Lord of the Flies (1963)
Tom Chapin: Jack
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Quotes
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Jack : I agree with Ralph! We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English! And the English are best at everything!
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Ralph : Piggy will look after them.
Jack : [interrupts, sarcastically] That's right, keep Piggy out of danger.
Ralph : Haven't you got any sense? How can Piggy help with only one eye?
Ralph : Jack, is there anywhere on this island where we haven't been?
Jack : There's only- of course! The tail-end part, where the rocks pile up!
[Cut to Piggy hearing another boy crying]
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Piggy : [as the boys are talking about the beast] I don't believe in no ghosts, ever.
Jack : Who cares what YOU believe, Fatty!
[the boys laugh]
Simon : [looking disturbed] Maybe if there is a beast...
[the boys laugh again]
Ralph : Hear him! He's got the conch.
Simon : What I mean is... maybe, it's only us.
Piggy : Nuts!
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Piggy : You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might've gone home!
Jack : We needed meat.
Piggy : You didn't ought to have let the fire go out!
[Jack slaps Piggy across the face making Piggy's glasses fall off]
Piggy : My specs!
Simon : [picks them up] Here. Here they are.
[Piggy puts them on but realizes one of the lenses have cracked and missing pieces]
Piggy : [vengefully] JUST YOU WAIT!
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Piggy : I didn't vote for no ghosts, remember that all of you
Jack : You shut up, you fat slug!
Piggy : [as Jack tries to wrestle the conch out of his hands] I've got the conch!
Ralph : Oh, Jack, let him speak! He's got the conch
Jack : [to Ralph] And YOU shut up! Who are you, anyway, just sitting there telling people what to do? You can't hunt! You can't sing!
Ralph : I'm chief, I was chosen!
Jack : Why should choosing make any difference? Telling people what to do...
Ralph : Piggy's got the conch!
Jack : That's right, favour Piggy as you always do!
Ralph : Jack!
Jack : [Mocking Ralph] Jack! Jack!
Ralph : The rules, you're breaking the rules!
Jack : Who cares?
Ralph : Because the rules are the only thing we've got!
Jack : Bollocks to the rules! We're strong, we hunt. If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down, and beat, and beat!
[All the boys except Ralph, Piggy, and Simon scream and run further down the beach]
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Jack : First, you know now we've seen the beast. We crawled up, we were only a few feet away. The beast stopped and looked at us
Ralph : I don't think we could fight a thing that size, honestly you know. We're tall, but we couldn't fight a tiger. We'd hide, even Jack would hide
Jack : What about my hunters?
Ralph : [Unconvinced] Boys armed with sticks?
Jack : Alright then!
[to all the other boys]
Jack : He's not a hunter! He'd never have got us meat! He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. He's like Piggy! He says things like Piggy! He's not a proper chief, he's a coward! On top when Roger and me went on; he stayed back!
Ralph : I went too!
Jack : After
Ralph : I went on too, then I ran away, so did you!
Jack : Call me a coward then, oh let's talk
Ralph : Oh, let's talk, talk, talk!
Jack : Right!
[to all the other boys]
Jack : I'm not gonna be part of Ralph's lot! I'm going off by myself to the rocks to hunt and have feasts and have fun. Anyone who wants can come too!
[Walks away by himself]
Ralph : Jack!
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Piggy : [to all the choir boys] And what are all of your names?
[the choir boys one by one answer with their respective name: Henry, Maurice, Robert, Rupert, Harold, Bill, Roger, Simon]
Jack : I'm Jack
Piggy : Yeah that boy there, he...
Jack : You're talking too much! Shut up, fatty!
Ralph : His name's not "Fatty", his real name's "Piggy"
Jack : Piggy!
[All the boys laugh at Piggy]
