Jacks Embodiments
             "The Young man who has not wept is a savage." This quote explains Jacks Character in Lord of the Files by William Golding. The quote shows that a savage person would not cry, but crying does not make you a wimp eventhough that is what most people think. Through Jacks violent actions he symbolizes the idea of brutality and savagery, he also shows that he prefers destruction to creation. He enjoys to rule by force and this shows that he is heartless. Jack is only concerned with himself and hunting and that is what makes him a conceited person.
             In the beginning Jack is not portrayed as a boy who would want anything to do with getting saved, because he was only interested in hunting and having fun. "All the same you need an army for hunting, hunting pigs." (Golding 33) Jack starts to show this during the middle chapters when he first sees the piglet and tries to kill it and fails. He then tries to make up an excuse of why the pig was not killed like he said it would be. "It broke away before I could kill it." (31) Ever since then he has had an idea of becoming the hunter on the island. Ralph was never into hunting and wanted Jack to only care about getting saved. Since Jack was only into hunting he went out to find some more pigs, eventhough Ralph did not want him to. When Jack kills the pig his savage side comes out because he cuts the pigs throat open and enjoys every minute of it, and shows that all he cares about is eating the pig and not being saved. When Ralph suggests that they build huts Jacks response was why, all he wanted to do was go and hunt. Jack would stop at nothing to hunt pigs, he went into the woods with a camouflaged face and this shows that Jacks character symbolizes savagery because he is into the brutal hunting just to feed himself, and his other hunters.
             When Ralph finds out that Jack has been hunting behind his back ...