Chapter seven of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies opens with the stranded band of boys out on a hunting expedition. Ralph, chieftain of the boys, had joined in for the very first time and when Jack, leader of the hunting party, was charged by a territorial boar he threw his spear into its snout. Ralph and the rest of the hunters were practically singing with excitement and a chilling pride at injuring the boar despite the fact that it had escaped. A boy named Robert begins to pretend to be the boar and Jack pretends to hunt him, the rest soon join in the game but it quickly turns into a brutal attack. “ All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife. Behind