Ralph starts out the story as a really good person. His personality comes off as responsible, caring, devoted. But once he really gets going and involved with the mob mentality this quote says different, "Ralph too was fighter ing to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering." Ralph is a good person in the story, but his actions and everything get him caught up in the evil on the island that was occurring. It's human nature to think about ourselves and to do good deeds to make ourselves look better in others eyes. A lot of people may seem nice or have a nice personality. But once they get our certain things they change. Doing good thinks is just for us to look like a nice