At the beginning of the story, the choir obediently follows Jack, their chapter's chorister. When the chorus was introduced, “the boy [Jack] who was controlling them… shouted an order and they stopped…” (19-20). Jack didn't just lead the choir, he controlled it. While this is primarily because they are forced to fall in line and follow Jack out of fear of the adults, who have the power to punish them for their disobedience, there is also a twinge of hope that they also may one day have power, if they are loyal. and obeying the authority figure assigned to them. In the midst of society's transition to savagery, they gain some of this power, because Ralph, their new authority figure, gives it to them. Golding writes, “[Jack] looked at the right-wing newspapers, numbering the hunters who formed a choir” (127). As Golding writes, these boys are no longer a choir, with little or no power, but they are a band of hunters, with almost as much power as Ralph himself. They are the only armed boys on the island and have the power to kill any animal they want. Their loyalty to established authority rewards them by giving them this power. However, this loyalty is not tied to any one person; in fact, they are not loyal to authority, but simply to the power it promises. When Jack takes effective control of the island, the choir children follow him again, hungry for power.