Ralph Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

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Every child dreams of exploring a deserted island, yet, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explores the dark reality of such an event. As a plane went down in a crash, the only passengers to survive are a group of young British school boys. They washed up on the deserted island without any grownups to be found. William Golding discovers a wide range of different and unique ways in expressing symbolism through his characters in Lord of the Files, as the story goes on. Firstly, he expresses a wide range of evil and devilish actions through one of the central characters, Jack. Secondly, throughout the story Ralph demonstrates multiple different ideas that lead to his leadership. Lastly, Golding puts Simon in many different scenarios where he is sought out to …show more content…
Throughout the story, Ralph made his actions based off of what was best for the group and never based on what was best for him. Also, many of the other boys ignored the littluns but Ralph was always trying to help them. Ralph did many things to help with civilization. First, he came up with the idea that, if you have the conch, you are the only one who speaks. As he made that rule he also made a designated meeting place where the conch would be passed around for new ideas. Next, he came up with the signal fired to help them get rescued and he was always anxious about who was taking care of the fire so it would stay lit. Then, Ralphs other main focus was to build shelters for the group. He constantly was bugging the Jack and the choirboys about how there main focus was finishing the shelter and not hunting. "I'm chief. I'll go. Don't argue."(pg. 155). Even when he is scared he doesn’t let the other boys know because he wanted them to know everything was okay and the were soon to be rescued. Lastly, to show Ralph leadership, he constantly would yell at the other boys for not following the little rules in order for civilization to keep