Jack In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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In William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies the character Jack is revealed as a form of evil by being commanding, unsympathetic, and fierce. Golding reveals these things through certain literary devices such as point of view, selection of detail, and imagery. Jack is a young boy he is tall and skinny with red hair and blue eyes but before we get a physical description of Jack Golding uses the islands imagery to describe Jack. He's pictured as something dark and people are afraid of the dark the passage hints to the fact that Jack is something to be afraid of and we l earn that this dark mass is a group of boys all in line and in sync with each other by being controlled by one boy. We learn that Jack is their leader their commander

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