Primitive Roots?Does our primitive nature come back to us if we are in need of it or is allforgotten about are primitive background? In William Goldings novel Lordof the Flies such a situation occurs. These results also are seen later inthe story when almost everyone has turned wild. In the selected sectionof this book from pages forty-eight and forty-nine, Jack shows how theprimitive roots of are ancestors can easily resurface. From this section thereader can identify that the wild or primitive side of man can easily comeback to those who need it or just happen to stumble on it. At this point in the passage Jack is hunting a pig in the forest all alone. First there is when the author writes He closed his eyes, raised his headand breathed in gently with flared nostrils, assessing the current of warmair for information.
This is just one of the thought less, primitivethings Jack does while hunting the pig. The reason it is thought less isbecause a current of warm air does not hold any information for a man, butfor an animal it would. Next the reader can recognize that he is becomingmore wild like when the author describes the way Jack is sitting Thendog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, Nonormal boy or girl would do something that made them hurt if they didntknow it would. Finally it is recognized that Jack is almost totally ananimal when this quote is read Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hissof indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtivething, ape-like among the tangle of trees. This last quote shows thereader that Jack was becoming like the animal that we probably descendedfrom.Category: Book Reports
