William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

Imagine being a young child getting stranded on a deserted island after one’s plane gets hijacked. In attempts to save the plane from the hijackers, all the adults are killed and the pilot is mortally wounded but survives just long enough to crash land on an island. One would need to find a leader to get the group organized, but have no experience in doing so. This is what the boys go through in the novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, which takes place during an atomic war. The boys on the plane crash onto a deserted island and they find they are the only survivors. Two boys, named Ralph and Piggy find a conch and blow it. This makes a loud noise that resonates throughout the island, and the boys scattered throughout the island

They decide to have a leader and can vote for Jack, the leader of a choir, or Ralph, the one who blew the conch and gathered them all together. Ralph wins their votes and begins to create their own society with laws and order. After living on the island for quite some time, there are whispers among the young children about a beast inhabiting the island. Everyone tries to work together at first to maintain the order and peace that was originally established, but with Ralph and Jack’s different personalities and ways of thinking, there is often tension between the two and they can not seem to get along. While Ralph and Jack in Lord of the Flies have different personalities, priorities for surviving on the island, and ways of leading the boys, their different styles of leadership can be effective and have their drawbacks indicating that Golding is suggesting that choosing a leader wisely is important because it could lead to a society’s

Ralph is seen as a great and supportive leader, working with the group, while still wanting law and order, keeping things organized. On the other hand, Jack could be seen as a ruthless leader, not considering the boys’ feelings and thoughts on a subject before making them do whatever he wanted or needed them to do. He even used the potential threat of the beast to scare the younger boys into doing what he wanted. Now imagine being stranded on an island with only young children as survivors. Using Golding’s examples in the novel, one should pick leaders carefully and wisely, clearly thinking everything