English And American Versions Of Jack

Killing a pig was way too low for Jack. Jack and his followers killed a pig in need for food. If an adult civilized group was stuck, They would kill the pigs, but not that brutally. The civilization of Jack was gone and they were living like cavemen.

The need for civilization, innocence and loss of power is shown through the impaled pig's head. In order for the group to survive, animals must be killed in order for the boys to eat. Jack takes on the role of hunter because he enjoys killing living things, as seen when he states, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” (104) Ralph is a more calm person and does not enjoy killing as much as Jack, although he takes a small part in killing the pig. However, in the end, Jack gains all the power because everyone looks up to him as leader because he attempts to hunt the pig throughout the novel and is successful in the end. “We’ll take the meat along the beach.” “Pick up the pig,” Jack said. (150) Meanwhile, Ralph doubts Jack's abilities to kill the pig, and constantly mocks him about being successful. “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”(51) Jack proves Ralph wrong and kills the pig. “Jack begins to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."(58) He celebrates

Later, Jack and his hunters display another example of human evil with the gruesome slaughtering of a pig. They don’t just stab it to death and get it over with, but carry on deranged acts like taking a stick sharpened at both ends, with one side in the ground and the other for the pig to be impaled on. They take joy in the blood of the pig and show odd sexual hunger when they sodomize the pig with a stick.

Jack’s thirst for power for the sake of dominance develops a sense of dictatorship. When killing the sow, the shift in Jack is clear. Jack no longer looks to control nor shield himself from savagery; instead, he embraces it: “His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink” (Golding 70). The sense of power Jack receives from his kill is enough to completely take over his actions. Power is a drug to Jack, and he has become addicted. This addiction continues to affect his life, and more importantly, the lives of those he has surrounded himself with. Dropped “He [Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” (Godling 64). Golding uses juxtaposition and zoomorphism to inhibit this effect. Jack shifts from dancing to snarling in a matter of seconds, showing his vulnerability to the evil which has taken root in his heart. Jack is no longer human; he is a savage. It is known that money changes people. However, this is not true. With money comes power; power changes people. Jack has lost all control and power over his own life. So, he looks for control and power in the lives of others.

When I hear the words “Jack Tales” I think of the tale Jack and the Beanstalk. Where Jack sales his cow for magic beans. Then, his mom throws them out the window and a magic beanstalk through the night. Jack decided to climb the beanstalk several time and while up there he would take stuff from the giant while he was asleep. When Jack tried to steal a magical harm, the giant woke up. Jack rans down the beanstalk with the giant behind him. When he got to the bottom he took his ax and cut down the beanstalk. The giant being on the beanstalk when Jack did this fell down and hit the ground dying.

(Golding 33). Being stranded on the island has majorly changed Jack, he is praised for killing pigs because of it supply of meat. The amount of praise and the feeling of victory after a kill has caused Jack to go mad. The society within the island has corrupted Jack and many of his hunters because they are praised so greatly for killing a pig that they have now adapted this hunting as an evil game, the hunts are no longer for food but instead for self pride, and praise, and power.

While Jack and his hunters started out as just choirboys, they become obsessed with violence and are driven to kill. In the beginning of the book, Jack hesitates and misses his chance to kill a trapped pig. Later on, as Jack and his newly formed tribe hunt in the forest, they discover a sow. Following the desperate chase after

Ted Conover’s book, New Jack, is about the author's experiences as a rookie guard at Sing Sing prison, in New York, the most troubled maximum security prison. He comes to realize that being a correctional officer isn’t an easy task. This is shown from the beginning when he is required to attend a 7 week training program to become a correctional officer. He comes to realize what inmates have to endure on a daily basis. Throughout his experience into a harsh culture of prison and the exhausting and poor working conditions for officers, he begins to realize that the prison system brutalizes everyone connected to it. New Jack presents new ideas of prisons in the United States in the ways facilities, corrections officers, and inmates function with

Jack Burden is known as the “student of history” ( Warren 372). The very fact that he is a historian is ironic, as he has come from an aristocratic and reputable family and grew up in Burden’s Landing. However, Jack lacks the ambition needed to excel in life and works for Willie, despite the

Jack Merridew is an innocent boy who wants to become the leader so anxiously that he ends up being the antagonist, and he hurts anyone in his path. Jack gradually becomes more and more aggressive due to his craving to kill a pig for food. Jack thrives on that power and control that he gets from killing and that is all that will keep

In Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men the narrator, Jack Burden attempts to distance himself from any darkness surrounding him and his actions, yet simultaneously disclaims all responsibility. Throughout the novel he accepts human responsibilities and dismisses the moral relativism and “The Great Twitch.” Jack is Willie Stark's political right-hand man, comes from a prominent family and knows many of the most important people in the state. He lacks his ambition and his responsibilities. By the end of the novel jack is transformed by different events like departure of Ellis Burden, the case of Judge Irwin and his relation with Anne Stanton that gives him a chance to live his life with a different manner.

Jack asserts his control over others through the use of violence, and abuses technology to hinder

In the beginning of the book you are introduced to the antagonist Jack , who is in the middle of killing the

4. The climax of the story is found when Jack and his newfound friends come up upon some robbers in the house the animals and Jack were planning to occupy that evening. Jack skillfully devises a plan to rid the house of the robbers and uses his animal friends to help him. With teamwork, the plan becomes a success and they are able to spend the night in the house the robbers had just fled from. This paragraph from "How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune" unravels the climax of the story and allows readers to engage in a suspenseful event, and it states,

One of the earliest recordings of British American Märchen in the Archive of Folk Culture includes Sam Harmon’s rendition of “Stiff Dick”, a Jack tale parallel to the “Brave Little Tailor” included in the Grimm Brother’s Household Tales. These stories begin with Jack traveling the country usually looking for work. He encounters a group of insects, sometimes butterflies, most often house flies, and kills multiple with a stick or wooden paddle in one swing. The most common number killed is seven, whereby Jack proceeds to have a belt or belt buckle made to announce his accomplishment. In the Jack, “Stiff Dick” versions, the lettering reads, “Stiff Dick, killed seven with one lick!” In less suggestive versions, the message reads, “Strong man Jack, killed seven at a whack!” After the belt or belt buckle is made, Jack encounters the authority figure of the region who misunderstands the meaning of the message. The king, wealthy land owner, or lord of the region offers Jack a task based on his perception that Jack is a fierce fighter. The first task is to remove a wild boar that has been terrorizing the area, killing livestock and injuring people. Jack is offered a significant amount of money for the removal of the threat because all other men of the expanse are frightened. Jack is fearful of the boar himself, and decides to pretend to accept the offer but planning to slip out of the territory instead. While trying to escape the boar’s domain, he instead runs across the animal