Jack's Intentions In Lord Of The Flies

Several boys carry with them their evil intentions. Jack is a power hungry boy who loathes the fact that Ralph was voted chief. Jack becomes bitter over this and eventually makes it even more transparent, even to Ralph that he hates him. Ralph and Jack make a decision at the beginning of the story for him and choristers to become the hunters of the island. The first time Jack and his hunters stalk down at pig, Jack find himself unable to kill it. He becomes humiliated by this and makes a promise that the next time he catches a pig, he will kill it. By the second time, he does and continues to do so, each time more violent and gruesome than the one before. “Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands.” (Golding 135).

Piggy becomes well aware of Jack’s intentions and becomes petrified of the possible outcome for himself and possibly Ralph. Jack had already revealed his true nature of becoming consumed with hunting, then becoming violent with Piggy and hollering at the littluns. Piggy knows Jack has a strong feeling of abhorrence and feels like he is in possible danger. ““ I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an’ then when you see him again, it's like asthma an’ you can’t breathe. I tell you what. He hates you too, Ralph—”” (Golding 93). Piggy becomes paranoid for all of the right reasons of Jack and fears for Ralph as well. Piggy has always defended his right to use the conch to exercise his right to speak during meetings, Jack loathes this and Piggy feels that it is a necessity for the conch to stand for his speaking rights. Roger is the other boy on the island known for his innate evil ways. Roger is described as the boy “who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.” (Golding

The boys are all leery of Jack’s side and keep a close eye on potential threatening moves. Piggy wails out how they need to stick to the rules that they originally set in place. Roger becomes overwhelmingly angry. He allows his Devil-like personality to break through. “Some source of power began to pulse in Roger’s body.” (Golding 175). This urge to hurt Ralph and Piggy was surging inside his mind. Eventually Roger began to look at Piggy and Ralph as objects not human beings that he wanted to kill. “Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat.” (Golding 180). This becomes easier for Roger to allow his evil crazes to puncture holes through him and let it out. Ralph and Piggy becoming these impersonal objects allowed his evil to puncture through him like a sword. Eventually, Roger allows his inner evil to cut through him completely and he does the unimaginable, unholy. “High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.” (Golding 180). Roger kills Piggy with the boulder that was suspended by the lever. He becomes solely responsible for Piggy’s murder. Roger became submerged with animosity and let it reign over