Zach Cohen Dr. Rees Lit. and Comp. March 13, 2023 Jack and Ralph’s Crucial Relationship In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boy boarding school students crash land on an island. The young kids have to appoint a leader, learn how to survive on this island with each other, and deal with their problems. Jack and Ralph, two of the older kids, have a very important relationship that evolves tremendously throughout the novel because they split up the kids, cause death and violence, and produce craziness in everyone’s heads. Firstly, from the very beginning of the novel, Ralph and Jack are rivals and ultimately antagonists. Ralph finds and blows the conch shell to gather all of the lost boys together. When they all group up, they realize they need a leader to keep them moving forwards and control the group of boys. They all decide that since Jack and Ralph are the oldest and most responsible, they will be the leaders. Jack and his choir were …show more content…
They get stuck on the island for so long and this causes them to go savage because they lose sight of reality. Jack’s tribe is hunting by themselves with paint on their face and them chanting. When they finally catch a girl pig, the boys are so deranged that they do disgusting stuff with the pig. Jack tells everyone to sharpen the spear and screams, “Up its ass!” (135). This demonstrates how crazy Jack and his tribe were that they did disgusting acts with a pig. Also, Jack’s tribe is so messed up in their heads that they try to hunt Ralph, and kill him. Ralph has to hide throughout the forest to survive and cope with his problems of the boys trying to kill him. Jack’s tribe then tries to light up the forest, and a ship sees this and saves Ralph from getting killed, and all the boys from the island. When they get rescued and get off the island, they start crying and realize how messed up the things that they did