Wow, love all those great insights posted the last days
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Also, the use of the term "bad" as you note, is definitely intriguing. It's interesting that this is another warning or line that Ennis and Jack decide to cross.
Ennis. Only Ennis. Not Jack
and Ennis. Metamophorically crossing lines, boundaries, rules: during their first summer, it is always Ennis, not Jack who goes first. Jack suggests (seduces), complains, is first with his mouth - but Ennis is the one who actually does the line-crossing (first).
Jack complains about commuting --> Ennis offers to switch (and does switch)
Jack complains about the beans --> Ennis orders soup
Jack suggests to shoot a sheep --> Ennis is the one who actually does shoot the elk
Ennis is the one who goes up to the sheep later and later (
"... but the hours he was away from the sheep stretched out and out.")Ennis is the one who decides "it's too late to go up to them damned sheep" and decides to stay in camp the whole night, against Aguirre's/God's will.
So while between the boys, Jack is the leading one (TS1, Jack introducing himself first, etc.), metamophorically, Ennis is the one who crosses the lines first.