Jack - Character Revision
- Created by: PointlessPink
- Created on: 22-05-15 00:39
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- Jack
- First Impressions
- He has red hair - could represent his temperament.
- Sounds quite evil and sinister at the start.
- "The choir crawled along the beach like a creature."
- "His cap badge was golden."
- High-up and talented.
- He doesn't care about others. Quite selfish.
- "He's always throwing a faint."
- Inconsiderate to Simon's epilepsy.
- "He's always throwing a faint."
- "He had a small sheathed knife."
- The island's first danger!
- Social Superiority
- He doesn't regard himself like a child.
- "Kids' names."
- He could believe that because he was quite authoritative when in charge of the choir, he isn't regarded a child like the other boys.
- "I'm Merridew."
- Isn't spoken to by his first name, common to how boys talk to their teachers.
- "I'm Merridew."
- The choir seem to be dictated by Jack.
- "The choir voted with dreary obedience."
- They didn't vote through enthusiasm?! I wonder why...
- "The choir voted with dreary obedience."
- "I ought to be chief. I am chapter chorister and can sing C sharp."
- He doesn't regard himself like a child.
- Jack is aggressive
- He suggests the choir should be the hunters.
- "We'll be hunters."
- Jack jokes about killing a child when Robert says they need a pig to kill during their dance.
- Regard littl'uns to be less important and significant.
- "Let's use a littl'un."
- He's inconsiderate and cruel towards Piggy.
- "We mustn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?" in a queer tight voice."
- Mocks Ralph.
- Breaks Piggy's glasses and punches Piggy in the stomach.
- "Shut up - Fatty!"
- "We mustn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?" in a queer tight voice."
- He suggests the choir should be the hunters.
- Cannot bring himself to hunt at the beginning.
- "The enormity of the knife cutting into living flesh."
- "The unbearable blood."
- Jack finds the thought of killing things immoral and cruel. So he cannot bring himself to do it.
- Blood-thirsty
- In the end, Jack becomes more hyped about killing than being rescued.
- He let the fire go out to hunt a pig.
- "compulsion to track down and kill."
- "I'd like to catch a pig first."
- He loses touch with his human civilisation side.
- "painted and garlanded like an idol."
- He doesn't want to be human. Tribe-like.
- "Come on! Do our dance."
- Ritual-like and frightening.
- "Come on! Do our dance."
- He doesn't want to be human. Tribe-like.
- "Stark naked."
- He won't wear clothes as this is what humans do.
- "crouched.... dog-like"
- Very animal-like and predatory.
- "his laugh becomes a bloodthirsty snarl"
- "painted and garlanded like an idol."
- "We sacrifice the pig's head to the beast!"
- In the end, Jack becomes more hyped about killing than being rescued.
- Wants control
- Megalomaniac! He wants power!
- He uses the fact of the beast to control the children.
- "If there is a beast, we'll hunt and kill it!"
- "power chattered in his ear."
- "******** to the rules!"
- Wants to break free from other people's authority.
- Creates his own tribe.
- "If you want to hunt and kill the beast, follow me."
- "Give me a drink!"
- "The conch doesn't work on this side of the island."
- First Impressions
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