Compare and contrast Ralph and Jack’s leadership skills

very mad and consequently he starts shouting. Ralph tells the group

that they have to go and explore the only untouched part of the

island. This could be the only place, so the boys thought, that the

beast could be. Once there Ralph stays while Jack tells everyone to

follow him back to the fire to tend it. They do this leaving Ralph

alone; this was the first major sign of the snatching of leadership.

Following from there, Jack goes on a pig hunt. In the group that

went included Ralph, Simon and Roger. Ralph decides to test Jack and

so he tells him to go on by himself. Once back at the main camp Jack

is very scared but attempts to hide the fact that he is.

The next thing to happen was that Jacks breakaway group of over

three-quarters of the group go on a hunt and they are successful.

They catch a pig and ask Ralph to go and join them for dinner around

the fire. Once there they eat and after dinner they all including

Ralph and Piggy do a Tribal dance when a big storm starts. Then out

of the forest comes Simon, Jacks new found power means that he had the

influence on the group to tell them to attack Simon who was thought to

be the beast.

That night Jack tells a gang o people from his group to invade

Piggy's shelter, to ruin it and while doing that to take his glasses

to make fire to. The following morning Ralph and Piggy go and ask for

the glasses back but Jacks group just throw stones and end up killing

Piggy.

Ralph is left by himself and so he decides to try and win back the

power over samneric. They do agree they give him food but

unfortunately someone over hears them talking so they get in trouble.

Luckily they did inform of the manhunt that was going to take place

the next day. Ralph slept in the jungle until Jack told his group to

burn it and to role boulders down through it. Ralph runs until he

runs out of the jungle and finds a Naval officer by the beach.

The two boys have very similar leadership skills. The power of the

group started with Ralph but then switched to Jack. Jack is a much

harder tougher leader, because of the fact that he enjoys hunting for

food while Ralph is a more subdued character and he likes to try and

be a bit calmer. Ralph is more practical figure, building shelters

and establishing groups. Jack just wants to get food and to build

fires. Both boys hate each other and the reason for this is probably

because of the fact that they have such similar leadership skills yet

such weird ideas of how to survive. From the start it was obvious

that Jack wasn't going to stand for Ralph being leader, the swap

around had to happen at some time and that was obvious.

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