Intro

Tall and skinny with red hair, freckles, and light blue eyes you’d never think this character would be the cause of destruction within the surviving boys on the island. When we first meet him, Jack is an imperious, red-headed boy who begins making demands from the first moment he speaks. He is the head of a choir and seems to rule them quite severely. They are not allowed to even sit on the beach until he tells them they can (after they begged him to allow it), and we know they don’t like Jack’s leadership because they do not vote for him to be leader on the island.

P1

Jack is immediately disdainful cruel to Piggy for no reason than Piggy’s appearance and dismisses anything Piggy says even though Piggy has the conch. It is interesting that Jack is the only boy on the island carrying a knife at the time of the plane crash: though he brags about using it, the first time he has the opportunity he is unable to do it. This will soon change. As Jack’s obsession with hunting grows, so does his cruelty. Eventually, he discovers that if he can catch pigs if he paints his face; when he does, his transformation into “savage” in nearly complete. As Jack looks at his painted-face reflection, something changes. He looks in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger. He spilled the water and leaped to his feet, laughing excitedly. Beside the pool, his sinewy body held up a mask that drew the attention and horror of the others. He then began to dance and laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered towards Bill and the mask was a thing on its own, Behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness the face of red, white and black swung through the air and crawleds towards Bill. Bill started laughing: Then suddenly he fell silent and blundered away through the bushes. Whatever Bill, one of Jack’s choirboys, saw in Jack at that moment appalled him and caused him to run away. Jack now has complete freedom, because he feels no shame or guilt, to do whatever he wishes – and Bill clearly knows what that might mean.

P2

Jack becomes chief of a tribe of savages, and he moves from killing pigs to killing humans. He allows Piggy’s murder and he tries to stab Ralph with his spear. When Ralphs escapes. Jack orders his savages to hunt him down and kill him-which they would have done if the naval officer had not appeared on the beach.

Conclusion Jack’s tranformation is not from a wonderful, polite little boy into the chief of a tribe of savages; instead, his tranformation is more dramatic