Lord of the Flies

Why do you think jack hesitated to kill the piglet?

Why do you think jack hesitated to kill the piglet?

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Jack was not ready for the blood and trauma that comes from taking another life in this way,

They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.

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