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Ralph Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis

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Ralph is immediately admired as a leader. Everyone but Jack and his friends vote for Ralph over Jack. Those that voted for Ralph did so because of all his proven leadership qualities. He is confident, anything but shy, strong, and he is clear that he will do anything to get them rescued including doing a lot of the dirty work himself such as hunting the beast and building all of the shelters. Ralph tries to keep a friendship going between him and Jack after he wins the mini election by appointing him leader of the hunters. This shows that Ralph does not hold any childish grudges. His commitment to maintaining a friendship grows even more when he realizes Jack is turning to savagery side. Ralph is one of the only kids on the island to admire and respect Piggy, and does not bully him unlike most of the other kids. He doesn’t leave anyone out, and listens and …show more content…

He takes as much action as he can to keep the fire alight, and is completely distraught when the fire burns out and the distant ship passes. He proceeds to strongly state the importance of the fire and tries his hardest to keep it alight. At first, Ralph is excited at the fact that there are no adults on the island, but immediately after he begins to wish for the comfort and organization of the society he grew up accustomed to. He realizes the importance of getting back home, and then focuses all his time trying to achieve that. Ralph perfectly contrasts Jack’s force for evil with his force for good, but as more and more of the boys joined the hunters, Jack’s savagery outweighed Ralph’s force for good. Ralph always did his best to keep order. He respected all of the rules of the conch, and enforced them when characters such as Jack interrupted those speaking while holding the conch, especially Piggy. Ralph is described as the perfect boy physically. He is attractive with his blonde hair and fit body, and author William Golding described him to have the body of a

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Towards the middle of the book, Jack starts to push Ralph more, he starts making Ralph become stricter, and enforce the rules, and in turn, leads Ralph to do things that would surprise everybody, like hitting the boar in the snout with the spear, and getting mad at Jack, and fighting him. Even stepping up in the very beginning, Ralph may not be the strongest leader, or the bet at hunting, but he has the best people skills, he wants to make sure what he’s doing is in best regards for the group, and that everyone is on board with it. Another reason why Ralph is a good leader, is because when he calls a meeting, he tries to keep it as organized as possible by only letting the person with the conch shell

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Ralph- Overall Ralph is a pretty independent character. He was elected the leader of the boys at the beginning of the story. Ralph is a natural born leader and has influences over the other boys. Ralph has the conch shell which symbolizes a sense of power, he blows the conch shell to assemble all the boys together to meet. Without Ralph it is very unlikely the boys would have a leader and be as organized.

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Ralph was seen as a leader almost immediately after he had blown the conch and brought everyone on the island together. Even though the people had elected him as the leader, Jack had a big impact on the kind of leader he was. Jack’s point of view often differed from Ralph’s, which led to Jack pressuring him into changing his values multiple times throughout the book. Piggy had also impacted Ralph’s leadership skills by giving him multiple ideas and being his voice of reason. If Ralph had not had Piggy by his side, he would forget about their goal of being rescued and descend into savagery along with the other boys.

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