Jack

Cards (14)

  • ‘Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked around challengingly’ (C2) (Jack and violence)
  • ‘Jack snatched the glasses off his face’ (C2) (Jack as violent)
  •  ‘ “I cut the pig’s throat” said Jack, proudly’ (C3) (Jack as violent)
  • ‘ “I had to go on. I-“  He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill what was swallowing him up’ (C3) (Jack as monomaniacal)
  • ‘The conch doesn’t count at the top of the mountain’ (C2) (Jack and dictatorship)
  • ‘ The boy who controlled them’ (Jack and dictatorship)
  • ‘Kill the beast. Cut his throat. Spill his blood.’ (jack and savagery)
  • ‘He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling’ (C4) (Jack and savagery)
  • ‘Cradling his spear’ (C7) (Jack and savagery)
  • ‘dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort’ (C2) (Jack and savagery)
  • ‘ He looked down at the blood on his hands and grimaced distastefully… then wiped them on his shorts and laughed’ (C3) (Jack and evil)
  • ‘ From his left hand dangled Piggy’s glasses’ (C10) (Jack and evil)
  • 'The two boys faced each other. There was a brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration , skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common sense' (C4)
  • 'The head is for the beast. It's a gift. The silence accepted the gift' (C8)