Compare And Contrast Jack And Ralph Leadership

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Ralph and Jack compete from the beginning with each different individual strategies that makes each of them good leaders. The best leader would have been Ralph. Ralph was a strong but smart leader when it came to making decisions for the group. Jack was strong but was showing signs of savagery and violence.
From the beginning, Ralph and Jack were together. Ralph and Piggy both had the idea to use a conch to bring the children together that had fallen from the plane and made them become separated. When the children had got there and introduced themselves, they thought it would be wise to have a leader to sort out what to do. The children saw more qualities in Ralph to become leader so they had decided he would be the leader instead of Jack,¨Lets

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