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Jack becomes obsessed with hunting pigs but continues to miss his shots. He argues with Ralph about focusing on hunting over building shelters. Ralph and Simon are the only ones building shelters as the other boys play. Simon notices the island seems haunted, and Jack also feels hunted in the jungle. Their disagreement over responsibilities threatens to undermine their group.

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Chapter 3

Jack becomes obsessed with hunting pigs but continues to miss his shots. He argues with Ralph about focusing on hunting over building shelters. Ralph and Simon are the only ones building shelters as the other boys play. Simon notices the island seems haunted, and Jack also feels hunted in the jungle. Their disagreement over responsibilities threatens to undermine their group.

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Previous Lord of the Flies: Chapter 3


Chapter 2
Summary & Analysis

Themes and Colors Key      !

Summary Analysis

It's weeks later. In the deep silence of the Jack becomes obsessed with killing a
jungle, Jack tracks a pig and hurls his pig, but some shred of civilization still
spear at it. As usual, he misses. Jack holds him back.
returns to the beach, frustrated and
ACTIVE THEMES
angry.
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On the beach, Ralph and Simon are Savagery confronts civilization: as Jack
building huts. Ralph is frustrated because hunts, Ralph builds shelters. Note that
only he and Simon are working on the only Simon helps Ralph build the huts.
huts, which are falling apart. He
ACTIVE THEMES
complains to Jack that everyone else is
off playing or hunting. 
Ralph's complaint offends Jack. Ralph The instinct toward savagery cannot be
points out that all the hunters except Jack conveyed in words. Language is a
came back hours ago, and are now product of the civilization that Jack is
swimming and playing. Jack tries to abandoning.
explain his obsession with catching and
ACTIVE THEMES
killing a pig, but can't find the words.

Ralph and Jack argue whether hunting is Savagery again clashes with
as important as building shelters. civilization.

ACTIVE THEMES

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Ralph says they need shelters because Simon's sense of the island is mystical,
many of the boys are scared. Simon as if it's haunted. Jack, a hunter, feels
observes that it is as if the island is bad, hunted himself. But the boys have yet
not the good island Ralph described in to figure out what is haunting the
Chapter 2. Jack agrees. While hunting in island.
the jungle, he says, he often feels like he's
ACTIVE THEMES
the one who's being hunted.

Ralph puts the focus of the conversation Civilized Ralph builds shelters out of
back on getting rescued. He mentions necessity. Civilization suppresses the
Jack and the hunter's responsibility for desire to "have fun" by making people
the fire, which causes another argument. feel shame for not acting responsibly.
Jack claims hunting is work. Ralph shouts Successful societies suppress the
that while Jack likes hunting, he's stuck beast, but never destroy it.
building shelters for the good of
ACTIVE THEMES
everyone, not for pleasure. They go for a
swim that just barely manages to cool 
down their anger.

Simon slips away into the forest. He Unlike the civilized Ralph, Simon enjoys
helps some of the younger boys gather building shelters. Unlike the savage
fruit, then finds a beautiful glade hidden Jack, Simon is perfectly comfortable
by creeper vines. He sneaks inside and and unafraid in the jungle.
contemplates the island's sights and
ACTIVE THEMES
sounds in a kind of spiritual meditation.

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