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Piggy's Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

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Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel about group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island after their plane crashed. As the book starts the group of boys unknowing what to do decide someone should lead. They start to select a leader between Jack and Ralph. These boys were the largest and strongest of them. The boys voted Ralph be leader. A quote for this is “The most obvious leader was Jack but there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch.” (Golding 1:22). Piggy one of the other boys on the island, whose dad is a Naval Captain knowing all the island in the area. So, they have hope that they will be found, if they have a signal large enough for a passing ship comes by. They use Piggy’s glasses to make a spark of fire glowing high. This section’s quote “Ralph moved the lens back and forth, this and that, till glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood.” (Golding, 2:41). Jack and Ralph bicker about the complaints and comments of the boys saying they want meat and that there hungry. Ralph and Jack growing in the tension of needing …show more content…

Talked about how and what happened during this story and how the boys went from sane to going a little crazy from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. I pointed out that it started fine with choosing the leader and how Jack went from okay with Ralph being leader to how he wanted to be leader and him stealing the glasses from Piggy’s face in the middle of the night. Jack became more insane as he and Ralph had a fall out and being called a thief. As the rest of the book goes there are a couple of deaths that occur on the island and multiple things lost to a fiasco of rage and are several mysterious deaths and events that occur in the book Lord of the

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