Piggy's Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

In the novel, a group of boys were stranded on an island after a plane crash. They had to figure out how to survive and how to find resources. They created something like a committee, and Ralph was voted chief. He became in charge of all the boys on the island, Piggy being one of them. Piggy was smart and had good ideas.

Ralph had used the conch that Piggy found and called an assembly and discussed their roles on the island. The conch was used to allow the person holding the conch to speak, and all the boys agreed with that idea. This rule was introduced to the boys by Ralph, but Piggy was the one who suggested it to him since no one listened to him. The boys had decided that they needed a chief to help make decisions and there was something about Ralph that made him stand out, “there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch.” (Golding, 22).

Madison Hemenway Mrs.Wood Pre-ap English 10 May 2016 Rough Draft Being a leader is hard when you are different from the people that you want lead. We see that Piggy really isn't like the other boys both physically and mentally. ” He is physically different from the other boys on the island, he is rounder, wears glasses, and has asthma.

Ralph does not care about Piggy’s feelings or well-being. Not only is Ralph apathetic towards Piggy, he also takes Piggy’s ideas as his own, placing himself on an undeserving pedestal as the group leader. When Piggy and Ralph were stranded from the other boys on the island, it is Piggy who steps into action, finds the conch, and turns it into a way to call the others (15-16). Yet, Ralph is the one who blows the conch and indirectly takes credit for the ingenious idea. When voting for a chief on the island the boys exclaim, “[l]et him be chief with the trumpet-thing,” (22).

How is Piggy going to effect the group of boys? Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, was written during the Cold War but was based during World War II. Lord of the Flies is an allegory that won a “Nobel Prize in Literature.” The boys bully piggy, a 12 year old intelligent boy that is overweight. Piggy doesn’t believe they will get off the island any time soon.

Ralph shows fear, indecisiveness, confusion, and hesitation when making important decisions for the boys on the island. When the boys first crash on the island and find the conch, Piggy keeps telling Ralph to blow the conch to get ahold of the other boys and Ralph keeps hesitating “You try, Ralph. You'll call

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an intricate book which introduces several subjects that displays the unfolding of greed and power. Overall, there are various types of subjects that are shown throughout the book. The most constant points that are introduced include, the making of a civilization, the idea of killing a pig, and ignorance within a group. There are really not any personal connections I had towards the making of this mask. An alternative idea that I had was to choose a different character other than Piggy.

In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of English boys are stranded on an island after their plane was shot down. After some time on the island, some of the boys became savages and some are still civilize. Piggy, described by Golding, is short and very fat. Piggy isn’t really accepted by the other boys except for Ralph who is chief of the boys, and Simon who is a choir boy. Piggy's actions and the reactions from his fellow survivors foreshadow his eventual death.

In the story " Lord of the Flies " by William Golding; a plane crashes on a deserted island where the only people on it are kids. While, the kids are on the island they decided that they need a leader; the kids decided on Ralph to be their leader, but he doesn 't do so well when it came to controlling the little kids. So, who would make a better leader; Piggy would make a better leader than Ralph. The reason Piggy would make a better leader than Ralph is because Piggy: is very smart, is very resourceful, and is more mature than the others. How Piggy is smarter than Ralph.

Piggy is very intelligent, he comes up with ideas on how to help the boys survive on the island from the moment they crashed on it. Ralph starts begins to admire him for this clear focus on their rescue off the island. “ we can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They'll come when they hear us” (Pg 16)

For example, Piggy takes charge at the firs meeting of the boys to exclaim that they must build shelters and that a signal fire should be used in case a ship passes by the deserted island. Piggy has taken over as a leader of the group, even though he by no means has to. He feels that survival is the most important idea in their lives and all of the boys need know that. By making shelters and lighting a fire, the boys follow Piggy’s ideas of survival. Later, Piggy, at an assembly, demands that a littlun be allowed to speak when he quietly tries to express his opinion.

On the island, the boys are continually arguing, especially when a rift occurs between the group of boys. One example of Piggy’s effort to resolve the problems boys have is when Ralph goes to Castle Rock to confront Jack. Piggy helps Ralph by repeating, “‘Ralph remember what we came for. The fire. My specs.’

Just because he doesn’t look the part of a leader, people treat him differently, they pick on him. Piggy was with Ralph from the start, he was on his side. He was his political adviser, he told Ralph what to do and Ralph spoke to them aloud. Ralph was just the voice in front of Piggy’s doing. Piggy was the one who found the order and found the peace.

We'd make smoke just the same." (Golding, 100). The boys were trying to come up with ideas to get saved because the fire they had going wasn't doing too good for them and Piggy came up with the idea of making another fire down on the beach while having one on the mountain. The boys were hesitant but went along with it because they realized he had a good idea. When you give someone a chance and don't doubt them for no reason you will see something good or get something good out of it.

In the story, the author wrote, "Once more that evening Ralph had to adjust his values. Piggy could think. He could go step by step inside that fat head of his, only Piggy was no chief." Piggy's acumen is able to help the boys through Ralph's leadership by being his adviser. In the first chapter, Ralph and Piggy met each other and summarized about what happened the night before.