JD Casias Mr. Butt English 2 April 12, 2023 Humans are animals after all. In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding depicts human nature in a way that depicts how animals act in their own environment. When they first arrive on the island the boys try to enforce rules, their desperate attempt to be civil until they're rescued. Eventually however one of the boys, Jack, gets sick of following the rules and steers away from the group, he starts to only care about hunting and killing. This is how animals act and Jack is described as a “savage” because of this. The boys eventually end up killing one of the other boys, Simon, who was a rule follower and tried to keep things civilized. They could not descend into full savagery until Simon …show more content…
One of these main rules is the conch. The conch is a shell Ralph found when he first arrived on the island. When the boys are having their first of many meetings, they declare that the person speaking must have the conch in their hands. This shell represents rules and civilization in this book. In the end, after Jack steers away from the group he shatters this shell into a hundred pieces, representing his complete turn to savagery and his total dexterity from rules and civilization together. During the course of the novel, Jack becomes a hunter and starts to be obsessed with hunting. When he first started he could not kill a pig, he could not take another life. He feels like a coward because of the fact he cannot kill the pig and starts dedicating all of his time to killing a pig. He starts painting his face to blend in with the trees and sneak up on these pigs. It's almost like a game to him, however, he still feels cowardly. This all changes when he kills his first pig. Once he kills his first pig he starts obsessing over hunting and moves on to killing Simon. Because Jack killed many pigs before taking Simons's life almost felt like a game to him. The same game he played with his