“It’s a flaky and weird little town,” Anderson said in an interview last fall at their studio in downtown Farmington, and chuckled. The trio faces long drives to gigs and airports, snaking between peaks and across prairies that are home to elk, mountain lion and coyote. Its bassist, Michael McCluhan, a tall, bearded, 55-year-old Anglo, was a former competitive swimmer who wandered in and never left.Ī musician’s life is a tumbleweed journey in this land. The trio’s drummer, Nick Lucero, 39, half Peruvian Quechua and half Spanish, grew up on a ranch in Colorado. When the naval officer asks who is in charge, Jack starts to step forward to challenge Ralph's claim of leadership but is stopped perhaps by the recognition that now the old rules will be enforced.Delbert Anderson, 36, is a Navajo jazz musician, and he and his bandmates live in Farmington, a city of 46,000 perched just east of the reservation where he was born, which is the size of the Republic of Ireland. Given the thrill of "irresponsible authority" he's experienced on the island, Jack's return to civilization is conflicted. Perhaps acting out of some guilt he is unable to acknowledge, Jack becomes paranoid and begins feeding misinformation to his tribe, a typical practice of dictatorships to control the collective thinking by controlling the information that is disseminated. True to Piggy's assertion that "It's them that haven't no common sense that make trouble on this island," Jack takes an entirely different direction from logic or common sense. chattered in his ear like an ape." His tribe addresses him as "Chief," indicating a form of more primitive tribal leadership. We know who ought to say things." He dictates to his hunters that they forget the beast and that they stop having nightmares.Īs Jack strives to establish his leadership, he takes on the title of "chief" and reinforces the illusion of station and power by using the other boys ceremoniously as standard bearers who raise their spears together and announce "The Chief has spoken." This role is no game for him, though by the night of Simon's death, Jack has clearly gone power-mad, sitting at the pig roast on a large log "painted and garlanded. Denouncing the rules of order, Jack declares, "We don't need the conch any more. Jack assigns a high value only to those who he finds useful or agreeable to his views and looks to silence those who do not please him. In defense, he offers to the group a rationale that "He'd never have got us meat," asserting that hunting skills make for an effective leader.
In trying to get Ralph impeached, he uses his rhetorical skills to twist Ralph's words. The dictator in Jack becomes dominant in his personality during the panic over the beast sighting on the mountain. He quickly loses interest in that world of politeness and boundaries, which is why he feels no compunction to keep the fire going or attend to any of the other responsibilities for the betterment or survival of the group. On the island, however, that social conditioning fades rapidly from Jack's character. Their entire lives in the other world, the boys had been moderated by rules set by society against physical aggression. For him, the conch represents the rules and boundaries that have kept him from acting on the impulses to dominate others. Yet he uses the conch to his advantage when possible, such as when he calls his own assembly to impeach Ralph. He frequently impugns the power of the conch, declaring that the conch rule does not matter on certain parts of the island. The conflict on the island begins with Jack attempting to dominate the group rather than working with Ralph to benefit it. His domain is the emotions, which rule and fuel his animal nature. Hunting develops the savagery that already ran close to his surface, making him "ape-like" as he prowls through the jungle. His main interest is hunting, an endeavor that begins with the desire for meat and builds to the overwhelming urge to master and kill other living creatures.
He is eager to make rules and punish those who break them, although he consistently breaks them himself when he needs to further his own interests.
A former choirmaster and "head boy" at his school, he arrived on the island having experienced some success in exerting control over others by dominating the choir with his militaristic attitude. Jack represents evil and violence, the dark side of human nature.
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