Chapter 8

I think that the most disturbing part of chapter 8 is when the boys catch the sow and basically torture it. I think that one of the reasons that this is so disturbing to me is because it is a very barbaric thing for the boys to do. The first reason that it is so scary, is because you see signs of the evil in the boys, especially Roger and Jack. You see Roger hurting the sow in a horrible way while Jack stabs it to death. The boys are becoming more barbaric and savage. It is very scary when the boys decide to put the sows head on a stick because Simon is watching them.
Simon is the one who notices that the boys becoming the beast. He was the one that predicted that the only beast on the island is the boys themselves. He has started to hallucinate about the pig's head talking to him and he thinks that the sow's head on a stick is the beastie. I think one of the other reasons that this chapter is so disturbing is because of the conflict between all of the boys. Jack leaves at the beggining of the chapter and the boys start to separate. This is the most disturbing chapter in the book so far. The boys are beggining to show real barbaric tendencies. Not just little boys playing around at being grown-ups or being mean. They are actually starting to be so mean to their fellow boys. And, they are beggining to torture the sows instead of just playing around and ending up killing them. It is a very barbaric chapter.