Monday, April 25, 2016

What are Ralph and Jack worried about in Chapters 3 and 4?

Throughout Chapter 3 and 4, Ralph and Jack are both concerned about different things. In Chapter 3, Ralph's main concern involves building the shelters. Ralph laments that only him and Simon have been laboring on the huts, and they have turned out unstable and shaky. When Ralph confronts Jack about not helping build the shelters, Jack says that his sole focus has been on getting meat. Jack is only worried about providing meat and spends...

Throughout Chapter 3 and 4, Ralph and Jack are both concerned about different things. In Chapter 3, Ralph's main concern involves building the shelters. Ralph laments that only him and Simon have been laboring on the huts, and they have turned out unstable and shaky. When Ralph confronts Jack about not helping build the shelters, Jack says that his sole focus has been on getting meat. Jack is only worried about providing meat and spends most his time on the island hunting pigs. Simon comments the boys need to build shelters because the littluns scream at night and are terrified of the "beast." Ralph says, "As if it wasn't a good island." (Golding 52) Jack also brings up the feeling that he is being hunted by something when he is out in the forest. The boys are clearly worried about the "beast" on the island in Chapter 3. Ralph allows Jack to hunt as long as his group of hunters maintain the signal fire. Another one of Ralph's main concerns is that the signal fire stays lit. In Chapter 4, Ralph spots a ship passing the island, but when he looks at the mountaintop, the signal fire has gone out. Jack's band of hunters were too concerned with killings pigs to maintain the fire. Ralph worries that the boys will never be rescued. Jack seems unconcerned because he was able to kill a pig. The boys' different concerns illuminate the difference in priorities between the two. 

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