What would you do if you went on a plane with your coworkers or school peers and crashed on a deserted island? Amid a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys crash on a deserted island. First, the boys enjoy their life without grownups and spend much of their time playing games and splashing in the water. Ralph wants the schoolboys to help take care of the need for survival. Jack says that Ralph is a coward and that he should be removed from the leadership. Resulting in irresponsible Jack gaining power over everybody. Jack's role as a leader has disastrous consequences on the island, leading to death and destruction. In the novel "The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, Jack is to blame for the demise of the island due to his selfish nature and cruel leadership.
To begin with, Jack is
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However, Ralph wasnot that destructive, and Jack did more damage to the island and the way of life for that amount of time. According to the text, "Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife." This shows that Jack is doing more destruction than Ralph. Jack is doing this to show dominance. "Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever, and the rock struck Piggy with a glancing blow." (Golding 180-181) At this point in the story, Roger is acting on his primitive instincts and becoming the biggest savage on the island. Speaking about his savagery, Roger kills Piggy with a huge boulder, which not only kills Piggy but destroys the conch into smithereens. Savagery has overtaken Roger, and his murder of Piggy symbolizes savagery and the destruction of their civilization. This quote shows that Jack's cruelty is rubbed off on his people. Roger might have accidentally done it, but Jack taught them how to make the boulders fall. In the end, Jack is way more selfish and new to being a