Leadership In Lord Of The Flies Persuasive Essay

Everyone, at a point in their lives, will share a common goal with others. However, that does not necessarily mean they will accomplish it in the same way. For example, most students have a long-term goal of graduating school. Although they have the same goal in mind, they may have different short-term goals, for instance, making a lot of friends before graduation, graduating with high grades, finding a job before graduation, etc. A similar situation can be seen with the characters in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. In this story, a plane crashes into an island thus leaving its passengers stranded. Unfortunately, the stranded are mostly made up of teens and children. Fortunately, most of them understand that they need to be rescued. In an ideal society, everyone would be working together to survive and get off the island as soon as possible. Sadly, that is not the case in this book. Two teens, which are seen as the “leaders” of the society, share the goal of being rescued but have two different priorities. One prioritizes rescue (Ralph), whereas the other prioritizes food (Jack). Despite these two’s need to be

The hint in this story’s division is the introduction of Jack’s priority, and how it conflicted with Ralph’s. With his confidence in mind, Ralph thought that everyone would agree on prioritizing rescue, or at least survive until rescue. When Jack brings up his own priorities, discord arises. “‘You wouldn’t care to help with the shelters, I suppose?’ ‘We want meat -’ ‘and we don’t get it.’ Now the antagonism was audible.” (52) Even though they understand that rescue is important, they do not recognize how their dispute affects their society. If strife continues as it is, the bitterness between Jack and Ralph will become noticeable by others therefore transforming the united efforts of everyone’s survival and rescue, to separated struggles from the remains of their