Key to Jack's success as a hunter is his "discovery" that
the pig's "don't smell me. They see me, I think. Something pink, under the trees." To
the sadistic Roger, Jack explains, as he smears clay on his face, that they need to
appear to look like something else--"Like moths on a tree trunk." Golding writes that
"Roger understood and nodded gravely."
Jack's desire to
dissemble his savage intentions are evinced in Chapter Three with his discussion of how
to hunt the pigs, for "Now the antagonism was audible." As an indication of Jack's
descent into savagery, he puts his "nose to the ground," only a few inches from the
humid earth, he moves in an "ape-like" manner, hissing in the air, and squats,"streaked
with brown earth," while holding his spear that is a sharpened stick, and wearing his
knife-belt.
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