(Chapter 3)Early in the novel there are several signs that the boys' behavior is beginning to degenerate, in three or four sentances each, explain how each acts as a symbol of the emergence of barbarism in the characters. You must also include at least o

I can give you one at a time. Pigs- initially the act of killing a pig is too much for even Jack to follow through with,

They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood. pg 30

This sense of innocence is quickly lost. The pigs are soon hunted. The hunt is performs as much for the violence as for the meat. The boys then hunt a sow. This hunt is even more brutal. The sow is pregnant and the boys revel in the butchery of it. Golding uses disturbing rape imagery in this section.