Poor Leadership In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

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Societies are destroyed with poor leadership. For instance, towards the middle of the Lord of the Flies, Jack decided to break away from Ralph, who made positive changes for the boys, and therefore deciding to create his own new group that was isolated from Ralph’s. For example, Jack states, “I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come.” (pg. 118) In this scene of the book, Jack is directing his statement towards everyone except Jack, which his opinion was about. It illustrates the beginning of Jack’s group. He ends up gathering more and more boys, teaching them violent and vulgar actions to kill. This illustrated poor and negative leadership, because Jack began influencing the boys to kill

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