William Golding's Lord of the Flies has many different characters and each has their own role. One of the characters, Jack Merridew, is very interesting to talk about. What happens when someone who should not be in charge wants to be in charge? This is exactly what kind of person Jack is. No matter what, he always wants to be in charge. Despite his desire, Jack is not a competent leader since he is immature, ignorant, and irrational. He cannot make important decisions for himself and others and this shows throughout the book by crude decision-making. In the examples provided below, it is obvious that Jack should not be in charge of other people when he cannot even sort things out for himself.
Jack is very irrational throughout the book. In the beginning, Jack was somewhat tolerable
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Jack’s faults shine in chapter four, when instead of tending to the fire, he takes his hunters into the woods to kill some pigs. The hunters leaving the fire causes it to go out, which ultimately leads to them missing an opportunity to get rescued much earlier than they eventually would later in the book. This shows that he thinks presently without looking towards the future, because if they were rescued, they would not even need the food that he got. In chapter five, Jack begins to think that being a hunter is more important than following the rules that were put in place by Ralph. Jack shows that he values killing more than order and contributing to civilization. Another example of this comes in Chapter 12, when Jack tries to kill Ralph to guarantee him undisputed leadership over the island. He burns down the whole forest without thinking just because he wants control over the island; unfortunately, that island will not be there anymore for him to have control over. This shows how he lacks in his thinking and how he did not think before he