The Lord of the Flies 2
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies a group of kids who are fleeing a war, plane crashes and they are stranded on a deserted island without Adult supervision. The first thing all the kids do is vote for a chief and Ralph, who is more responsible, wins over Jack. They are the choices because Ralph is the Colonel of the whole group and Jack is the oldest out of all the boys. As the story goes on and when Jack starts his own group all of the kids lose sight of their main goal, to be rescued. They're all having too much fun when they switch over to Jack's group hunting and killing for food. In the story there are four main characters that are in a sense the leaders of the crew. There's Piggy and a quiet Simon who do not possess the scrappiness that Ralph and Jack do. These strengths are what help Ralph and Jack survive. Piggy is always talking about how his Auntie would not let him do this or that and Simon was just a quiet, reserved kid who is regarded as weird just due to the fact that he is calm. The first two kids are considered leaders but only to the littluns who really do not matter in the big picture. To the bigguns, Simon is just a silent and, "batty" kid who is called odd
The reason Jack and Ralph survive this dreadful experience and Piggy and Simon don't is because Piggy and Simon do not possess the qualities that Ralph and Jack do. These qualities mainly include bravery and leadership. Either Piggy or Simon does not possess the first, bravery. The both of them just want to go home. The most important quality that Ralph and Jack own is leadership because without leadership they wouldn't have all these kids following them around doing whatever they told them to do. Piggy and Simon are some of those followers and this is what ultimately leads to their death. The two boys that were the leaders and survived because of their consistent calmness and knowledge of what to do were Ralph and Jack. First of all Ralph was mature and responsible before his time. He handled the whole plane crash situation like he had done it before. He knew exactly what to do, how to build a fire for a smoke signal, make shelters from the rain, etc. The thing that Piggy says about Ralph makes a lot of sense. He says, "Which is better, to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is." When Piggy says sensible he's talking about Ralph's tenacity and passion on finding a way home. All that Jack's group wants to do is hunt and kill and pretend that they'll be all right even without adults. Now Jack at first is a good sport about not being picke
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Approximate Word count = 947
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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