Analyzing The Character Of Jack In 'Lord Of The Flies'

Violence begins to emerge in Jack at the end of the novel. This is the last quality that shows Jack is a dynamic character. By the end of the book, Jack has become a murderer. Not only

Jack is one of the strong examples that humans can be bad. He enjoys killing pigs, as he states “ ‘There were lashings of blood,’ said Jack, laughing and shuddering, ‘you should have seen it!’ ” (Golding 69). This quote shows that there is evil in Jack and it will be difficult for him to go back to his old nice self. He does not think about getting rescued, he wants to shed more blood. Another quote that proves humans can be evil is, “ ‘You would, would you? Fatty!’ … Jack smacked Piggy’s head” (Golding 71). This shows that Jack is very savage and is willing to hurt anyone. He wants to take control of the kids and become leader. He helps bring meat for the boys, but his brutal side will get him

Many of the boys want to have fun and see Jack's hunting as the fun

Jack was living with family that was careless about him, but now he lives in a tree house alone but not for long. When he was in the cvc’s(it’s really in the beginning) getting a tiny screwdriver to repair walkie, he got attacked by a furious monster named Blarg! After running away from the Blarg to the treehouse, he began repairing walkie. The second walkie had his best friend Quint(who likes brussel sprouts,YUCK!). After he was talking to Quint, he went to Quint’s house

A good leader is one who knows how to lead with control and has strong leader characteristics. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, some readers support the fact that Jack was a better leader than Ralph, but others feel that Ralph was the better leader. Although many supporters feel that Ralph is the best leader, it is evident that Jack is the better leader because he can effortlessly control the group on the island.

Jack posses the ability to influence his peers with his charismatic nature. Although, he does lack leadership by not delegating duties with structural goals attached to reflect the desired outcome. Therefore, he loses sight of the workday operations. It is only then on Christmas Eve that he realizes his team has not entirely understood his vision.

though Jack does not want to be seen as a child, but as a figure of

Because of the peculiar connection between Jack and the Frenchman, it affects Jack with inner conflicts. During the search of the Frenchman, Jack tends to miss his meal and tends hurts himself. Also, the fact that he knows about the djinn, it makes him feel guilty about the Frenchman’s missing. “The night, before, Jack had been unable to sleep” (538). Jack feels uncomfortable by the missing so he goes out to the beach. Then Jack sees all of his images of the djinn told by Fawad and thinks the djinn is talking to him. Jack’s thoughts were very limited to the child level until when he sees the Frenchman, “help, the Frenchman was shouting for help, and, suddenly, Jack realized that the Frenchman was thrashing and rolling over in the water” (541). Jack no longer considers his imagination as the reality and he witnesses the Frenchman as

To begin with Jack, Jack wants power and leadership. The situation Jack is in makes his evil grow. Jack is letting the situation control him which is increasing the evil inside of him. The evil inside him is making him more selfish and violent. For example, at the starting of the novel when Jack had failed to kill the pig he cries to Ralph, “[Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up. ‘I went on. I thought, by myself-’ The madness came into his eyes again. ‘I thought I might kill.” (Golding 51). The quote shows how at the starting of the novel Jack had good inside of him as he had feared killing an animal which makes sense as he is a kid. This shows that Jack was not evil from the beginning. But the situation and atmosphere increase the evil inside of him when he says, “I thought I might kill” this shows how the

Jack will go on to find another mask in his own room, which his mother will talk him into wearing. He will also have what he believes to be a nightmare, in which a boy in a white nightgown, with silver eyes and teeth, rides an old-fashioned bicycle into the vacation home's front yard. This dream will drive Jack into his parents' bed, and when he wakes in the morning, he will be alone in the bed, but will see his dad unzipping a suitcase, while standing completely naked, wearing only his own mask -- a clear one that "squashed the features beneath, flattening out of their recognizable shapes." His father's expression is otherwise blank, and the two do not exchange words. When Jack hurries down to the kitchen, he finds his mother, wearing a "sex-kitten"

Jack initially lives a very average life. His job and life is so average that anybody can relate to him. His apartment is decorated almost exclusively with items from the Ikea catalogue. He tells us that he has given in to the “…Ikea nesting instinct.”

The novel begins with him on his fifth birthday. He is usually happy despite the terrible situation he and his mother are in. However, because he has lived every moment of his life in Room, he doesn’t know they are being held captive. Although he may be intelligent for his age, he is oblivious to many things. He seems to believe that everything outside of the walls of Room are only on TV and are not real. He is very energetic and enjoys every moment he gets to spend with his Ma. He is usually curious and adventurously brave, but when nightfall comes and he goes in Wardrobe, he gets frightened hearing Old Nick in Room with Ma. Jack is a Magical Child, and this is the most relevant archetype in the novel. Throughout the entire novel Jack embodies the qualities of the Magical Child. The Magical Child is gifted with the power of imagination and believes that everything is possible,“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”(1.250)Jack was born into a world of deception, but he still views the world as a wonderful place. He considers the Room their home, while his Ma sees it as a living nightmare “In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary.”(1.243).He is imaginative and creative. He makes friends with the objects in Room (i.e Table, Bed, Rug) and also he pretends the characters on TV are his friends (Dora the explorer, they go on adventures

Under such influences, in chapter 8, Jack describes even the act of checking his balance in the bank as: "what a pleasing interaction. I sensed that something of deep personal value, but not money, not that at all, had been authenticated and confirmed…The system was invisible…But we were in accord, at least for now. The networks, the circuits, the streams, the harmonies." However, as the story proceeds, Jack's views to the life and the world around him

Jack faked a smile at the dreadful children, trying to make them happy and clueless. They all watched a show as jack stayed behind them, picking out which one he wanted to kill first. Jack then felt like there was someone missing like someone was out in the park. He let the children out of the tent, so he could find the one he was missing. Then that feeling turned into a feeling of two people. Jack walked quickly around the park when suddenly he saw her, the first girl he had ever killed. The rings around his nose started spinning as he started getting angry.

“You got to go because it’s not safe—”. So in the story Lord of the Flies by WILIAM GOLDING showed how kids can change so quick. It showed how being stuck in an island can turn the most innocent kids into savages. The story is on a lot of little kids and how their plane was shot down by a World War 2 fighter plane and that’s how they got stuck in an island in the pacific. The character this essay will be about is Jack. The character traits that Jack well there is so many but i choosed to do natural leader,savage, and hardheaded.