respect for human life. Through a series of stages, such as leading the choir, leading the hunting tribe, wearing the mask, killing Simon, separating from the group and intentionally killing Piggy, Jack degenerates from a normal, arrogant school boy into a savage beast.

The significance of the character Jack, was thought provoking to the reader, due to his influential change throughout Lord of the Flies. In the beginning of the novel, Jack turned out to be a civilised, organised and authoritative school boy. However, as time went on and many things changed, Jack slowly succumbed to his true, primitive nature. Once Jack was given the role of Chief Hunter, and was able to kill his first pig, he hesitated and realised “the enormity of the downward strike would be”. As a result of this, Jack didn’t attempt to kill the pig, which shows us his underlying innocence. The longer Jack was stuck on the island, the more his inner savagery began to reveal itself to the audience. This in turn caused him to start trying to “convey the compulsion to track down and kill what was swallowing him up”. This drastic change in character reveals to the audience how influential the expectations of society can impact on human nature. Human nature at its purest form is the primitive, savage part of everyone, which is hidden by the rules of society we must follow to survive in a modern civilisation. Society is a person’s biggest influence. Once a young child like Jack is removed

Jack killing a pig is a scene in the novel where innocence is lost. After landing on the island, Jack went with the choir to find meat. He went up to pigs twice before he could bring himself to kill one. On page 74, the author writes, "The chant was audible but at that distance still wordless. Behind Jack walked the twins, carrying a great stake on their shoulders. The gutted carcass of a pig swung from the stake, swinging heavily as the twins toiled over the uneven ground…Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood" (Golding 74). This passage displays how once Jack had slaughtered the pig, he showed his accomplishment to the boys and acted as if he was powerful with his new skill. Before killing a pig, there were two instances in which Jack told everyone he could kill but did not have the guts to take the life of a living animal. Taking a pig's life unleashed a side of Jack that none of his companions had seen before. The first kill was a trigger for Jacks lust for hunting and eventually his loss of innocence.

In chapter 4, Golding uses words that are very descriptive but at the same time, he uses words that are restless and scary. For example, "the sun gazed down like an angry eye" (Golding 82). This shows that the sun was angry at them. Golding also uses a peaceful description, but it also has a restless undertone. For example, "snapping sharks; floods of light; odd succession of mirrors" (Golding 81). These words make the peaceful description strange and unpleasing. But overall, I liked the way Golding wrote this chapter because it is quite descriptive and understandable.

This diorama showcases the first meeting the boys have in Lord of the Flies after crashing onto the island, one of the most important meetings they will have. Ralph, “the boy with fair hair…”, sits on the large log that runs “parallel to the beach, so that when Ralph sat he faced the island but to the boys was a darkish figure against the shimmer of the lagoon” (pg. 7, 77). He also holds the conch, being the one who fished it from the water and the one who blew it to call the meeting. Piggy, the one “…shorter than the fair boy…”, and Jack, the one whose “ … hair was red beneath the black cap …” (might be a bit hard to see the red hair), both are sitting on the log to Ralph’s right (pg. 7, 20). This log is described as being “ … not