Also there is Ralph who isn’t so bothered about there being no grown-ups to restore order.
“This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.”
Ralph is nominated the leader of the group and confident in his own leadership abilities, immediately with Simon and Jack take a tour of the island. From this you can see that the main priorities of Piggy and Ralph is to be rescued but until then keep order within the boys.
On the other hand there is Jack. Jack is the total opposite to the other pair of Piggy and Ralph, and almost disagrees on everything. From ‘chapter one’ Jack mocks Piggy about his weight and awkwardness. Also the emotion Jack and his hunters have to “kill the pig” I think is an indirect and clever way to suggest that the boys are killing part of Piggy too. Jack apart from being the leader of the savage tribe, which hunts the pigs, is also the head chorister and head boy. When there is a vote for chief Jack doesn’t like this as he assumes that he should be in charge of the island.
“I ought to be chief, said Jack with simple arrogance, because I’m chapter chorister and head boy”
This tells me that Jack and his attitude is all wrong as he didn’t like that he couldn’t be in charge and that Ralph was. Also Jack doesn’t want to do much work and just wants to be bathing, eating or playing while others build shelters, or huts, and make the fire up to keep it from going out.
Finally there is Roger who along with Jack like to cause trouble. Right at the beginning of the novel Roger along with Maurice, who is both part of Jacks tribe, starts to throw stones at Henry and kicking over his sandcastles. This tells me that Roger is bad or represents evil and symbolises man’s natural tendency to cause harm to others.
I think that since I have compared each character in both pairs it’s easy to say that Jack and Roger is more exciting. This is because Piggy is the type of person who makes sure everyone does an even amount of work and makes sure that people don’t break any rules of the island etc. Ralph is seen in my eyes as ‘perfect’ he doesn’t do things wrong and a lot of the time goes along with the ideas of Piggy. Whereas Jack and Roger do everything wrong and this is better to hear as bad is seen as good. They like to kill things especially Roger, as he becomes a self-proclaimed torturer and executioner for Jack and the rest of his tribe. Also they like to play and have fun, and pick on others which Jack says in the novel;
“If it’s fun, do it!”
So overall the most exciting pair has got to be Jack and Roger.
