Self Destruction In Lord Of The Flies

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The self-destruction caused by his father over the years in Jack childhood has developed in his adulthood to gain the same abusive trait as his father. In the novel his childhood was horribly abusive, his father’s actions later on lead to jacks’ madness to his death. He turned on his family because he believes that they would take away the hotel from him mentioned later in the novel. Jack takes the role of his father and becomes an alcoholic just like him. The drinking developed jack to pick up an abusive attitude, which he happens to use on his family. “He had been drinking the Act II corrections [Before] he had whirled Danny around to spank him… and the snap of breaking bones had not been loud but its been loud, HUGE” When Jack was little …show more content…
The love and hate relationship was coming in effect; he tried to be loving by putting a swing up but the wasp would sting them when they played one it. The wasps would represent Jacks attitude at the end of the novel. He would drink and try to murder his family, it just like a wasp they would get mad and strike you with their stinger. Jack trying to kill them is exactly like a wasp getting mad and stinging someone. After the wasp has stung someone they would die off, so when jack tries to kill them he fails the attempt and dies in the boiler room.It explained the sounds of breaking bones by saying, “Loud but its been loud HUGE” meaning the actually sound of the bones wasn't loud at all but the memory of the situation will always be implanted in Danny's head. It’s one of those occasions that you just can't forget about. This ai a great early example exhaling what happens when jack drinks, he get aggressive and is just hurtful unintentionally. It doesn't hide the fact that his father was a still destructive `towards the family. Towards the end that's when we see a really distinct resemblance to his father when jack felt that Wendy or Danny wasn't behaving he would try to punish