Part 1.
Answer 1. (Why the society fell apart. Because of the leaders or because of the situation.)
I think the society fell apart because of the leaders that they chose, Ralph and Jack. The situation they were in would be hard for anyone, however, if there wasn’t the conflict of who should rightfully be leader then it would have been a different story. One of the few reasons that the society fell apart was that Ralph gave Jack authority and two different people with different ideas that don’t like or respect each other can’t lead together. In addition to that at their immature age Jack, being a brat, instead of discussing his own ideas with Ralph just went behind his back and made his thoughts become orders. The importance of keeping the fire going or hunting could have been settled between the two of them instead of creating an argument later and a quickly growing hatred between them.
I don’t think Ralph or Jack should have been leader. Ralph was smart and did have a good idea of what was most important and that would be getting off the island, but his constant arguments with Jack influenced him to take over. Jack shouldn’t have been in charge for the obvious reason that he tortured people for disagreeing with him which wasn’t a good way to rule. I can imagine many think Piggy should lead, but Piggy wasn’t respected by anyone and no one would have taken his ideas seriously, except maybe Ralph and Simon, and the society would have fallen apart just the same. In my opinion, Simon would have been the right choice. There is of course the issue that he went insane, but for the time that he wasn’t he would have been almost perfect. He was smart, kind to everyone, and he didn’t have any enemies on the island.
Answer 2. (What i think would happen if the we were locked in the school with no supervision.)
If there was no adult supervision and all of us kids were locked in the school it would be chaotic at first and in the end it would get much worse. It would start with a total riot until one of the older, scarier, and more intimidating seniors decided to take charge. I don’t imagine that he would be smart, just some popular tough guy with a huge ego. He would lose control of whats important and get overtaken by greed and power. Then one person out of all of us would be brave and point out that he didn’t know what he was doing and the leader would get angry and begin to hurt anyone who dared point out his flaw’s. I would think the leader would be similar to Jack. Jack got mad when ever Piggy said anything that offended him even at the slightest and would taunt Piggy afterwards because he was embarrassed that someone so unimportant would say such a thing. Soon even his closest friends would see what he turned into and they would gang up on him and kill him in fear that if they didn’t he would eventually kill one of them when he got bored of merely torturing them. Then there would be no leader and they would be back where they started crazy with freedom and now murderers afraid of each other.
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