Gift for the Darkness

Dear Mother,

Character Journal Chapter 8

After all the predictions that were made as a final point jack has broken away from the group and formed his own tribe. Jack has decided he doesn’t need to take orders from anyone to any further extent and especially not Ralph. Over the course of time that the kids have been stranded on the island Jack has showed jealousy of Ralph but now he has decided that he doesn’t need jack to tell him he can be leader. So by being leader of his own tribe I think this symbolizes the break of Ralphs rule over jack and maybe this is foreshadowing the fact that Jack will Rule over Ralph someday. Now that Jack has formed his own tribe he starts off with what he does best, hunting. At the beginning of the book I said that Jack was loosing part of his civilized side but now it’s gone to a point that he has no civilized part in him left. Jack has turned into a real savage that doesn’t have any interest in going back to his nice polite ways. And jack has influenced the rest of the hunters to do the same.

Jack starts hunting by going after a Sow. He injures the sow but he isn’t able to kill it, but because of his lack of civilized ways he doesn’t stop until he found the poor sow and ended its life by stabbing it until it squealed no more. I think that the sow symbolizes Jack and the rest of the hunter’s capacity of not giving up. It shows that Jack has turned into a person that won’t take no for an answer, and this may cause danger for Ralph and his tribe. Once Jack killed the sow, that didn’t satisfy him enough, and to show his fierceness he striped the head of the carcass and put it on a stick. In my opinion, Jack does this in order to scare Ralph’s tribe and let them know not to mess with them. I think jack wants to send the message of join me or don’t get in my way to Ralph’s tribe.

Simon is the only person who is undecided between the two tribes. When Jack decided to split into his own tribe Simon seemed as if he was favoring jacks tribe. But since the beginning of the book Simon was that innocent boy who loved nature and he will certainly go with Ralph’s tribe. But something happened to Simon when he met the lord of the flies, which I think is the devil himself. This encounter with the lord of the flies may change his perspective of things just because of fear.

My predictions For the rest of the book is that Simon will join Jacks tribe just because of fear and his guilt will make him betray Jacks tribe to do what he thinks is right.

Forever Ralph