What Is Jack's Role In Lord Of The Flies

During Lord of the Flies we are introduced to a number of boys stranded on an island. Jack who soon takes the leader role among the tribe also turns into an animal. A group of savages by the end of the book that have killed another boy. Jack's animalistic behavior soon took over when he was on the island. Jack wants food and he is willing to kill a pig for his own survival. The group almost got a pig but it got away so they played a game to cheer themselves up. A boy named roger pretended to be a pig and the rest of the boys almost killed him. “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. “Kill

Bash him in!” Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering.” (Golding 175-176). The most important thing to take away from this is that Jack knew beforehand that this was just a game but he was so into it that something took him over and for a second he thought roger was a real pig. Jack Thinks this game was fun and would do the same to a real pig. Out of all the boys on the island Jack is the most eager and willing to catch food and has the fastest transformation from a normal boy to a survivalist. By the end of the book Jack has convinced almost everyone to follow him and to abandon reason and law. Without any rules and order we soon see Jack's tribe kill one of the boys. “overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever. Ralph heard the great rock before he saw it. He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff. Then the monstrous red thing bounded across the neck and he flung himself flat while the tribe shrieked. The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee” (Golding