os;t have as far to digress as the other children such as Ralph. Jack marches into the story in military fashion, parading his band of choirboys up the beach. His first two signs of violent power are the troop like manner in which he conducts his boys, and his knife. The knife obviously represents how violent he is, for Jack never uses it for anything else. The knife premiers in the book when Jack uses it to scare Piggy. As he develops however, he uses it to kill pigs, an interesting progression. Also, Ralph makes Jack's group of boys the hunters. Though he seems content with this at the time, Jack will not rest until he's the only chief.
             When Jack, Simon, and Ralph are going exploring in the first chapter, we learn a lot about Jack's character. There were two small dialogues which I think say a lot about him. The first one is when they are on a path and Ralph inquires as to who made it,
             This is a hint of what's going to come later in the book. Ralph associates something with possible rescue and civilization, whereas Jack associates it with wild savage animals. In the same chapter, the three boys find a bush of candle bushes.
             "You couldn't light them said Ralph."
             "Green candles," said Jack contemptuously. "We can't eat them. Come on."
             Not only is this an obvious example of what these two characters care about, survival versus rescue, but before the dialogue, something important happens; Jack slashes the candles with his knife. Whether the author meant it or not, I think that Jack slashing the buds is another symbol of what's to come. Not because he did it so brutally, but because Jack is a rival of the fire on the top of the mountain later in the book, and since candle buds are immedietly assosiated with fire, this is Jack's first attack on it.
             Soon after this incident, we see that though Jack is evil at the beginning of the book, he's not evil enough without the beast. Wit...