Ralph's Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

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In the “Lord of The Flies,” written by author William Golding, a British aeroplane crashes on or near an island located in the Pacific Ocean, with the only survivors being in their preteens or preadolescence. The main protagonist of the story, Ralph, becomes the leader of the group of the remaining survivors due to his outstanding feats, such as his leadership skills and knowledge of the world around them. While Ralph is the leader of the boys during the first-half of the story, the second-half of the story has his leadership falling apart when Jack and the other hunters leave Ralph, becoming two separate groups. After this, chaos begins to erupt between the two groups, examples of this being Simon’s death, Jack’s tyranny, the destruction …show more content…

He thinks about the deaths of both Simon and Piggy and begins to realize that the last strip of a stabilized civilization is completely gone.      During the night, Ralph sneaks to the camp at the Castle Rock(Jack’s camp) and finds Sam and Eric guarding the entrance to the camp. The twins give him food but refuse to join, informing him that Jack’s group will go out tomorrow to kill him. After this, Ralph goes to a large thicket to sleep. At dawn, Ralph witnesses Jack torturing one of the twins for information on Ralph’s location. Eventually, Jack’s group finds out his location, and try to break their way through the thicket by a rolling a boulder at it. With the thicket being too dense, the group of boys try to fight their way into the thicket, but fail to fight Ralph. Ralph then smells the scent of smoke and realizes that Jack set the jungle on fire to burn him to death. After leaving the thicket, he notices a group of boys, armed with spears, chasing after him. When Ralph ends up on the beach, he eventually collapses due to lack of energy, with the group of boys not being far behind. Luckily, Ralph sees a naval officer claiming that he saw the jungle burn, which made him believe that there were people there. When he then notices the pack of boys with spears, the officer believes that they are just having “fun and games.” However, after the naval officer notices the chaos in the island, he becomes disgusted and begins wondering how the boys lost their rules of civilization in a short amount of time. Ralph and the boys begin to sob after this, realizing how they gradually broke apart. Jack’s desire to kill Ralph is also another example of chaos since it can be compared to a corrupted government wanting to execute an innocent

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