In the book Lord of the Flies, Jack is considered political allegory who represents Adolf Hitler from World War 2. This would make sense from the way that Jack acts and treats all of the other boys on the island. In the beginning, he starts with innocent acts such as leading the choir boys when he is first introduced in the book. He then goes on to try and do more sinister acts like killing a pig. His worst act that shows the audience he is Hitleresque is when he starts to kill, especially the pigs. He gives no mercy to them and he “was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Then [he] found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands.” (Golding, 135) Jack and Hitler both mercilessly killed people/animals and they killed