In No.62, Wendy chooses a baseball bat (a toy used as weapon)
In No.65 when the threat has escalated, she chooses a a knife (tool as weapon).
Somewhere between No.69 and No.71, Jack finds an axe. While his strength is assumed to be 'strength' or at least 'force'; Jack is equipped with the very tool he would need to power through the hedge maze- literally. An axe. His mental capabilities are taken over by anger and rage and he is therefore unable to think things through logically.
In this image · No.72
Tools Become Weapons
Wendy’s knife takes the defensive place of the bat in No.64. Jack’s axe breaches the door; she cuts his reaching hand. The attack escalates the earlier staircase confrontation, and I connect the cut with the Castration theme.