In this part, the imagery that Golding uses fit to describing an animal’s actions or behavior.
Jack reacted same as animal, he moved along on all fours not walking upright. He smelt the air like dog or wolf to see if he could detect from the pigs any fresh droppings. Jack was angry because he missed “the promise of meat “.
It seems Jack lost much of human’s behavior. He demonized to savagery. Jack driven by animal instinct to kill and hunt. The most savage and the most basic of all strong barbarity desire.
2. As far as I remember, glasses represent scientific and knowledge.
Science could have positive attribute. In the book, Jack and Ralf used piggy’s glasses to kindle fire. In addition, it could be represented ability to “see”. When Jack broken piggy’s glasses, Piggy told them “I got to have them spaces. Now I only got one eye”. …show more content…
Same as atomic energy or some genetic engineering. These could use to helping human or against to them. Same as atomic bomb, which killed more than thousands of Japanese, people on 1945.
It seems Golding simile glasses to knowledge and remind us the both way of using them especially when we have power.
3. Ralf was clever boy. He was looking for a way to rescue. He tried out make a fire to produce smoke to be seen by ships. He tried to build safe place as huts to be stay in critical condition same as storm. He was more long-sighted than the other boys were. He recognized piggy’s intellectualism.
He had natural leader and diplomat personality. Ralf could balance between caution and sense and he tried gather boys in a group and gave them hope for rescue.
About Jack, it seems Golding simile him and his behavior to show us the dark side of human nature. Jack was seeking to be leader, to have control over other