Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

The Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding, is about a group of english boys who have crash landed on an island, and have to figure out a way to live on their own. During the time that they're on the island, two boys in particular have become leaders. These two boys are Ralph and Jack. Ralph and Jack are different in very many ways. The differences and similiarities in the two boys make them fight and eventually turn against eachother. The two boys can be compared by

Both Ralph and Jack change very much throughout this novel. Ralph starts out as a sensible english boy with good leadership skills, who is very well liked by the whole group of boys. Eventually, his ideas of being rescued begin to be considered foolish, and he loses the leadership influence over the group. By the end of the book, Ralph is considered a fugitive to Jack's hunter tribe, who are more concerned with their immediate needs than being rescued. Throughout the novel, Ralph's followers slowly one by one break away and end up following Jack's tribe, because Jack is more willing to feed them. Ralph realizes that he has lost all of the boys to Jack, and realizes that "There was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch." (Pg. ) This statement, from when Ralph was being hunted down by Jack's tribe of hunters, shows that everything he had lived for on the island, Piggy, the conch, and being rescuted, was now gone.

In the beginning of the novel, everyone was civil and followed Ralph. As the story continued on, Jack became more and more powerful so that eventually everyone shifted from following Ralph, to following Jack. Jack took over to provide for the boys' immediate needs, such as hunting, and not just to beat Ralph. Even when Ralph was chief, Jack was the one to provide all of the meat for the boys. Also, when time went on, Jack became more and more of a savage person than in the beginning. For example, the very first time he went to hunt,