Answer to Question #285431 in English for Kelsey Jand

Question

Lord of the Flies Study Guide Questions

Direction: Your answers need to be thorough, and where possible, quote the text (with citation).

Chapter 8

Theme: The central message or idea that a work conveys is the theme. How does the hunt add to the development of the theme? Where does the hunt end? What do the boys do with the pig? Why? The act of placing the sow’s head near the forest glade filled with butterflies and flowers highlights what theme? How is the decline of Jack and his followers to savagery physically displayed?

Answer 1

The hunt furthers the development of the theme as it shows the far the savagery is going and the hunters do not only hunt a pig, but also a mother pig and are ready to hurt even the babies, and eventually they kill the mother.

The hunting ends where the hunters kill a sow, and Roger drove his spear into its anus and leaving its head on a sharpened stake in the jungle as an offering to the beast.

They cut the head off the pig and sharpened a stick at both ends and jammed the stick into the ground and left the skewered head of the sow as an offering to the beast.

The theme here is the loss of innocence due to the way they killed the sow.

They burst on the scene as "demonic figures with white,red and green faces which are normally associated with savages.