Elisabeth Dolgetta Per.1 English Lord of the Flies Essay II.

A leader is a person followed by others. Leaders who aren’t strong cannot stick to the rules and control a group. Leaders who are overly controlling become dictators and everything turns into chaos. A good leader is ambitious, intelligent, has good ideas and takes responsibility. In the novel, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, leadership is destroyed and anarchy is created. In the novel, young boys are on a plane that crashes and they arrive on a deserted island alone. There are no adults on the island. The boys were initially on the plane to be evacuated from the war. Their first thoughts are to be rescued. A boy named Ralph introduces himself to a boy whose real name is unknown but they call him Piggy, although that isn’t his wish. Ralph becomes leader because he is voted in by other children in the beginning. A leader is needed to help everyone work together and to get food, water, shelter and to be rescued from the island. Ralph had everything he wanted to stay organized, and to keep every rule he made. Ralph and Piggy discover a conch shell on the island and use it to call the boys together. "We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us—." Piggy says this. At this point the conch is used to make rules for everyone to follow and it symbolizes civilization and order. Any boy, who holds the conch, has the right to speak. Every time Ralph wants to hold a meeting, he uses the conch shell. Ralph was a good, natural leader in the beginning. He wanted to do what he thought was right for everyone else to get rescued and to survive. He doesn’t only make his own ideas but listens to others as well. Piggy helped him out a lot by having the idea to make a fire using his glasses. Ralph’s weaknesses are when he tries to take control and be a