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Once Jack is certain that Ralph is hiding in the thicket he puts two different plans into effect. Firstly a boulder is levered from the top of castle rock and sent crashing into the thicket. When this fails to kill Ralph or drive him out of hiding Jack puts his second plan into effect. He lights a fire, hoping to smoke Ralph out of hiding, and unintentionally sets the entire island on fire.
jack starts the fire to get ralph out of his hiding
setting the forest on fire
He asks him "Why do you hate me?"
The boy with the birthmark brings it up in chapter 2. The other "littleuns" urge him forward in the assembly, and he tells Ralph and Jack about the nightmare that he had.