Lord Of The Flies Ralph Leadership Analysis

Littluns’ minds are impressionable, and can change when influenced by older more ‘mature minds’ because of their desire for a leader and confirmation in what they are doing as right and wrong. Golding shows this by showing the innocence in the kids with their crying, and longing for an adult figure in the beginning of the book, but by the end of the book he has corrupted the littluns, into thinking that death and killing is fun and socially acceptable. By doing so, they start to lose their fight to get off the island.

The little ones care more about having fun, than acquiring food or being safe, so that they can ignore all of the hardships they are going through. So, when faced with the problem of choosing a leader between Ralph - the

So, when faced with the problem of choosing a leader between Ralph - the boy who would make the littluns do work in order to improve their society in hopes of getting off the island - or Jack - the boy who makes the horrible predicament they're in seem like a ‘bloody game’ (haha British puns) - they would choose Jack over Ralph and do whatever it takes to have a fun time, no matter how far they go and what the consequences are; even though they voted for Ralph in the beginning because he had the conch, and the power to assemble a meeting with everyone. Jack pumps up the littluns, in order to be liked more than Ralph, and the other boys. With the over-excitement that he incites by causing huge dances/bonfires with chants like, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Golding 152) it makes a fun little game for the kids, where, while dancing around and chanting a disturbing little sing-song and re-enacting killing the pig they had previously slaughtered, they get too out of hand and end up killing poor little Simon. This just goes to show that the littluns don’t understand the consequences of their madness, otherwise they would've realized what they were doing was insane and getting too out of hand. Piggy later go on to say “You stop it!...It was dark. There was that-that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared!...Anything could have happened.” (Golding, 156). Even though Piggy is a character who normally calls for order, one thing he desires the most is be accepted and loved in the society. So when he gets opportunities to be involved in things, (like one of Jack’s hunt reenactments) he instantly, no questions asked, joins in. Later on, Piggy tries to push off the murder that he and all the other boys had been a part of by contributing to the riot, but not stopping it. But this