Hang Chou Lord Of The Flies Jack Character Analysis

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I have created a mask for Jack from William Golding’s Utopian novel, The Lord of the Flies. The color blue represent fearless . In the novel, Jack is fearless. In the meeting Jack declares that ‘“ Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong-we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat--!’” ( Golding 91). This proves Jack is fearless because instead of fear the unknown beast like other kids do, Jack is eager to kill the beast. Another thing that I used to describe my character mask is an empty looking eye and it symbolizes Jack’s irresponsible. For example, Jack said to Ralph when the fire go out and the ship couldn’t saw the kid's signal,’” We can light the fire again. You should have been

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