Why does jack hesitate to kill the piglet in the lord of the flies?

Answer 1

Because he doesn't like him

Its sort of a Logic and Intelligence(Piggy) vs. Bloodlust and Savaregy(Jack) thing that Golding might've thought of.

Basically Jack wants to have power and be the leader. At a time when he feels that he has just proven his prowness as a hunter Ralph has reasserted his own leadships over the incident of letting the fire out. Jack has already punched Piggy, who he dislikes but also sees as an easy target and a way of getting at Ralph. Jack then refuses to give Piggy any meat as a further display of his own power. Jack killed the pig and Jack chooses who eats it, not Ralph.

Answer 2

Jack's character is symbolic of society in the novel. He is unable to kill because he alone still retains his humanity.

Another answer: Jack was initially unable to kill the piglet in Lord of the Flies because he was an English schoolboy who was the head boy in a choir and he had probably never had to kill anything before in his life. It is easy to say, 'I will kill a pig' it is a different matter to be confronted with a terrified squealing animal and be faced with the prospect of plunging your knife into its living flesh. Understandably Jack flinched. Feeling embarrassed by his failure to kill the piglet Jack vowed that next time he would kill. Jack then became positively obsessed with the idea of hunting and killing pigs. Far from being alone in maintaining his humanity Jack actively went out iof his way to kill. It also became obvious from his comments and his reaction to the deaths of Simon and Piggy, and his hunting of Ralph, that killing was what was important to him, not the pigs.

Answer 3

Jack does not kill the piglet in chapter one because he is just a boy. He was the head boy in a choir, he probably came from a priviledged background, and had never had to kill anything before in his life. It is one thing to say "I will a pig" but it is another thing entirely to stab a squealing terrified young animal to death, to feel the knife slicing through living flesh. It is hardly surprising that in those circumstances Jack baulked and failed to stab the piglet.

Answer 4

Jack was the head boy of a choir. He had probably never had to kill anything before in his entire life. It is quite easy to say that you will kill something but it is a different matter to actually do it. When confronted with a terrified squealing piglet Jack baulked at the thought of plunging a knife into it's living flesh, which is hardly surprising.

Answer 5

because he really feels sorru for him, its a metaphor showing how the sea and land take mercy of the human, or how human takes mercy of natural environment due to the help it has provided. Nevertheless, given he NEEDS to do it, he kills piglet like human destroys environment

Answer 6

He was choosing a place, he was waiting a moment to decide where to stab it

Answer 7

Jack is one of the characters in the story "Lord of the Flies", by William Golding. He was unable to kill the pig because of the moral propriety that society instilled in him.

Answer 8

with a spear.