Characters in focus

Hey readers! 

Today, I will focus on the different characters in Lord of The Flies. The main character is Ralph and he is one of the oldest and most capable of the children. He and piggy was the first to gather the rest of the kids and establish a society. Unlike the rest of the kids, Ralph delegates tasks to the rest of the kids to get things done. However, he is actively counteracted by a kid named Jack. Jack pulls away the small kids from their duties to go hunting, which yields little to no food. There is a conflict growing between Jack and Ralph, since they both are leader types that have different points of view. Jack thinks it is more important to survive than to be rescued.

The second kid we get to know is nicknamed piggy against his will. He is an overweight boy with glasses. The glasses later come in handy to start a fire. Although he is smart, he is kind of useless on the island. The third kid, and the antagonist is named Jack. He nominated himself as leader for the tribe, but Ralph won the vote. Now, he is sort of a second in command. I don’t think that he is happy being second in command, so he will most likely gather a group and break away from Ralph. I’m sure he will gather some of the older kids, since he despises the small kids nicknamed “littluns”.

The rest of the characters are mostly unnamed. They are a combination of littluns and biguns who are running around hunting and bathing. There are some biguns who are capable of building huts, but they are easily distracted and often wander off hunting instead.

The next blog post will focus on what has happened in the book so far. Later!