Jack holds up his bloodied arm, which he claims the boar grazed with its tusks. … Excited, they reenact the chase among themselves with a boy named Robert
playing the boar
. They dance, chant, and jab Robert with their spears, eventually losing sight of the fact that they are only playing a game.
Why does Robert insist they need a real pig rather than someone to pretend to be a pig?
Ralph’s participation in the hunt for the boar and in the sadistic attacks on Robert illuminate for all of the boys the dominance of the culture represented by Jack. He says they need a real pig rather than a pretend one
because he just about got killed when he was pretending to be the pig
.
What does Ralph do when the boys start to play putting Robert in the part of the pig What feeling does Ralph have?
In fun, Ralph pushes
Robert and takes a half-hearted jab at him with his spear
, as if her were a pig during a hunt. Soon a few others join in and then Jack calls everyone to circle around the pig (Robert). It is a rather frightening thing to see Ralph join in this game which quickly becomes more deadly.
Why was Jack upset with the Littluns?
How did Jack feel about the littluns? He didn’t like them. They were useless and crybabies.
He insulted them very harshly
.
What disturbing thing do the group of hunters and Ralph do immediately after their encounter with the pig?
After the group of hunters and Ralph encounter the pig,
they pretend that Robert is the pig and jab at him with their spears
. They chant “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig!
What or who saves Ralph in the end?
What or who saves Ralph in the end? Fleeing from the fire,
Jack, and his hunters
, Ralph makes it to the beach, and is met by a naval officer. Jack and his hunters stop trying to attack Ralph when they see the officer, so that is what ultimately saves him.
What did Ralph desperately pray?
Before they were attacked, what did Ralph “desperately pray?” He prayed
that beast would prefer the littuns instead of him
.
Who Killed Simon?
Towards the end of chapter 8, Simon is viciously murdered by
the group of boys
during a severe tropical storm. After Simon climbs the mountain and discovers that the beast is actually the decaying corpse of a dead paratrooper, he travels across the island to inform the boys of his new discovery.
Did they use a real pig in Lord of the Flies?
The production company obtained the dead pig from a slaughter house and used the actual head in filming
. Because an animal was actually killed during the filming, in the case of the puffer fish, we are rating Lord of the Flies “Unacceptable”.
Does Jack cry at the end of Lord of the Flies?
Jack has led the hunt which has caused Ralph to run for his life. Jack has been jealous of Ralph since they were stranded on the island. Truly,
Jack has lost his sense of what is right and wrong
. For this reason, Ralph cries.
Why does Jack not like Ralph?
Jack
is jealous that Ralph was chosen as the leader and hates the fact that he initially does not have authority over the entire group of boys
. Later on in the novel, Jack begins to hate Ralph because he views him as a threat to his authority. … Ralph begins to hate Jack when Jack refuses to follow through with orders.
How does Jack keep the beast happy?
Jack suggests a way to keep the beast happy. What is it? Jack suggests that in order to keep the beast happy,
they should stay off the mountain and give the beast an offering of the sow’s head mounted on a stick and her guts.
Is Maurice a Littlun?
The bigguns are the group that most of the story revolves around and includes Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Roger, Sam, Eric, and Bill. Simon, Robert, and Maurice
are a little younger
, and so their grouping is more difficult.
Who kills Piggy?
Roger
, the character least able to understand the civilizing impulse, crushes the conch shell as he looses the boulder and kills Piggy, the character least able to understand the savage impulse.
Why does Simon go off alone?
In Chapter 7 of Lord of the Flies, Simon goes off alone to
alert Piggy that they would be returning after dark
.
What does Jack claim to feel behind him when he hunts?
However, when Ralph tells him that the lill’uns are frightened at night and, therefore, shelters need to be built, Jack confesses
his uneasiness in the forest
, saying that he sometimes feels as though something is behind him in the jungle.
