1-Ralph and Jack view the hunters very differently. Ralph earlier viewed the hunters as a source of help because from the start of the book nobody was really helping Ralph in his efforts to get everyone rescued.But later on Ralph views the hunters as irresponsible, Ralph sees the act of hunting as a distraction. He isn’t against a faction of the boys looking and hunting for food he initially just wants everyone to get their priorities straight. While Jack views the hunters differently , he is fascinated by them.
Jack sees the hunters the the most powerful, exciting, and dynamic group to be a part of, especially as the group’s leader.
2-In chapter 8 Jacks calls the meeting to discuss the issue of the beast,he thinks that the beast is the hunter
because someone in the crowd suggested it when Jack hesitated during his speech. The second reason Jack comments that the beast is a hunter is to amplify the fear among the boys. Jack realizes that if the boys are afraid of the beast, they will look to him to defend them against the beast since he is a hunter. Also, Jack can manipulate the group into thinking that the only way to catch a “hunter” is to be one. Jack, being the leader of the hunters, will then take on more of a leadership role and successfully usurp power from Ralph. Jack seemed to be Pissed at Ralph hence he decided to put Ralph’s leadership to a vote and asked everyone who does not want Ralph to be the chief anymore. The entire place was silent not a single hand went up except Jack’s, he was furious and embarrassed hence he turned his head and walked away from the meeting without even looking back.
3-With the beast looming around the mountain Simon suggests that they should hang kill the beast and hang his head on a stick same as they did to the pg. Everyone started laughing because they think Simon was not making any sense,Simon decides to climb up the mountain because he is the one who was least scared .
Simon‘s conversation with the beast is imagined and comes from within himself, which is where, of course, the beast is in everyone. As Simon imagines a conversation with the pig’s head, the Lord of the Flies, it tells him, “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? When the beast tells Simon he is part of him, Simon understands. This leads the beast to reveal that the reason they haven’t been able to do anything is because the beast is part of them. Their characters are too flawed with evil. Nevertheless his conversation with the beast within himself foreshadows events that will occur later. For instance, at the end of the chapter, Simon imagines that he falls into the mouth of the beast as he slips into his seizure. This foreshadows the violence that will later consume him and the others as they slip into beast-like savage.
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Jack tries to assume the power of chief, but no one votes for him, so he runs off. Angered that Ralph just stood during the confrontation, Piggy relents in his urge to rebuke him and Ralph just says that they can do without Jack Merridew. But Simon suggests that there is, indeed, something to do: “I think we ought to climb the mountain.” But, when the others “shivered with dread,” Simon cuts short his words.
Rather than confront the evil, Piggy is the type who wants to simply avoid it and build a fire on the beach. “We can do without” is Piggy’s attitude. But, the intuitive Simon goes up the mountain and hides in the brush until Jack and the others impale the hunted sow’s head upon a stake that Simon confronts and recognize.
5- The bigger boys go with Jack because they want to be part of the hunt and theywere former choir boys who think they owe allegiance to Jack. They want to show their bravery in the face of “the beast” and get a chance to experience the death of the pig.
6-Toward the end of chapter 8, Jack and his hunters raid Ralph‘s camp during the night to steal Piggy‘s glasses. In order for the hunters to cook their meat, it is imperative that they build a fire. Jack and his hunters plan on using Piggy’s glasses to focus sunlight on dried wood to start a fire so that they can eat their pig meat. In the middle of the night, Jack and his hunters attack Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric while they are sleeping together in a hut. During the struggle, Ralph and Samneric accidentally fight each other in the dark as the hunters make off with Piggy’s glasses. Piggy is nearly blind without his glasses, and he decides to travel to Castle Rock with Ralph and Samneric to retrieve his glasses, which proves to be a fatal decision.
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, Jack forms his own tribe. In their first meeting, he tells the boys that they are going to forget the beast. But he goes on to say that when they kill something, they will leave something for it. He believes, as he stated at the beginning of chapter 8 before he left the assembly, that the beast is a hunter, too. He believes that it could hunt and kill them if they don’t leave a sacrifice for it. Shortly after he declares this at his meeting, he and his hunters kill a pig. They sharpen a stick at both ends: one end to stick into the ground and the other to stick into the head of the killed pig. This is the gift he leaves for the beast. It is this pig’s head that Simon “hears” in his trance. Sacrificing to appease a power has ancient religous roots beginning before recorded time probably.
8-Jack and his tribe came to a conclusion that the hunter is only the pig if they do not offer him something he is going to kill all of them. Jack’s tribe decide to kill a pig, they sharpen both ends of a stick into the ground and hang the killed pig’s head on one of the sharpen sticks.
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The sow’s head in Lord of the Flies is both a literal and figurative element in this novel. The placement of the head is fortuitously close to Simon‘s secret “hideaway.” When he goes there after the head has has time to draw a fog of flies (though its very existence is unknown to him), Simon has one of his fainting spells and the head appears to talk to him in a vision. Figuratively, the sow’s head becomes the Lord of the Flies, taunting and threatening Simon about revealing the truth–that they are the beast. Simon understands this, and the pig head tells him no one will listen to him and warns him not to tell the others what he knows or he will die.
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