Jack's Childhood In Lord Of The Flies

In Golding’s Lord Of The Flies, readers can feel and witness the dangers of a child’s childhood if there isn’t a great role model to help their young minds grow into responsible and civil human beings with important life skills. A child’s childhood is very crucial as they grow. Childhood can be very crucial because it shapes the child’s growth, health, mental/physical skills and more as they age into adulthood. For example in the reading Golding makes Jack a character who is very mean and ruthless, this may lead readers to believe that Jack has had a rough childhood with mean and bossy role models or maybe even worse, no role models at all. Golding’s characters weren’t all like this, for instance, Ralph may have had a great role model(s) …show more content…
Jack admires the way the boys look up to Ralph, and desperately wants to be in charge. This causes Jack to stop listening to Ralph completely, Jack disobeys Ralph by hunting for pigs instead of watching the fire like he was told. As the boys create a fire, it later results in death. This is because the fire ends up spreading too much and killing the young boy with the birthmark, This mainly happens because the boys run off to create the fire before Ralph can tell them how to do it the right way. Readers begin to really witness savagery begin within the storyline. While Jack was hunting, the boys could see a ship in the distance that couldn’t see them because the fire was out. This is because Jack wasn’t on fire watch like he was supposed to. This later results in a massive argument between Ralph and Jack, readers can most definitely infer that this event is a major turning point within the story, this is because the argument not only made Jack very hostile and angry but embarrassed as well. Jack tries to fight over the conch and get everyone to make him chief but fails. Causing Jack to desperately want revenge on