Lord Of The Flies Hunt Quotes
On pages 52-53 of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, one of the main characters, Jack, describes how he feels during a hunt. In Jack’s statement “If you’re hunting sometime you catch yourself feeling as if... you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but- being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle” (53). This statement is significant because just as the littluns are afraid of the beast that is on the island, Jack feels as if he was being hunted in the jungle while he was trying to hunt. This is also a key quote in the novel because Jack is a very loud, strong-minded, and fearless character, but he can still connect his fear of being alone in the jungle to the littluns fear of the beast. This shows that Jack too believed