Saturday, November 26, 2011

What is the most important thing that happened in Chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies?

In my opinion, the most important thing that happens in
this chapter is actually two things.  I think that what is important is A) Jack failing
to kill the pig that he is hunting and B) Ralph and Simon failing to do a good job of
building their hut.  I think these are two related events -- they both show failure on
the part of one of the leaders.


Because both of them have
failed, they start to snipe at each other.  They criticize each other for not being good
leaders.  This leads to some really bad blood between the two potential leaders.  The
enmity that starts to build here between Jack and Ralph is a major theme of the rest of
the novel.

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