Book Review 'Lord of the Flies'

In the beginning of the novel, Ralph is introduced first as a normal schoolboy. He quickly meets Piggy (nickname!), a nerd/dork/fatso, and becomes fast friends. Piggy looks onto Ralph for leadership and Ralph assumes the role of the leader with ease. Ralph cares about Piggy and is able to make sensible decisions on what they need and where they should go to. He feels that he should find the rest of the survivors and be civilized “like an Englishman”. He uses the conch shell as a symbol of authority and calls the rest of the survivors using it as a horn. They sits down in a meeting, to prevent a noisy squabble from happening, Ralph puts down the rule that during a meeting, only the person holding the conch can speak. This is somewhat like our parliament meetings and it can be seen that Ralph is able to command authority and stop disagreements, the fact that everyone listens to him also gives us a hint that he would become a good leader.
Before having the first meeting, Ralph and Piggy meet jack, who is a much older schoolboy than Ralph, exceeding Ralph in physical size and strength. When Ralph and Piggy meets jack, jack was hunting a small pig with a spear and almost injured the two. He did not apologize afterwards and seem to think it was Ralph’s fault that he scared away the pig. He despises Piggy and treats him like a rat. It is apparent that jack used to be a bully, picking on the small and weak. He did not like being asked to do things and provoked Ralph during the meeting, Ralph showed jack that he was not afraid of him and that shook jack pretty well. Readers easily tell that jack would pose a problem to everyone on the island and did not care to have Ralph around. Jack treats the whole island like a playground, with no adults to keep everyone in order, he wants to hunt and kill, and we can see that he is violent and cruel.
Ralph can be compared to our current and past prime ministers, who uphold order and made sensible laws that makes everything go smoothly. Ralph set up foraging groups, construction tasks, and guard duty at night, it was only after jack threatened to leave when Ralph yielded and agreed to have a hunting party as well, which was made up by all of jack’s “men”.
Jack was a different story altogether. He respected neither Ralph’s rules nor anyone on the island. He prefers to use intimidation and fear to rule, like a dictator or a triad boss, likewise training his hunting party to be yakuza. He only hunts and argue with Ralph about the way things is run.
After reading the first chapter, I feel that in a modern society, Ralph will make a good politician and leader as he understands what the people need and how to hand responsibilities out. Jack can be a dictator like Stalin, hated by the people and uses fear to rule all, getting rid of all that stands in his way. On the island, jack definitely stands in a better advantage as he gives much false promises of luxury and coerced the boys into joining him. Ralph has only Piggy as his ally and worries about what they need rather then what they want.