In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph was chosen as a leader due to his charisma and communication skills with the other children. Many of the children begin to lose trust and faith in Ralph as their leader but that doesn't stop Ralph from holding himself at the title of “chief” amongst the boys. Ralph wasn’t able to be a good chief throughout the story which resulted in corruption and chaos with the others.
In the beginning of the novel, Ralph was able to persuade all of the boys that there wasn’t anything to fear. His powerful charisma and communicative skills won over the others which allowed him to be named the chief. As stated in the story, “But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch.” With a little help from the conch, Ralph was easily voted to chief because of these characteristics. Ralph even realized that he couldn’t lead by himself. Therefore, characters such as Piggy and Jack were promoted into higher positions to aid Ralph in his leadership responsibility. Ralph managed to accomplish many helpful tasks as chief. He was able to start a fire that would provide a smoke signal, build shelters, and had a group of boys that hunted for the others. Ralph was a very
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The others became less interested in what Ralph wanted and more interested in what they wanted to do. Ralph chastises Jack by stating, “I was talkinging about smoke! Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!” Ralph becomes more and more frustrated with Jack and the others as they become more focused on hunting and playing. Ralph and Simon work on building huts for everyone but the others are off playing or hunting. These actions show the lack of respect the boys have for Ralph as chief and thus, starts the steady decline in Ralph’s power over the