Why does jack set the jungle on fire

He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake it was impaled on to use as a weapon against Jack.

That night, Ralph sneaks down to the camp at the Castle Rock and finds Sam and Eric guarding the entrance. The twins give him food but refuse to join him. They tell him that Jack plans to send the entire tribe after him the next day. Ralph hides in a thicket and falls asleep. In the morning, he hears Jack talking and torturing one of the twins to find out where Ralph is hiding.

Several boys try to break into the thicket by rolling a boulder, but the thicket is too dense. A group of boys tries to fight their way into the thicket, but Ralph fends them off.

Then Ralph smells smoke and realizes that Jack has set the jungle on fire in order to smoke him out. Ralph abandons his hiding place and fights his way past Jack and a group of his hunters. Chased by a group of body-painted warrior-boys wielding sharp wooden spears, Ralph plunges frantically through the undergrowth, looking for a place to hide.

At last, he ends up on the beach, where he collapses in exhaustion, his pursuers close behind. Suddenly, Ralph looks up to see a naval officer standing over him. The officer tells the boy that his ship has come to the island after seeing the blazing fire in the jungle.

For his part, Ralph is overwhelmed by the knowledge that he has been rescued, that he will escape the island after coming so close to a violent death. The boys flee in terror. At the beach the next day, no one can decide if the beast is real or not. Jack says that he and his hunters can kill the beast, but when Ralph dismisses that idea, an infuriated Jack blows the conch and calls for a meeting. He tells the boys that Ralph had insulted them and he is not fit to be a chief.

He calls for a vote to remove Ralph from power and have him be leader instead. Nobody votes for him. Hurt and upset, Jack storms off in tears. He tells them he is not playing games with them anymore and will form his own group. He convinces the other boys they should join him and disappears in the forest. Sometime afterwards, most of the biguns leave Ralph and go join Jack. Somewhere in the jungle, Jack declares himself leader of the older boys who join him and would get them away from the conch.

He says to them that when they go hunting, they will leave some of the kill for the beast, and it won't bother them. Jack leads them into the forest. The hunters come across a female sow and they kill it. Jack cuts off its head and decides they will raid Ralph's camp to steal some fire to cook the pig's body. They would also invite everyone to the feast. They stake the pig's severed head on a stick as an offering to the beast and they flee.

The hunters arrive at Ralph's camp, where they take some flames from the signal fire and before leaving, they invite Ralph and the others to their feast later that night.

At the feast in the evening, Jack's face is painted like a savage, wears a crown of leaves and sits on top of a log like a throne. He commands all the boys to obey him. After Ralph arrives, Jack asks the boys gathering at the party who would join his tribe and the conch has no authority on this side of the island. He already has food and he and his hunters will protect them from the beast.

A thunderstorm approaches, and Jack calls the tribe for a dance. Roger pretends to be the pig as the boys dance around in a frenzied mood chanting " Kill the beast!

Cut his throat! Already frenzied and thinking it's the beast coming towards them, Jack and all the boys kill Simon with their bare hands and teeth before his body is washed out at sea. The wind blows away the dead parachutist and sails past the boys towards the water.

Jack and the boys run away screaming. The next day, Jack and his tribe set up fort at Castle Rock, the rocky formation they had discovered earlier while hunting for the beast. He has some of his hunters to defend their fortress, would beat anyone who disobeys him, and has a boy captured and beaten for no reason. Jack tells his tribe they will go out hunting again the next day, as they believe the beast isn't dead yet and would still come back. They will have a feast tomorrow and they will need some fire, so Jack decides they should have Piggy's glasses to make the flames.

That night, Jack and his hunters raid Ralph's camp, where he steals the glasses and returns to their fort with them. The next day, Jack and his hunters come out of the forest with a pig on a spit when they see Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric at Castle Rock. The new chief and Ralph fight with each other after Jack was called a thief, with Ralph telling him to give back Piggy's glasses and the importance of the signal fire.

Jack points out his tribe only has cooking fire, and he orders his hunters to tie up Samneric. Jack and Ralph fight again. Piggy tries to restrain order with the conch, but Roger kills Piggy with a rolling boulder and the conch is destroyed. The tribe is silent for a moment, but Jack screams and throws a spear at Ralph, aiming to kill him. The hunters start throwing spears at Ralph as he flees into the forest.

As Samneric are captured, Jack prods at them with his spear and terrorizes them into joining his tribe. Jack and his tribe have now become savages as they make preparations to hunt down and kill Ralph. The next morning, the hunters go into the jungle to find Ralph, where Jack questions the twins and beats them into revealing where their former chief is.

The hunters try pushing boulders at the thicket where Ralph is and try to storm it. Jack orders his tribe to set the forest on fire to get him out of his hiding spot. As the jungle burns, Jack and his tribe chase Ralph from every hiding place.

They all come out on the beach where Ralph is but stop in their tracks when they spot a naval officer standing before them. Jack remains quiet when the officer questions what is going on. As Ralph starts to weep, Jack and all the boys start weeping, too, for the end of their childhood innocence. Jack is angry and strict. He constantly orders his allies and hunters to do something for him and he beats them when they don't do what they are told.

He also has a fiery temper and can easily lash out at anyone who disapproves him of his actions and decisions. Jack would also lose his temper when the importance of civilization is being brought up and as time went by, insists that a civilized society is not essential anymore and wants to control the island his own way.

He is barbaric when it comes to hunting. While he originally hesitated when trying to kill his first pig, he vows that he will really do it next time. He would brutally kill his prey such as when he impaled a sow through its anus and then placed its head on a stake as an offering to the beast.

When his hunters had either a successful hunt or having a tribal feast, they would chant their song, " Kill the Beast! Cut its throat! By William Golding. Previous Next. He hides in the thick underbrush, wondering what to do about the rather serious wound on his ribs. He can't wash himself without risking capture, so he just lies there, trying to think.

At one point, peering out from his hiding spot, he sees a painted face—Bill. But no; this wasn't Bill. It was a savage who had nothing to do with Bill. Finally, as the sunlight starts to fade, he sneaks over to the edge of the thicket so he can see what Jack and his group are doing. The smoke is rising and he can smell the pig they are roasting. Ralph is hungry. He tries to convince himself that they will leave him alone, that everything was an accident and that "they're not as bad as that.

He makes his way back to the beach and on the way comes to a clearing in the forest. Yes, it is the same clearing we saw before, the one with the Lord of the Flies, now checking out Ralph "like one who knows all the answers and won't tell. He grabs the spear on which the head had been impaled and makes off. As night falls, Ralph goes back to Castle Rock to stare at the savages and Jack. He is completely isolated and lonely. He wonders if he can't just wander into the fort, as though it were a game, say "I've got pax " and laugh about it.

After all, aren't these the same boys who said "Sir" and wore caps? Not so much. The tribe—including Sam and Eric—is dancing and chanting, "Kill the beast. Cut his throat! Spill his blood! There is no signal fire.

The conch is smashed to powder. The whole situation sucks unbelievably. Eventually, Ralph sneaks down and calls out softly to Sam and Eric. They come over, but they don't want to—they tell Ralph to go away. Ralph begins to say "If it were light—" and the narration tells us that, if it were light, the boys would burn in shame. Sam and Eric say "they hurt us," and reveal that Jack is planning to hunt him Ralph tomorrow, starting early in the morning.

And by hunt, they mean kill.