When Jack "[outwits] a living thing" and "[imposes his] will upon it", he exhibits his start into savagery and how he gets a thrill from controlling a living thing (Golding 70). ... Additionally, before the death of Piggy, while Roger was dropping stones, "below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat" (Golding 180). ... They boys might not have guilt because hurting an object is different from hurting a living thing. ...

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