Jack Merridew's Actions

The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book with murders of two young and innocent boys by a fellow child on an island, Jack Merridew. His actions caused the deaths of these kids, starting from when they all landed on the island to the point of time when the Navy found the kids on the island. He destroyed the little law and order they had on the island, eventually becoming the leader of the boys and making them lead their lives like savages. All of this led up to the destruction of the island and the deaths of Piggy and Simon. Murderer is a word that describes many people in the history of the world; Jack Merridew, the dictator of the savages, can be described by this word.
With no adults on the deserted island, the kids had to …show more content…
As Ernest Hemingway once said, “All things truly wicked start from innocence.” (Hemingway, A Moveable Feast) His actions had to be derived from somewhere because all things are born naïve and innocent according to Hemingway. Jack’s aging could have created the Jack that needed to control everything on the island which led to the brutal murders of two other young, innocent children, even if all things start from innocence. The derived nature of Jack grew as time progressed on the island, making it more apparent that his way of thinking was not as a normal child would …show more content…
His death was also a cause of Jack’s actions for driving fear into the brains of all his tribe’s members. He controlled them using this fear to contort and twist their minds to do his will, which in this case was to kill Piggy. Roger may have “pulled the trigger” but he knew that Jack despised Piggy with all his being, so he assumed that Jack would approve of that course of action that took place. This affected all the boys, whether it was the guilt of another boy dead, or just the feeling of accomplishment after the “enemy” of their tribe had died by their actions to kill Piggy. The loss of Piggy was the final straw for all of the boys on the