Imagery In Lord Of The Flies Chapter 3

Imagery Paragraph In chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies, Golding uses snake imagery to describe Jack in order to show that when humans are placed in a different environment will change and become more animalistic. To illustrate, Jack goes hunting for a pig in the forest and “He passed his tongue across dry lips and scanned the uncommunicative forest” (Golding 48), like a snake. Suggesting that Jack’s natural instincts are that of a snake-like and not like the tame Jack the novel introduced him as. Before Jack entered the forest as a hunter he was a chapter chorister and head boy that can sing C sharp after he entered the forest he became more animal like than human, he and his choir boys where the only ones to keep their dark cloak on during the