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While Jack’s actions; in taking the other boys to go hunting instead of watching the fire, thereby leaving it dead at the precise moment a ship came along, are certainly not justifiable, they are forgivable. Jack took away the rest of the group’s hope of being rescued, and that hurt and disappointed the other boys, namely his chief, Ralph. He also had no right to do so, seeing as tending to the fire was foremost in Ralph’s instructions; and doing what he did was blatantly defiant.
