Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

When stranded on an Island, it’s common to act differently and frightened. It’s also normal to begin seeing things that may scare the human mind. The average child can become scared just by the thought of being alone and not having anybody to care for them. A child finds a leader that comes to them and makes themselves clear to be a protagonist. Not every child needs to have leader. As in “Lord of The Flies”, Ralph and Jack are the standing leaders and the littluns must choose to whom will be their leader. Children do not work well together if stranded in the same place because children can not take control when stranded while seeing things differently.
Firstly, no child can be thrown on to an abandoned place with no guidance. Children need

to be able to look up to someone in order to survive, but when stranded with other children, everyone will try to become a leader. Not every child thinks the same way in order to survive. “What Golding wants to acclaim is that the world of grown-ups was no more different than the world of children” (Anjum et al 129). The quote shows that when it comes to children becoming leaders, it is no different from the role of an adult becoming a leader. Golding directly made the conflict of leadership among the children a bad act.
Secondly, when children fall under the influence of someone that they look up to, the child makes the same mistakes that their leader makes. After the kids begin to follow Jack’s lead in “The Lord of The Flies”, the kids begin to chant, “Kill the pig, cut his throat, spill his blood” (Anjum et al 129). Children can not tell what is right and what is wrong when they are thrown under the wing of somebody else making decisions. A child cannot think as a leader and that makes them easy to be manipulated. If a child is easy to manipulate, their leaders are able to make them do any task whether it is good or bad.
Thirdly, it’s easy to manipulate a child’s mind into thinking something is true. Manipulation of a child mind is mostly used to make the child less fearful of their surroundings. As in the book “Lord of The Flies”, all of the littluns choose a leader. The littluns that choose Jack are provided with food and the littluns that are with Ralph are there to help him show reason to Jack. When all control over civilization is gone, Ralph says, "Which is better-to have rules and agree or to hunt and kill?" (Anjum et al 128) and that shows that Ralph wants the littluns to choose his side to avoid danger. Ralph has a more friendly connection with the littluns but the littluns know that the only way that they are getting off of the island is to follow Jack.
Lastly, children need something honest to latch on to and follow as a leader. No child can be thrown on an island and expected to kill and hunt. The littluns knew that choosing Ralph would not gain them the real survival care that they need. By choosing Jack, it was a more wise because that is the only way that everyone is going to survive. Survival of the fittest played it’s role during the time of Piggy being stabbed with a spear by Jack. Jack is the most Athletic person out there and he is the only one bloodthirsty to kill while Piggy is the brains of the operation. The children are not able to lead themselves to a healthy living because they all have a different way of survival and that makes leadership difficult enough to where the children constantly switch sides. The littluns only followed and they never lead.