How a person changes when he or she is confronted by danger or tremendous
stress can reveal alot abou thier character. Do they spring into action or do they bow thier
head in defeat? In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding contains a character
named Jack that under goes a drastic change because of the danger and stress that is
around him.
     In Lord of the Flies a plane evacuating a group of English boys from Britain is
shot down over a deserted tropical island. Marooned the boys choose leaders. Jack is
chosen to lead the hunters while another boy named Ralph ios named the groups supreme
leader. This is where Jack’s change begins. The fact that he is not elected the leader of
the whole group angers him due to the fact that he is older than Ralph. When Ralph,
Simon, and Jack go out to explore the island they stumble upon a wild pig. Jack, being
the leader of the hunters, tries to kill it but is unsucessful. This furthers Jack change as
his anger rises closer to the surface. Later open hostility shows up between Ralph and
Jack because Ralph blaims Jack of avoiding work. The same night Jack loses his temper
with Piggy and strikes him across the face. At this point his change reaches its half way
point. After this the degree of Jack’s change is displayed througth the amount of teasing
that he directs towards Piggy. Jack shows signs of reverting back to his original state
when him and Ralph begin to reastablish thier bond while searching for a monster that
two of the boys claimed to have seen. This does not last long however. Jack begins to
question Ralph’s leadership and bravery and calls him a coward. When the other boys
stick with Ralph, Jack becomes enraged. This begins Jack’s final change. The peak of
this final change comes when Jack begins to address a dead sow’s head as The Lord of
the Flies. From this point on Jack as lost all of his humanity and become no more than an
animal. In his new animal state Jack is responsible for the deaths of Piggy, Simon, and
tries to kill Ralph. Jack also sets the forest on the island on fire. Jack’s change is very
clear trough these action.
     Jack’s character goes through a serious change because of his the circumstances of
his crash. Jack goes from and innocent boy to a barbaric and creul killer. This change is
clearly because of the enviroment that he was sent into. If that plane had crash in an
urbanized region i do not believe this change would have taken place.