Ralph's External Conflict

There are several conflicts within the characters of Lord of the Flies. They all face internal and external conflicts. When they boys very first land on the island they are faced with an external conflict between themselves and nature. They are placed in an environment that is new and scary to them. They have to learn how to survive in the wild without any grownups. They also don’t have easy access to clean water, food, shelter, or clothing while faced with the hardships of the weather.
I think one of the major external conflicts in this book is between Ralph and Jack. They clashed from day one. Ralph was selected leader of the group and Jack did not like that and he wanted to be chief. Ralph tells everyone throughout the book that fire and signal smoke is the most important thing and that they need to maintain a fire in order to be rescued. Jack disagrees with Ralph. He believes that hunting is most important. Jack and the hunters focused on killing a pig and never helped with the fire or shelter. When it’s Jack’s and the hunters’ turn to maintain the fire they go hunting instead and let the fire go out. Ralph becomes furious with them and yells at them. He accuses Jack
When he gets down to where the boys were he was mistaken as the beast and is killed. Jack and his group were there and took part in this killing frenzy. The next morning Jack knows what they had done and can’t believe it. He is ashamed of himself. Piggy, Sam, and Eric all say that they did not take place in what had happened like Jack and his group. Jack realized the weight of their actions. They did kill Simon. But the rest of the group denies the truth. Throughout the book we see that Ralph has tried to stay away from becoming savage. He has always tried to keep order, but we see when Simon dies that Ralph has the ability to be