Jack And Ralph In Lord Of The Flies

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Comparing and contrasting Jack and Ralph gives the reader an insight and better understanding of how the book develops. They have many similarities and differences between them. These main characters help explain things in the book like the theme, characteristics, actions, and rivalries. Some major keys of the compare and contrast are qualities in leadership, lessons they teach, and their relationships.

Setting: This chapter takes place on the beach and mountains on the deserted island in between the years of the Second World War

Ralph- Good- The fair-haired, tall, handsome Ralph is an obvious choice to lead the band of children stranded on the island. He has a "directness" in his manner that the narrator calls a sign of "genuine leadership. He seems to be genuinely interested in the welfare of the entire group and can get along with all kinds of people.

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys who are lost on a deserted island and must do what they can to survive. At the beginning of the novel, two of the boys, Ralph and Jack, become leaders. These differences will form the main conflict in the story. The differences will cause them to hate each other and the anger that results is a recurring part of the plot throughout the novel. These two boys can be compared by the way they change, the reason for their actions, and the way they use or abuse power.

Both Ralph and Jack have the desire to be the leader of the group. Jack and Ralph would appear to be good leaders at the start, but as the story progresses their ideas and actions prove otherwise. Their actions end up splitting the group apart, some into savages and the others stay normal and still hope to be rescued. Ralph is the first chosen leader of the group. He is well liked and obeyed by the other boys.

“Jack made a rush and stabbed at Ralph’s chest with his spear. Ralph sensed the position of the weapon from the glimpse he caught of Jack’s arm and put the thrust aside with his own butt. Then he brought the end round and caught Jack a stinger across the ear. The were chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring.”(196). Two strong types of leadership can lead to devastating outcomes. This is shown in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Ralph and Jack have two very different types of leadership that are at different ends of the spectrum. The qualities of Ralph and Jack are different, Jack’s beliefs contrast those of Ralph, and the styles of leadership that Ralph and Jack use are as different as night and day. To begin, it takes

A good leader is someone who cares about everyone. They are loyal, and listens to everyone’s ideas. They are smart, strong, and can make tough decisions. A good leader could fight, but a better leader can choose not to. In the Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding, is about a boy named Ralph who wanted to get rescued and made leadership choices based on that, but another boy named Jack who prevented rescue by splitting the group up and turning survival into a game. Ralph and Jack were meant to be in the same novel because Golding wanted to show how the wrong leadership can go wrong, and on what leader you follow can be an effect on how you survive.

“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate (William Golding).” Lord of the Flies is 1960s book about a group of British boys in which are stranded on a deserted island for months. Two of the main leadership roles in this book is filled by Jack and Ralph. Ralph and Jack are very different people in how they look and act, but in the end they are very similar. To begin with, no one is exactly the same unless you are identical twins.

Though the fire is commonly used as a symbol for Ralph, it also has connections to Simon as well. Simon was a central character in ensuring the boy’s survival on the island through his presence as the balance between Jack and Ralph. He aided Ralph in lighting the fire and the shelters for the children and did not quarrel with Jack. He stands by Ralph until the very end and his help along with Piggy’s prolonged Jack’s vicious ways from harming everyone on the island. He often helped the littluns such as when “Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach…” (57), though they are not useful or essential for the survival of the group. These kind acts kept the idea of hope alive through the island until his cruel death by Jack’s tribe. After

A character in a novel can represent a larger idea in society. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, each character is illustrated to represent a larger idea in society. Ralph represents democracy, Jack represents savagery, and Piggy represents a scientific approach.

In the famous novel named “Lord of the flies”, there are four main characters that William Golding built up to represent the typical personalities in human nature. While Jack stands for the powerfully instinct savagery, Simon represents the natural kindness and Piggy with his glasses is the symbol of wisdom, Ralph has the best conducts of a real leader as he was initially voted for chief. There are three main characteristics that mark him out as a felicitous leader: rational, moral and unflinching.

so he knows how to lead but although he has the confidence to lead he

I know just by reading the book I would want to get off the island as soon as possible and naturally would choose fire. Midway through Lord of the flies the collective group is split into two with Ralph as one leader and Jack as the other. Jack’s group sole purpose is to hunt, party, and eat. On the contrary Ralph’s group is sane and is still using a type of self-government. This situation really just goes back to the previous one about if you want to get off the island and be productive or have a good time and party.

Ralph represents law, order, organized society and moral integrity. Throughout the novel he is constantly making common-sense rules for the boys to follow. Unlike Ralph, Jack is unkind, caring about no one but himself and how he can benefit.   Jack simply wants to hunt and have a good time.  He makes fun of Piggy, humiliating him, making him feel small and unworthy.  "You would, would you? Fatty.... and Jack smacked Piggy's head" (Golding 78). Jack is a lost boy who begins to discover the evil within him.  When he proposes to the group that he should be the new chief, they do not respond in his favor, and Jack runs away, hurt and rejected.  He swallows his hurt ego and throws all of his energy into the only thing he seems to know how to do - hunting.  He puts on face paint and hides his conscience.  This changes him into a savage, an evil, violent monster. The colorful mask allows Jack to forget everything he was taught back in England.  "The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness" (Golding