Epilogue To William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

Meanwhile, Ralph values the group over himself, and wants everyone to have a say in any decisions made. Jack gets fed up with his lack of power, so he decides to try to become the leader. He asks if anyone wants to come with him, and says, “Hands up?’ said Jack strongly..... ‘How many think –’ His voice trailed off. The hands that held the conch shook. He cleared his throat, and spoke loudly. ‘All right then.’ …. The humiliating tears were running from the corner of each eye. ‘I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you’”(127). Jack acts like a little kid in this scene. This hunger for power demonstrated by Jack has made him corrupt, so much that he will not tolerate being with the others if he can’t be the leader. Jack tries to portray an image of manliness, but it is evident that it is not true when he starts crying. Qualities like this are why Jack is incapable of being the leader. Overall, Ralph is able to handle the power that he is given in a more mature way than Jack.

Jack has undergone a metamorphosis from a civilized human to a savage boy.  The fire set by Jack to burn Ralph out was meant for evil but ended with a rescue. 

He thinks he's getting closer to Ralph, and he wants their friendship back. He's trying to help convince the other boys that there isn't a monster, but people keep reporting sightings. Chapters 7-9 Ralph's group has basically abandoned him to join Jack's group. Jack called Ralph a coward. He falls into a state of depression, but is cheered up by piggy who has new ideas.

While Ralph helped Simon build shelter, Jack didn’t care too much about the whole idea, he was more into going out and hunting to find meat for the rest to eat. Ralph wasn’t too concerned about eating anything, during the time Jack and Ralph was trying to think of more ideas on how to get the group, and himself, off the deserted island. His persistence was shown when he and Piggy had gotten off the boat, and searched the island for the others and he was thinking about how to get off the island. In trying to get off the unknown island, he knew a more mature person needed to lead and he was that

Jack's tribe goes on a hunt for Ralph and Ralph is afraid. He is no

One day while one of Jack's hunters were supposed to keep watch over the fire, they went on a hunt with Jack to kill a pig. Meanwhile on the beach, Ralph, Simon, and Piggy are building forts when they realize that a ship is passing over the island. Then, they realize that the fire is out, so they sprint up the mountain but by the time they get there, the ship was gone. At the same time, Jack and the hunters had just come back from the hunt. They see Ralph and know exactly what their mistake was. So, Jack tries to lighten up the mood by saying to Ralph that he should have been there because it was so much fun. Ralph gets very angry at them and says that they could have been rescued if they had been watching the fire. In retaliation to Ralph's anger, Jack takes Piggy's glasses and breaks one of the specs. Then they try to rebuild the fire while Ralph is blocking them, and Ralph doesn't move. (Golding 65-75). "No one, not even Jack would ask him to move and in the end they had to build the fire three yards away and in a place not really as convenient. So Ralph asserted his chieftainship and could not have chosen a better way if he had thought for days. Against his weapon, so indefinable and so effective, Jack was powerless and raged without knowing why. By the time the pile was built, they

When you are in the wild, you do whatever you can to survive. It is all about survival of the fittest. Especially if there are no rules like in the book. This shows a lot between Jack and Ralph. It seems pretty

And how? I think that when the boys saw that he was going to start a tribe of his own that was just going to hunt and have fun, they immediately liked it more than their current situation, because they couldn’t fully understand what Ralph and Piggy were trying to do. They were tired of having responsibilities and having to grow up and put fun aside, so they went to the man that would allow them to have fun (as any younger people would do). And the boys that remained with Ralph, slowly faded as more and more work was put on them. With Jack, they didn’t have to have a smoke fire, they didn’t even have to wear clothes, and they got to hunt and eat well and have a fortress at the castle rock. As the few who still followed Ralph went up to castle rock to confront Jack, One was killed and two were captured and tied up. Jack instilled fear into his boys by showing them that if they turned against him, that could be them.

Ralph is ambitious and prioritises getting off of the island which is how he re good leadership skills. Other than escaping the island his main priority on the island is the fire, and serving the greater good unlike Jack, who only cares about and is fixated on getting is the meat. Ralph keeps his focus on finding a way off the island and insists on keeping the fire burning as a conspicuous signal. When the ship passed by and didn’t see the boys because the fire had gone out due to Jack's objective on hunting, Ralph gets enraged.

This demonstrates Ralph’s ability to maintain order and to relate back to civilization by establishing rules. Jack can be easily influenced by things while Ralph is more mature and is able to process material and make sure that it makes sense. Ralph is more committed to getting rescued than is Jack or any other boy out

The terrifying images that are connected to both deaths are odd and disturbing. Ralph must take control of the situation and lay his emotions aside. He understands that with or without the support of the other boys, he is focused on survival and rescue. His strong will prevails and connection to humanity is ultimately what allows him to survive himself being the prey of the savages “hunting” excursion. His goal

This is my first of a few points on how I firmly believe that Ralph was in the right; everything he did and said was correct and to the benefit of the entire group. The problem, though, is that when you have two alpha males, with one always being used to being in charge, therein creates an immense hierarchical problem, very similar to Cain and Able from the Bible. One becomes jealous of the other and just like these two, Jack executes any means to gain control. In Jack 's case, when he decided to excuse their brutality towards Simon by saying it was him in disguise, it just goes to show how far some kids, and some

death. Ralph insists that it was a murder. At Castle Rock, Jack rules as a

Ralph is now fully aware that he is seen as an obstacle to survival so the boys have decided he is better dead than alive. The savageness of Jack to tell the boys to hunt him like they would hunt a pig once again shows his true intention to be in full power and govern the boys on his terms. The boys are consumed by savagery and the will to make it on the island that they are willing to go hunt and try to execute a human being.

So eventually, years later, he decides to kill him. But when he arrived at Ralph’s doorstep and saw Ralph, he realized that things had changed, Ralph was sick and old, while he was healthy as a clam. So he decides to move on, as the text says, “Then swiftly, fleeing ahead of the dawn, we ran out of Green Town and back, thank you, dear Christ, back toward now and today for the rest of my life” (Bradbury 24). This shows that he realized that holding a grudge for something so silly for all those years was ridiculous. So he moved on from the past and towards what really mattered, the rest of his