jack starts the fire to get ralph out of his hiding
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He succeeded in taking Piggy's glasses to start a fire.
It is Jack's idea to use Piggy's glasses to start the fire. Jack steals the glasses right off of Piggy's face without even asking him first.
At the start of chapter twelve Jack lit a fire in an attempt to smoke Ralph out of his hiding place in the thicket close to castle rock. The fire simply got out of control, Jack did not intend to set fire to the entire island, including all the fruit trees and the pigs.
It's because they don't have Piggy's glasses with which to start the fire.
Ralph thinks that the beast on top of the mountain top is preventing them from the fire