How could an innocent twelve-year-old from military school, become a gang leader? In the Lord of the Flies, a young British boy named Jack becomes exactly that. During his time on the island, he broke off from Ralph’s group and recruited others to create a savage gang. The group’s violent actions, burglary, and recruitment is idiotic, but with Jack’s leadership they were just being obedient. Jack’s behavior towards the end of the novel closely mirrors that of a gang leader. A gang is essentially a group of people acting together to do harmful things. This can include murder, destruction of property, stealing, and many other things. Also, gangs tend to have a symbol or ritual where they establish themselves as part of the group, and they
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In the book, Jack leads a group of his allies to raid Ralph’s shelters in the middle of the night. Together Jack and his friends rushed into the tent, stole piggy’s glasses, used for fire and destroyed their shelter. Not only is Jack stealing something that isn’t his he is also destroying the property of his rival. Gangs often have rivals, where they compete for territory and Jack was clearly destroying the property of his rival Ralph. This also correlates to gang behavior, because it involved two rival groups or gangs fighting on the island, which often occurs on the streets as …show more content…
Usually, they plan the killings of an opposing gang member. In the Lord of the Flies, that opposing member was Piggy who was, unfortunately, the victim of gang violence. When Jack established his camp at Castle Rock he set up a rig that would allow a boulder to fall down a path killing any unwanted intruder. Angrily, Piggy delivered a speech that sent Jack’s crew into delirium and “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever”(Golding pg. 260) and “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee”(Golding pg. 260). Jack’s group also violently killed Simon claiming they thought it was the beast. When they saw the beast (Simon), “the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.” (Golding 219) Gangs are very centered around murder as was Jack’s group and it is a large part of their lifestyle. Many gangs use killing as an initiation or way to be part of a gang. So even if you’re eight years old you’re still expected to kill a rival gang member to be part of the gang. This killing at a young age is also seen in Lord of the
In the book, Jack leads a group of his allies to raid Ralph’s shelters in the middle of the night. Together Jack and his friends rushed into the tent, stole piggy’s glasses, used for fire and destroyed their shelter. Not only is Jack stealing something that isn’t his he is also destroying the property of his rival. Gangs often have rivals, where they compete for territory and Jack was clearly destroying the property of his rival Ralph. This also correlates to gang behavior, because it involved two rival groups or gangs fighting on the island, which often occurs on the streets as …show more content…
Usually, they plan the killings of an opposing gang member. In the Lord of the Flies, that opposing member was Piggy who was, unfortunately, the victim of gang violence. When Jack established his camp at Castle Rock he set up a rig that would allow a boulder to fall down a path killing any unwanted intruder. Angrily, Piggy delivered a speech that sent Jack’s crew into delirium and “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever”(Golding pg. 260) and “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee”(Golding pg. 260). Jack’s group also violently killed Simon claiming they thought it was the beast. When they saw the beast (Simon), “the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.” (Golding 219) Gangs are very centered around murder as was Jack’s group and it is a large part of their lifestyle. Many gangs use killing as an initiation or way to be part of a gang. So even if you’re eight years old you’re still expected to kill a rival gang member to be part of the gang. This killing at a young age is also seen in Lord of the