We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we’re not savages :: English Literature

Weve got to have rules and result them. After all were not savagesWhen the male childs world-class step on the island they are very civilised theyare all wearing garb and walking around in groups exploring. Ralphand Piggy then find a conch, and use it to contact the other boys onthe island. This moment establishes that the conch symbolises law onthe island. Every time the conch is blown all the children come for an company.When the first assembly is held, Ralph is voted in as chief, insteadof old salt. This frustrates Jack but Ralph consoles him and says that heand his choir can be hunters, and Jack jumps at this opportunity. Ithink this is the first indication of savagery as everyone is verynervous and afraid, but as soon as Ralph mentions hunting to the choirthey are all instead excited. The savagery emerges with hunting ashunting presents the image of killing. We see the boys developingexcitement of ideas of savagery with this passage, Jack and Ralphsmiled at each other wit h shy liking. The rest began to talk eagerly.When Ralph, Jack, and Simon climb up the hole to see across theisland, they come across a copper color detain in some vines when Jack drawshis knife and cant act as himself to kill the pig, it is because he istoo civilised at this point in the book The pause was only longenough for them to understand what an exorbitance the downward strikewould be. Here Jack doesnt kill the pig however his attitude tokilling pigs, and indeed humans, changes radically during the story.Chapter three opens with Jack hunting pigs through the jungle. Here,there are many puppet images accustomed to Jack, for example Goldingwrites, Jack was bent double.his nose only a few inches from thehumid earth. and Then, dog-likeon all foursThe descriptions likening Jack to an animal show the first signs ofregression among the boys. The most relevant part in this section isthe part when Golding describes Jack as ape-like, because modernhumans evolved from apes, and s o regression would lead to acting againas apes. A withdraw from the passage reads, less a hunter than a furtivething, ape-like among the felt of trees.Despite Jacks attempts, he does not kill a pig. He is haunt withhunting and killing a pig, after his previous embarrassing misadventure todo so, with Ralph and Simon. From the pig-run came the quick, hardpatter of hoofs, a castanet sound, seductive, maddening-the promise ofmeat.This desire is understandably overwhelming him. The desire to kill, and thus