Lord of the Flies (Ch 8-9)

On page 125, the fact that Jack "inexpertly" blows the shell and keeps on doing so until he feels he has everyone's attention made me think differently of Jack. It seems that he really wants the power (took the conch and blew it- only Ralph does it), but since he doesn't know how to use it as well, it made him seem like he would go possibly crazy with power.

With the boys splitting (Jack leaving Ralphs' "lot"), it made it seem like they forgot their priority on the island, which was getting rescued. Now it has become about who has more people in their group, or the better group, or what they can do.
And it's especially worse when the boys sneak away in the night.

Do you think the boys chose a sow, rather than a piglet, because it was bigger? Or because they couldn't bring themselves to kill a baby pig? (because with the sow gone, the piglets may not be able to survive) Do you think it adds that they haven't been living with parents for a while, so killing a sow, isn't that bad?

I think the killing of the sow scene was disgusting, and the boys seem to comfortable with what they did. But I guess that's how they have to be to survive, but the way they killed the pig seemed odd, in a disturbing way.
But then comparing them to hunters, such as Native Americans, who must also kill animals themselves to survive, but the way the Native Americans do it, they still respect the animal. With the boys coming from boarding schools and rich families, I doubt they respect the animal.

I'm confused about the "lord of the flies." I think it is the speared pig head, but I don't understand why it talks, and what it is talking about, and if Simon is only dreaming this.
And I don't understand the line on page 144, "Simon was inside the mouth."

However, I like the line on page 143, "Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill."

Ralph is such a hypocrite- first the joining of the hunt, and admitting the adrenaline frenzy he had, and then joining the crazy dancing of Jack's group.

Now the mob mentality, really got to the boys, and they didn't realize to stop what they were doing. Robert was lucky when they stopped, because they hadn't gone that "crazy" yet, but unfortunately for Simon, the boys were going crazy with the beast, the pig, the weather, and the dancing, and they killed him.