How Does Goulding Present Jack's First Hunt In Lord Of The Flies

In the allegorical novel lord of the flies by William Goulding, through the topic of hunts the author[a] shows how all human beings have the capacity of brutality. He expresses this topic throughout the story with Jacks first hunt, Ralph finally going hunting and Jacks ‘tribe’hunting Ralph. In the novel Goulding slowly builds up the intensity of the hunts. Since hunts were such a big part of the novel Goulding made sure to include suspenseful and colorful language when describing each hunt. Basically throughout the book the boys mostly all enjoyed pig hunting but towards the end they begun to start ‘hunting’ their own. Goulding presents Jack’s first hunt as useless and a first attempt at hunting. At the beginning of Chapter 3 the author starts out with “jack was bent double”(48) to describe how Jack was becoming more savage and obsessed with hunts. He describes how jack is preparing to attack and kill a pig. He had “a sharpened stick”(51) and was ready to attack. Unfortunately Jack failed and “shouted in rage”(51)

In the beginning of the novel the boys only hunted pigs. Towards the end, as the civilized boys turned savage they began to hunt each other. It first began with a moch pig killing with Roger but soon the hunts went even darker. The boys were so wild that they killed Simon. But most specifically in chapter 12, the last chapter everyone on the island has turned against Ralph and wants him dead. Ralph first sneaks onto castle rock to speak to samneric, they tell him how Roger has “sharpened a stick at both ends”(190). He then “heard a savage“(194) then proceeds to run and hide in the thick of the jungle. He runs into the “wide grin of the skull”(197). Jack and his savages started to light the entire island on fire to try and trap Ralph easier. The anxiety and fear of getting killed began to make Ralph vertigo. The topic has changed now because the hunts are getting more and more