Jack is also unsympathetic towards the littluns’ and refers to them as a “useless lot of cry-babies”.
Jack becomes fearless and some of the other boys respect him as a good hunter because he has “been everywhere”. The other boys also think that he is more fun because he just hunts and doesn’t care about all the rules. The first instance when we see Jack becoming savage is when he paints his face as a disguise “like moths on a tree trunk” and starts wearing few clothes unlike the boy with the “ square black cap” that we were introduced to at the start. When Jack becomes disguised he intrigues the other boys because he starts leaping around and laughing excitedly he felt “liberated from shame and self-consciousness”. Jack becomes almost animal like with his movement too we see him ”bent double” with a “bare back” and “flared nostrils” which isn’t a human-like description at all. The chapter ‘Huts on the beach’ is when we start to see a small division between the group. Many of the boys want to have fun and see Jack’s hunting as the fun they wanted, “this’ll be a real hunt! Who’ll come?”, rather than building shelters.
Jack breaks piggy’s glasses after he let the fire go out and the glasses are a sign of civilisation as they light the fire. It is like Jack has become uncivilised.
When there is talk about the beast Jack tries to convince people that there is no such thing. The way that he reassures them is by asking them a question “Am I a hunter or not?” the other boys then believe him because they know that Jack will protect them. He has become a renowned hunter.
Jack’s tribe appealed to the boys as they were so hungry and Jack could provide them with meat. They chase the pig shouting “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”. Jack invited Piggy and Ralph to a feast and that is the night when Simon was killed by the tribe after being mistaken for the beast. Jack offers the Pigs head to the beast.
Jack assumed from the start that he “ought to be chief” as he was the choir leader and I think he resented Ralph for the fact that he was chief. Jack has a leadership quality “Jack led the way down the rock and across the bridge” and we start to see Jack use it when he becomes leader of his own “tribe” as he calls it. Jacks tribe performs eccentric dances around their fire “do our dance! Come on! Dance!” and they are responsible for Piggy’s death and when Ralph has no one left they nearly kill him too, except that they are rescued.
Jack’s rise to power meant that he became the most fearless and fearsome character. The boys respected him for his hunting, but after the death of Simon he became even more feared by Ralph and Piggy.
The resentment for Ralph that Jack carried from near enough the beginning was the fuel for Ralph’s attempted death. Jack’s power went straight to his head and the tribe became completely uncivilised and out of control. There were no rules and the boys did as they pleased and all though they enjoyed themselves we are left wondering what would have happened if the boys were not rescued when they were. I think we can say that Ralph would have been killed but would further separation have been on the cards? I think that perhaps Roger may have wanted more power if given the chance.
