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Why Is Hunting Important In Lord Of The Flies

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In the novel The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, it is a recurring theme that hunting is more important than any other duty a castaway may have. Jack, the leader of the hunters is a prime example of this, often neglecting his duties to go hunting and more often than not, coming back with nothing to show for it. On one occasion this caused the group of boys to not get rescued by a passing ship because instead of tending to the signal fire, Jack and his followers went to go hunt for pigs. Ralph, the elected leader of all the boys on the island, and Jack, the hunting obsessed future leader of the savages, begin butting heads early and eventually reach a breaking point towards the end of the novel.
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