Lord of the Flies Essay

Lord of the Flies Essay
The novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding has divided his characters into three categories. This novel is about a group of English boys that have gotten stranded on an island after a plane crash. In the beginning of this story these boys are described as being well-mannered and polite but since they have no rules to keep them civilized some of the boys start to turn savage. Ralph and Jack, the main characters of this book constantly argue about who should be leader and what is more important hunting or getting rescued. In the middle of this book, Jack starts do decide he no longer wants to be a part of the group where Ralph will be the leader. Jack takes his hunter group and forms his own group and most of these boys in his group have turned savage. The hunter group kills 2 of the boys by the end of this story which is Simon and Piggy and while they are on the hunt for Ralph, Ralph runs into some people that have came to rescue them. After this part, all the boys realize how uncivilized they have been while they have being on that island when they see someone that is civilized and clean. William Golding divides these boys into three categories: leader, follower and visionary. William gives Jack good characteristics of being a leader in this story even though he is not the main leader throughout half of the book. Also, Samneric, the twins portray good characters as followers. Lastly, Simon is the best example for a visionary in this story. Here are the reasons why I think these characters fit best in each category.
Jack was the best representative of a leader in this story. A leader is a person that can have people following him around, be convincing, take care of the group by protecting and providing for it, have organization controlling and well respected. Jack had his hunter group following him around mostly throughout the whole book. Back home “choir” was lead by Jack but since the island didn’t need a choir that group was... [continues]

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