... if you're not hunting, but--being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle." Jack and his hunters paint their faces to look like masks. Hiding behind the masks, they are able to slaughter a pig. Afterward Jack and the hunters re-enact the killing with one of the boys pretending to be the pig. Later in the ... person holding the conch had the power, and it created order and rules since when it was called, everyone had to listen. Many of the boys wore a uniform e.g. Jack and the rest of the choirboys wore long black cloaks. This symbolises the age of the boys-still ...

• Word Count: 1959
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... island they are a very civilized lot,"The creature was a party of boys, dressed in strangely eccentric clothing. Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each ... purposes of hunting the pig grew alongside the savageness that was slowly coming out of Jack and the other kids. Soon it became something else. The face paint became their masks, the chance to act outside of civilized man...

• Word Count: 921
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... cruel act proved the presence of the boys" inner force in the beast form within themselves. The uncontrolled society on the island was confronted by tyranny and violence. The boys wore masks of savagery and chose to live in a state of anarchy. Jack's tribe mistook Simon as the beast "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" Ironically he attempted to ... ...

• Word Count: 553
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School