“Halt!” The scream, anticipated by Ralph from the leader of the hunters, took him by surprise when

It starts to dawn on Ralph that the boys are no longer listening to him. His grip on them was primarily based on communication, and his inability to deliver showed weakness. Jack, the leader of the hunters, goes rogue in a fit of embarrassment and anger.

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

The Winter is the opposite of summer, during the winter not only does the winter change but the town's appearance. The houses that once looked artificial were exposed and looked abandoned. “Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie...The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops...they are so much more uglier then when their angles were softened by vines and

Jack shows that savagery is like an illness and only gets worse over time. After Jack kills the first pig, he proudly says, “’I cut the pig’s throat’” (Golding 69). In this quote, Jack is proud of killing a defenseless sow; this proves that by nature humans are savage because a young, innocent child like Jack killed a mother pig who was nursing her young. Without a real man to look up to, Jack thought being a man meant acting as though he was tough and killing everything he saw. This is a mindset of a savage person. In addition to this scene, Jack leads the charge that killed Simon. This also proves that humans are savage by nature because Jack had no

The savages bring a piece of the pig to Ralph’s camp. Jack starts a fire and begins to roast the pig when Ralph enters. Jack and his hunters dance around the fire chanting about killing the beast. Innocent Simon then crawls out of the forest and tries to speak to the boys. Jack stabs at poor Simon believing that he is a beast and the others join in. “The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched, and screamed” (Golding 152). The boys have accidentally killed one of their own. In the heat of the moment and with the darkness they could not see clearly.

In Chapter 7, hunting is a very common theme and it is proved that within everyone, there is a desire to hunt and feel empowered. When Jack, his hunters, and Ralph went hunting, a big boar came out of nowhere, which could have killed them all, until Ralph stepped in, striking the boar with his spear before it did any harm. “‘I hit him’ said Ralph again, ‘and the spear stuck in a bit.’ He felt the need of witness. [...] ‘I hit him all right. The spear stuck in. I wounded him!’ He stunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all” (Golding 113). This quote shows that after Ralph felt the adrenaline and success of hurting the boar, his whole view of hunting changed and he started to feel good about himself and about hunting. He felt confident and powerful as he repeated what he had done multiple times to the group, trying to get recognition. I think one reason that Ralph feels good about hunting now is because before he went on this trip, nothing was going his way as chief. He would always fight for attention from the group and never get his way. However, when he was successful in hunting,

“…And then there was the condemned meat industry, with its endless horrors. The people of

It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of mean and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go in the hoppers together.”# There was nothing the packers would not do to make a profit, if meat went bad they would pickle it or make sausage out of it, “there was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white-it would be dosed with borax and glycerin, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption.”# The Packers took no responsibilities for the sickness that these meats caused. It was not uncommon for people to die from sickness they had gotten from eating bad meat, this is also an issue in “The Jungle” when a young family member suddenly dies one morning, “it was the smoked sausage he had eaten that morning-which may have been made out of some of the tubercular pork that was condemned unfit for export.”# Disease was also a factor for the workers, as quoted from the book “Meat and Men “Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle-rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world.”# It was also not uncommon for people to fall into the vats and become lard. “The public revolted at the

Ralph is a bad guy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a bad guy. Ralph is courageous and decides that he needs to leave his ordinary world to find validation somewhere else, however, he gets a bit delayed along the way. When he enters Hero’s Duty, a game dedicated to the killing of “cybugs”, he earns a medal after almost dying due to the creatures and their eggs. Ralph walks right into a video game meant to simulate war against aliens. What could be more courageously reckless? This trial is supposed to show Ralph’s true strength and talent, and also symbolize Ralph’s fear of dying outside of his game and his realization that he isn’t the worst bad guy ever, as the penthouse people in his game treated him. That isn’t where Ralph stops,

It was snowing but it was summer. There was so much ice and it was terribly cold. It was utterly different from our land,” said Lizzie Amagoalik. They found the scenery very barren and desolate, with nothing but ice and stones.

Indeed, despite his position of power and responsibility in the group, Jack shows no qualms about abusing the other boys physically. Some of the other hunters, especially Roger, seem even crueler and less governed by moral impulses. The civilized Ralph, meanwhile, is unable to understand this impulsive and cruel behavior, for he simply cannot conceive of how physical bullying creates a self-gratifying sense of power. The boys’ failure to understand each other’s points of view creates a gulf between them—one that widens as resentment and open hostility set in.

“We have our pig, we’ll wait on collecting the meat until we have killed all the pigs on the ship. We’ll save Ralph for last. On with the game!” Shouted Jack raising his knife now covered in the doctor’s blood. The savages cheered and dragged the body into a corner to be used later. Roger walked up to Jack and whispered in his ear, among the crowd of cheering boys dancing around the body as it was dragged to the corner what was said between them was incoherent to any of the other savages.

“Don’t tell me you’re getting sick too.” Daniel Rankin said to his friend, classmate, and ex-girlfriend Zoe Amba as she coughed while loading her bag into his brother’s truck. It was an oddly empty day at school that day, as most of the kids were sick; their numbers dwindled each minute as another student would enter the health office where Daniel’s brother was helping out.

January Thaw describes the close of winter through a few signs: the melting of the snow, the wake-up of the hibernating skunk, the grieving of the mouse over his flooded tunnels, bundles of rabbit hair and their newfound “freedom from want and fear”.

In the second stanza it is the semantic field of cold: ‘winter’, ‘ice’, ‘naked’, ‘snow’. All these lexical items give us a feeling of cold which evokes loneliness, unknown, fear.