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Jack In The Book Jack And His Hunter
In this section of the book Jack, and his hunter are at an all time high kill animals. Although they use the meat wisely the enjoyment they get out of killing an animal is sickening. The quote on page 135 is the main point the author is trying to say. Left alone unguided young kids will lose their innocence. When think of a young boy you never think of a young killer who is wild with blood lust. Although it is hard to blame them since they probably don’t grasp the concepts of wrong and rightful. They do partly understand it’s wrong which is why Jack puts on his mask before killing with his power.

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Jack is only going to have a large thirst for blood. You can tell this by the escalation of his use of power. After killing Simon on “accident”,


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