Chapter 8 and 9 blog

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 8
"A Gift for the Darkness"

In this chapter I think that the scene in which Jack and his new tribe kill the pig and make the Lord of the Flies is the most terrifying scene. In this scene Jack and his hunters capture and kill a pig. They run after a nursing sow. They first were only able to get a few spears into her flank but after that it was easy to follow her because of the blood that left a path. When they caught up to the sow Jack jumped on top of her. He stabbed her over and over while Roger took his spear stuck it in her and pushed down with all his weight. Jack in the end killed the sow by cutting its throat. They then create an offering for the beast by cutting the pigs head off, and sticking it on a stake in the ground. Jack believes that this is a was they might be able to make friends with the beast, so that it wont bother them. I believe this is the most terrifying scene because of what Jack and his hunters are doing. They cut the pigs head off, stick that on a stake, and they also take out all the pigs guts and place those on the rock near the head. I believe this is very gory and terrifying.

Chapter 9
"View to a Death"

I believe that Jack and the Hunters were the cause of Simon's death. Jack says "Do our dance! Come on! Dance!" This is what starts all the hunters into their "dance." All the hunters use there spears to kill the "beastie." This is when Simon is killed. This is also how Simon was killed. So I believe that if Jack hadn't started the "dance in the first place this would've never happened. But also if the bays hadn't stabbed at some random thing they believed was the beastie Simon would still be alive. I do think that it is mostly Jacks fault for starting the dance in the first place. But it also was an accident. The hunters attacked out of fear that Simon was really the beastie.