One connection I can make with the text is when the children start to have doubts about what is in the forest. As a kid, I was scared of the dark and would often find myself wondering what sort of unknowns were in it. More often than not, I thought about scary things, like the kids and the beastie. Humans fear the unknown and as a kid, that unknown for me was the dark.
Chapter 4, was a response to a specific question - Jack's physical transformation and the impact on his behavior.
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