In some ways it depends on your perspective, but if you
look at it in terms of who ends up as the "winner," I would lean towards pointing to
Jack as the most "effective."
Ralph is described as a boy
who yearned to be a leader, who longed to be important and seized his chance as the boys
are gathering after this plane crash on the island. He tries very hard to act as an
adult and set up rules and procedures that will help hold them
together.
Jack immediately assesses the needs that the boys
have as well as their wants and quickly starts to pull boys away from Ralph's rules and
structures because he understands their need to band together against their fear, their
need to give in to their hunger and the power that he can have over them as the master
of the hunt.
So in the end, Jack draws away almost all of
the boys because he is able to understand more clearly their wants and needs whereas
Ralph is a bit too concerned with making things work the way he thinks they ought
to.
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