There are two main characters as which Golding describes: Piggy, the “fat boy”, and Ralph the “fair boy.” Later on after Piggy and Ralph meet, more groups …show more content…
Each boy is given a job from Ralph, but they never complete their tasks, such as building shelter for the toddlers or keeping the signal fire burning. This looses the boy’s chances of surviving, and finding help to leave the island. Even Jack is not a mature or humble leader. He displays this when being the leader of the hunters. Jack leads everyone into chaos; such as applying war paint before hunting and starting the hunter dance. Evidently lack of leadership and maturity leads to violence on the island.
The spark of death on the island starts once the boys are dismantled with fear. Once one of the toddlers with a birthmark claimed he saw a “beastie,” this moment created fear in all the boys- “He says a beastie came in the dark; he was dreaming!” When fear is created, the boys seem to look up to a leader for hope. This relates back to when Ralph was chosen over Jack. This made Jack became very jealous of him, and since then he wanted to be leader. Then once Jack had the moment to take power of leading the group, chaos started and many main characters