and live off the land until they could either escape or be rescued. Many sacrifices were made on this island, such as the innocence of a boy named Jack Merridew. While on this floating prison two of these poor boys were lost and now their parents are blaming Jack for their childrens untimely deaths. Though he is a savage and a horrible person, Jack Merridew can not be held responsible for the murders of Piggy and Simon due to psychosis and other mental illness. The conditions these boys were in were
Although Jack Merridew may seem to embody chaos, he actually symbolizes organization, structure, and totalitarian autocracy. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies takes place during a vicious war. A boarding school full of boys must evacuate their country via aircraft; their plane crashes on an uninhabited island with no adult survivors. The boys must subsist on the island against nature, an imaginary “Beast,” and each other. Ralph is elected leader, implementing a democratic society that ultimately
qualities of a democratic society. Jack, on the other hand, is more of a dictator as he has stated “Conch!Conch! We don’t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things. What good did Simon do speaking, or Bill or Walter? It’s time some people knew they’ve got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us-” (Golding 111). Jack shows complete disregard for the conch and as the conch symbolizes society, he is disregarding society as well. Jack believes certain people should be quiet
I think that Jack has the same values as many people. Many people value success, religion, and money. Jack amplified these values wrongly by being forceful with his lobbying tactics. In the video, he says “I wouldn’t just take congressmen to the local country club to play golf, I’d put them on a plane and send them to Scotland.” Jack exemplified the job of a lobbyist going the farthest that any had that came before him. The whole time that he was breaking the law he thought he was doing right because
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His reason to stop drinking was understandable. Jack had been drinking, and came home drunk, as he often did, and found that Danny had spilled a drink on his writings, leaving them unreadable. Jack lost his temper and as he grabbed Danny, he heard a sharp sound similar to the one of breaking a pencil, as his toddler son’s arm broke. Since that day, Jack had not drank a drop of alcohol. Nevertheless, it did not make the withdrawal any lighter on him
Sal was accompanied by Dean on the road with feelings of meaninglessness and desperation. At the beginning of the traveling he was frustrated by the given location: “And all I could say was, ‘Well, what the hell are we doing in Denver?’” (ibid.: 45). No sooner did Sal arrive at a given destination he desired to leave again, but Dean prefers travelling all around the United States without any exact destination. “It was a completely set of circumstances that made Dean come and similarly I went off
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As soon as I see that word, I begin to see a mystical wonderland of the soft, chilling flakes floating to the ground. I imagine being bundled up with layers of warm clothes trying to stay away from Jack Frost’s wisp of freezing wind. I can feel winter. I can always close my eyes and place myself out into an open field to sense the full presence of snow and ice. One of Frost’s lines is “To watch his woods fill up with snow.” This reminds me when a