Jack And Ralph In Lord Of The Flies

The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, depicts the story of a group of boys who get stranded on an island after their plane gets shot down. They are rather young with their ages ranging from six to approximately thirteen. To survive on the island they must mature and come together as a group. They elect Ralph, one of the older boys, to become chief. They chose him because he is the one that blew the conch. The conch acts as a symbol of unity and togetherness because it brought them together. Since Ralph blew it the boys few him as a leader. Ralph believes that they can get off the island by creating a smoke signal with a burning fire. He tries to focus all his efforts on the fire and building temporary shelters because he wants to get off the island. …show more content…
The lack of supervision and parental guidance has allowed Jack to let go of the restriction that society has put on to him. The community that the boys had flimsily created had begun to fall apart. Piggy, one of Ralph’s last followers and his true friend, tells Ralph that he needs to use his initial leadership status to keep the boys together but it ultimately fails. Jack creates his own tribe to hunt and have fun with him. Piggy is eventually killed by one of Jack’s comrades and Ralph is pushed to run away from Jack’s tribe because he had taken everything from Ralph. The remaining boys are eventually rescued by a British naval officer. Jack and Ralph can be considered two sides of one coin because they’ve both had positions of power throughout the novel. However, the major difference that really contrast the two is Jack demanded attention and power and eagerly to the role of leader. Ralph, contrastingly, had power thrust upon him and most of his factoring leadership qualifications were Piggy telling him what things to do or giving him