Jack Lord Of The Flies Leadership Essay

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The leadership is the main reason for judging a quality of leader. Every decision and behavior of a leader is influenced by the leadership. However, a leader must have their own specific leadership to control the society. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, Jack is a strong and ambitious who has strong leadership on the island. Jack provides protection, offers food and provide fun to gain power and influence over the other boys, which result in him becoming leader on the island. Jack has the ability to protect the boys by hunting the beast. He fights against Ralph and shouts at him in order to show his power, “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong-we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and …show more content…

After Jack and his hunters hunt a pig, they decide to invite the rest of the kids to enjoy the meat, “To-night we’re having a feast. We’ve killed a pig and we’ve got meat. You can come and eat with us if you like” (Golding, 174). Meat, the necessity for providing energy on the island. Without meat, people is difficult to survive on the island. Jack decides to use meat to control them, in order to attract the kids. Initially, he shares his meat for free to them, after they eat the meat then kids can be only relying on Jack. Furthermore, the kids cannot be able to hunt by themselves, because they are too weak for hunting. On the other hand, the fear of the beast makes them be afraid of the forest. Conversely, Jack and the hunters are brave and they don’t scare anything on the island so all of the boys can only eat the meat from them. Therefore, Jack finds out the benefit of his hunters and himself so he starts sharing meat to the kids, in order to make them be loyal to himself. The kids are totally control by Jack because they need to follow the people who provide meat. The only way is following Jack. While Jack is controlling the kids by meat, he also provides fun for the kids to relax themselves on the

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