Jack- Characters (Ruby)

[Tenderness in Roughness]
      Jack is the character in Task 3. He is from the novel, Lord of the Flies. He and some friends were shot down on this island on their way to escape the war. He became so in love with savage life here and tried to kill other fellows who held different opinion with him such as their leader, Ralph. When others were rescued by the English navy, Jack decided to stay on this island alone and hunted every day. 

Fig 1. Jack  teased his fellows  about their silly decision of leaving 10 years ago. 

Jack exercised every day and became very strong. He spend his ten years here and met two friends, Lady Medusa and Robinson. He liked to wear only underwear in order to show off his muscles to them and invite them to exercise with him.

Fig 2. Jack showed off his muscles to the world yet only Robinson and Medusa were the audience.  

The years did not washed away Jack's tenderness inside the wrap of savage toughness.Even though Jack was autocratic, he showed his kindness and tenderness toward the ones he cared about He hunted food and made delicious barbecue for Lady Medusa and Robinson every day. And he never revealed tiredness because that's what he liked and they were who he was concerned with.

Fig 3. Jack and the delicious BBQ he made.

Fig 4. Jack was proud of his cooking talent.

His tenderness reveals not only in the dining part. For example, the conch was the stuff he cherished so deeply. There had been a tradition during the Lord of the Flies period that whoever got the conch could have the rights to speak. Consequently, the conch represented power and control. However, Jack was willing to let the visitors touch the conch. He even built two  tongue twister boards to have fun with them. He thought that these interesting games might relieve the visitors since they just arrived in this unfamiliar savage island. He tried his best to make the visitors fall in love with this savage paradise as he did ten years ago.

Fig 5. Jack invited visitors to touch the conch and say out the tongue twister.

Moreover, Jack created his own tattoo on his chest, back and two arms. The only two colors were red and black which both got from the plants on the island. Red symbolized his passion and black his loyalty. The image on his chest was inspired by his mental savageness. Like a monster eager to devour all the creatures with its giant red eyes and cruel mouth.

Fig 6. Jack's tattoo on his chest and two arms.

  Yet on Jack's back was a tattoo with a cute face which hinted his inner child-like characteristic. Jack had stayed on this savage island when he was 12 years old. Even though time flied, his mind remained as a child which stayed with the wildness of hunting.

Fig 7. Jack's tattoo on his back. 

I could still recall the voice, the body and the kindness of Jack. He taught me their dialect patiently and hunted food for us visitors. I must be drunk to choose to go back to the civilized prison in the end of the challenges at that time. But I would never forget the incredible journey on the savage paradise. Now I could finally realized why it was called a paradise. Maybe one day I would wake up and found myself standing on the beach, enjoy the flavor of the most delicious BBQ, and feel the freedom of savageness with Jack. 

Fig 8. Jack would standing there waiting for me.