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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

The desire for power and not getting the desired power will often cause major conflicts. In the case of Jack, he will do anything to have the power he wants, even if that means lie about the current leader, Ralph. As Jack talks about Ralph he says, “He is not a proper chief… He is a coward himself. (page 176).” He goes on to say, “Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief ? (page

Jack is only interested in power, he acts like a dictator and doesn’t follow the communities thoughts. Some actions that Jack takes that shows this are "I got the conch," said Piggy indignantly. “You let me speak!” “The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain," said Jack, “So you shut up.” This shows how Jack acts like dictator because he doesn’t listen to what the people say. “He's not a hunter. He'd never have got us meat. He isn't a perfect and we don't know anything about him. He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. All this talk-.” This shows how Jack is power hungry and will basically do anything to get it, he is trying to make Ralph look like a bad chief in order for him to try to take the power away from him and get it for himself. “We’ll raid them and take fire. There must be four of you; Henry and you, Robert and Maurice. We'll put on paint and sneak up.” This shows how Jack uses his power to make his tribe members listen to his orders and steal the members of the other tribes. Jack is only interested in power and wants the power for his own

Jack is filled with an internal evil that strives for power and dominance through the fear and trust of the weaker children. The littluns are swearing their trust to Jack in return for protection. Maurice even confesses that Jack says, “I mean when Jack says you can

Jack demonstrates leadership qualities at the first place when coming up with a plan of being rescued. Nonetheless, as the time passes, he begins to enjoy a sense of power. He becomes forceful, hazardous, and is willing to kill. Jack and Ralph attempt friendship even though they have extremely different personalities. Their original feelings were

Shortly after Jack’s rebellion and the forming of a new tribe, his violence transitions from insults to murder. Instantly, After the death and murder of Piggy and the destruction of the conch, Jack tells Ralph, “there isn’t a tribe for [him] any more” and proceeds to claim that “[he’s] chief”. Jack’s reaction to another individual's deaths shows the evil that resides within him as he no longer cares about human life, only power. He wanted to break the conch, because that’s what inforced the rules and was like magnet pulling the boys to Ralph’s tribe. Jack would do anything to get rid of it, even at the life of another. Piggy’s death signified the things Jack

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

Ralph notices this and tries to stop him by yelling “‘Jack! Jack! You haven’t got the conch! Let him speak.’”, and tells him in front of everyone, saying he’s “‘breaking the rules’” (Golding 129). Jack, however, furiously retorts that he “‘[doesn’t] care!’” (Golding 130). It is because of this behavior that he starts to chip away at the conch’s power over Ralph and the other kids. Along with this disagreement, he also outright refuses to concede with the rules, but instead acts immature and thinks the rules are “‘[Bollocks!] 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 130). Jack goes even farther with this later in the book, even going so far as to to “tie Wilfred up…and beat Wilfred” (Golding 229) due to a mistake. This makes Jack a very strong leader, not unlike that of a dictator, using force to keep people in line.

After unsuccessfully trying to take away Ralph's power Jack states, “I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs.” (Golding 145). This quote holds significance in Jack’s struggle for power. Jack finally found the power in himself to break away from a place where he felt oppressed. This quote also shows how Jack felt his hunting was very important to Ralph and their overall survival. Jack, from the beginning believed hunting was the most important thing no matter what everyone else said, and from this belief Jack created many conflicts like not maintaining the fire. By leaving Ralph to hunt for himself Jack believed he was leaving him to die. Golding uses this to illustrate Jack’s need for power. When all structure was lost he found structure in hunting and thought those who didn't were still lost. By breaking away he created the ability to build a life that made sense to him and invited anyone who wanted to join. When Jack realizes this he very abruptly changes from someone who is fighting for power to someone with strength and courage. Jack paints a mask of his face and almost instantly changes. “He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling… The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness” (Golding 68). Almost instantly Jack was a different person to not only the people around him but also to himself. Like the conch Golding uses the mask as a symbol for power. With the mask Jack is someone who doesn’t have to follow rules and obey the conch. He shows his break away from the government by breaking the conch. “The conch exploded into a thousand white pieces and ceased to exist,” (Golding 209) and just as simply so did any power Ralph had over

In other words Jack, or chief, is abusing his power and is going to beat Wilfred for an unknown and unsaid reason. From this, we can infer that Jack is very oppressive. In summary, the boys’ reasoning behind punishment begins to not matter and since wrong behavior isn’t corrected, the boys in Jacks “tribe” are becoming savage and almost inhuman as time goes by.

Jack is often manipulative which means that he uses fear or punishment to maintain order among his tribe.

1. Ralph's contemplation's at the beginning of the chapter are about how he feels about the boys on the island. He just talks and walks around the beach by the lagoon about how he feels about everything that has happened and perhaps a little bit about how much respect he's getting. One of the things Ralph is most bothered by is the fact that the littluns are not working and doing whatever they please. Another thing he might be annoyed by is the fact that Jack is getting a little too focused on hunting.

In the book, The Warrior Heir,by Cinda Williams Chima Jack exhibits fearlessness in a way most others will understand. Jack Swift was born a wizard to parents with no such indications. His Aunt Linda, an enchanter who could basically influence anybody to do as she wishes,looks over jack in Trinity, Ohio. Jack was born without a wizard stone, which in most cases means death. His Aunt Linda convinces Dr.Longbranch ( premier wizard from the White Rose) to insert a stone in his body.

I think that he thought he needed to prove his bravery because he had just been embarrassed when Ralph had said they had found a pig but Jack had not been able to kill it. He felt that he had to make up for not killing the pig by saying he would “hunt and kill” the snake thing. He had to prove that he wasn’t a coward but by doing this he also added some more tension between him and Ralph. I can see where Jack thought he had to prove him self but I think it was a bad move to contradict Ralph as the leader. It would be the same as if the president said something and then the vice-president came and said that he thought the president was wrong and he was going to do something about it. Jack is Ralph’s second in command and I think that Jack should have support Ralph’s thoughts on the beast and not caused conflict.

Have you ever met someone like Jack? An aggressive, obsessive, intimidating, egotistical boy that wants to be better than everyone he possibly can be. He's all about violence and torture. Many are scared of him because of how he is. Piggy states "I'm scared of him, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe." It's like Jack can't focus on anything else once he's committed to something. Jack thrives off the kill. On the island he won't stop until he gets the pig and becomes obsessed with hunting.