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Why did jack hesitate to kill the piglet? What does this suggest about him?

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User Usretc
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Jack cannot handle the enormity of the act of killing. For all his boastful talk, he cannot bring himself to plunge his knife into living flesh.
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User Pinky
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If this is lord of the flies jack didnt kill the piglet because he did not want to be a savage.
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