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Olivia Deschenes

LOTF mother essay

My name is Margret, mother of Jack Merridew. I was told of the things he did while stranded on that island. He was hunting these pigs like a jungle cat. Jack was obsessed with hunting pigs. He wanted to eat meat even though the trees had plenty of fruit. When he was talking to these two boys, Ralph and Simon, about his hunting trip in the forest his eyes seemed to have madness in them, like a wild animal. He got his hunters, painted his own face with red and white clay and Charcoal first the others. Jack’s mask scared and compelled his friends. He laughed with delight after seeing his new mask when he looked at his reflection is some water. He danced around and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. One of the boys ceased laughing with Jack then ran away because Jack’s mask and behavior scared him. He took two twins, who were supposed to be on fire duty, hunting with him. After Jack and his hunters killed a pig they went toward the mountain while chanting, “//Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.” //By the time Jack and the rest got to the top of the mountain where the fire was, three boys were waiting for them. Jack was telling one of the three boys, Ralph, about how he and his hunters killed the pig, how much blood there was, that he cut the pig’s throat with his knife, and telling him that he should’ve been there. Ralph yelled at Jack that he let the fire go out and that there was a ship. While Ralph was yelling at Jack and that he doesn’t listen to him even though that Jack voted Ralph for chief, Jack was cutting the pig with that knife of his and acted like he didn’t care what was being said to him and letting the fire go out. Jack told Ralph that he needed the twins to make the hunt successful. A boy named Piggy told Jack that he didn’t have to let the fire go out and that Jack said he’d keep smoke signal going. From that and the yelling of agreement from the hunters made Jack violent. He suddenly punched Piggy in the stomach that he fell to the ground from the blow and Jack smacked Piggy’s head making his glasses fly off his face. One of glasses lenses broke as it hit a rock. At one of their meetings Jack called the younger boys cry-babies and sissies because they are afraid of something. Jack called Piggy a fat slug and he was breaking the rules that the boys made. After Jack, his hunters, and Ralph pretended to beat a boar using Robert Jack suggested that next time they should use a little boy for the pig. Jack ran away from the other boys to make his own tribe when they didn’t vote for Jack to be chief. When Ralph called Jack’s name Jack screamed no. The next day Jack got his hunters together they found a female pig, stuck spears in her then tortchured her. Jack was on top the pig and repeatedly stab her until he slit her throat. Jack held out his bloody palms so that his friends could see then he flicked the blood on them. Then Jack grabbed a boy and smeared the blood over his cheeks. Jack gutted the dead pig and put the guts on a rock. Jack cut off the dead pig’s head, got a stick sharpened at both ends, dug the first end into a crack in a rock then put the pig’s head on top as an offering to the “beast”. He got his hunters to raid Ralph’s lot to steal some of their fire to cook the pig. Jack invited all of the boys on the island to bribe them with meat to join his tribe. Jack got his hunters to tie up a boy, Wilfred, to a tree and then Jack beat him for some reason. Jack got three of his savages to steal Piggy’s glasses at nighttime so they can make their own fire. When Ralph, Piggy, and Sam and Eric (the twins) went to Jack’s tribe to get Piggy’s glasses back, Jack challenged Ralph to a fight with their spears. Then Jack got his savages to tie up Sam and Eric. After one of Jack’s savages pushed a giant rock that killed Piggy Jack not even caring what happened screamed wildly at Ralph that will happen to him if he goes to Jack’s tribe. Jack threw his spear at Ralph. The spear tore the skin and flesh over Ralph’s ribs. Jack chased Ralph away then forced Sam and Eric to join his tribe. The next day Jack and his savages hunted Ralph for and unknown reason, pushing stones off the mountain to crush Ralph or make him run in the open, Jack set the island on fire to drive Ralph to his savages, and Jack got Roger to sharpen a stick on both ends. As Jack’s mother, I can’t believe that he did all that. That is not how I raised him I am so very disappointed in him. How did my son turn into a monster? Whenever I look at Jack, I see a shadow of his former self. I don’t know where I went wrong. I didn’t know that he had a knife or where he got it. How could he have done those things, why did he do those things? I taught him to think before acting and to listen to reason instead of jumping to conclusions.