Ralph Is A Good Leader In Lord Of The Flies

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold. But not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” - Jim Rohn. In the allegory novel, The Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, shows the examples of a good and a bad leader. I believe that a good leader is not bias and shows that he is interested into what others have to say. A good leader that could be obviously noticed is Ralph. He is one of the protagonist throughout the book, yes he has his good and bad times in the book but he truly tries to be stable. From the beginning he is one of the most liked characters. He shows his leadership by giving orders in a respectful way. “If we have a signal going, they'll come and take us off. And another thing. We ought to have more rules. Where the conch is, that's a meeting. The same up here as down there.” (page 25 Lotf) Ralph plans things ahead and show that he will take care of the group. He thinks of the rules and how they will stay stabilized with one another, or how or when they will meet up. Yet most importantly he thinks of how the group will be rescued.

Ralph is just more precise and careful with his words. Instead Jack is more of a rebellious person. Jack does not want to follow the rules and says whatever comes to his mind. For Jack, he hurts peoples feelings and is selfish. The complete opposite to Ralph, with Ralph the group enjoys his company and agreed from the start as Ralph to be leader. “Vote for chief…. Ralph!Ralph” (page 22 Lotf) A good example of Jack being a bad leader is when he had tried to get rid of the conch in page 91. There he shows how he does not care for the opinions of others or what others want to do. Meanwhile on that same page Ralph wants to listen to everyone's ideas and conclusions about the so called