Chapter 3, Huts on the Beach
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- Chapter 3, Huts on the Beach
- Summary
- Time has passed, we see Jack his bare back a "mass of dark freckles and peeling sunburn"
- Jack obsessed with hunting and killing a pig. To the point of tracking droppings
- Suggest Jack is becoming an animal himself. Primitive and furtive
- After failing to catch another pig, Jack puts the blame on Ralph and Simon who are building shelters
- Fear of beastie is continued.
- Jack suggests have "painted faces, they could sneak up on the pigs"
- Littleuns follow Simon into the forest, he helps them pick fruit.
- Simon travels deeper until "the creepers had woven a great mat that hung at the side of an open space in the jungle"
- Why this chapter is important
- Jacks obsession of killing a pig is halted by a remaining shred of humanity
- Loss of innocence as Jack seeks to take the life of a creature.
- Continued distress over beastie, demonstrateslack of maturity naive nature
- Character conflicts
- Savagery confronts civilisation. While Ralph and Simon build shelter, Jack only hunts-without success
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