Chapter 8:Gft for the Darkness
The scene where Jack and his hunters create the sacrificial pig head/ “Lord of the Flies”.
In this scene Jack and his hunters find a mother pig with her piglets. They are hidden and the mother pig is under the shadows. There is no wind and it is very hot. Jack points seeing if the other boys understood. He yells now to swarm the pig. Roger pulls back his arm and hurls a spear at a piglet. The piglet got hit but runs away into the sea. But two spears hit the mother pig in her butt. While the boys rush to finish their kill the other piglets ran off while the mother was escaping to the forest. All the boys run after her in the hunt. They follow her pig tracks until it was too long and they lost the tracks. Jack inflamed with anger curses and pounds the ground. But then he saw her in a field. One boy throws another spear and get her right in the butt. Now they could follow her by the blood trail she left behind. They were right behind her. She got into a open space where butterflies where dancing and flowers everywhere. She comes to a halt to weak to move on. The hunters rush over to her. Roger stabbing her whenever pigflesh was shown. Jack stabbing downward with his knife.Roger finds a spot to stab her and puts his whole weight on the spear while it probes deeper. jack finds the throat and cuts to hear no more squealing. Hot blood allover his hands. Then Jack decides the gift to the beast will be the pigs head. Jack says to sharpen both sides of the stick. He stabs the stick into the ground and the free end has the severed pigs head.
I think that part is the most terrifying part because William Golding puts way to muck description. The thought of seeing little kids kill and pig that is hanging on for dear life is a horrible picture to think of. Even the part where Roger puts his whole weight on the pig while the spear goes deeper and deeper is a disturbing act. In the book William says they are excited to kill an animal really freaks people out. Like killing a human.
Chapter 9: A View to a Death
I think Jack was responsible for Simon cruel murder even though the hunters killed him. I think Jack killed Simon is because he says in the book Jack tells the hunters to "Do our dance! Come on! Dance" he is making them get excited to kill. Then when he says " I don't care. Simon was the beast in disguise". That is the one line that shows he didn't care he was doing a favor by getting rid of the beast. Simon deserves to die , is what he is saying. Simon was the beast in disguise last night so I had to kill him. The beast is now gone. That is what I think Jack is trying to say. Instead of being mad, be joyful, I killed the beast we can sleep with comfort and no fear. This is why I think Jack killed Simon that horrible night.
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