Lord of the Flies

             In the novel The Lord Of The Flies, written by William Golding, is based on the concept of savagery. In the beginning of the novel, all of the characters are normal little kids but then something happened under their odd circumstances. Some of the boys are driven by something to become savages and act like animals. Jack's moral downfall is his fault because of the way he takes action of this situation.
             One of the first things that happens to Jack to put him in an angry frame of mind is when all of the boys are choosing a leader. This angers Jack because it's kind of a battle between him and Ralph, the two older boys. Anyone who has ever been in competition with someone else can relate to this situation. It is human instinct to want to win certain things, in this case being in control. Everything that happens to Jack happens in a way that would make anyone in this situation change, either for the bad or for the good. In Jacks case, he really wants to be the leader and instead, he gets stuck with the hunters. This is just what starts Jacks rampage which leads him to his moral downfall.
             The second thing that happens to Jack is the whole situation with the pig. He is the
             head of the hunters and comes to his first task, but fails. He comes face to face with a pig that needs to be killed for food, and he cant kill it. This makes him even more angry and he becomes obsessed with it. Everyone has come to something that they morally cannot accomplish at first, and then it becomes their primary goal. Jack is doing what anyone would do but he is doing it with brutality. Because of his obsession with killing the pig, he becomes obsessed with killing period.
             The third thing which contributes to Jack's downfall is when he decides to separate into two different groups. Jack's group is of course the savage group that wants to have fun when Ralph's group wants order. The m
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