Ralph is a young, cleaver, sympothetic and is the protagonist in this story. He decided that this was not the way the islander should be behaving and should work together to save themselves untill someone comes for help Ralph built huts, finds food, supports the fire and tries to keep balence and order in the island. this was a smart move in my opinion. he tried to rebuild society within the island and work for a good part of the story. he's motivation was to keep everyone safe, and stick threw it till the end.
his arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him . . . ” (Golding 65). The boys struggle to come to terms with the reality of being trapped on the island without any grownups and therefore expect the usual punishments that were expelled upon them during their lives prior to the crash.
There are many events that led up to the downfall of the boys, all of which are important to ending result of the island. Had these events not occurred or been resolved differently, the fate of the island would not be the same. The passing of the ship, the murder of Simon, and the murder of Piggy are all important events leading up to the boys’ downfall. The ship passing the island is an important event leading up to the disintegration of the island. Up until this moment in the story, the boys are doing well, but they make the foolish mistake of letting the signal fire out.
The conch symbolizes power because whoever gets to hold it has the “political” power to voice their opinion amongst the islands civilization. As the novel progresses, the conch becomes less important and powerful due to the boys savagery. This theme of savagery becomes a huge problem with the boys and leads to the conch to being crushed by a boulder, which really proves that the sense of civilized living is gone. This shows just how much of an important symbol the conch is in the novel and was the only thing left of the boys’ sanity. Another important symbol in the novel is the actual “Lord of the Flies”, which is a severed sow’s head that Jack stuck on a stake in offering to the beast.
If the boys weren’t trapped on the island, they would not be forced to grow into a slaughterer. Furthermore, another conflict that acts upon the boy’s tremendous transition is lack of authority. The boys set rules and restrictions when they make their presence on the island; “We’ll have rules… lots of rules!” (33) The boys eventually learned to manipulate their freedom: “You’re breaking the rules!”(91) “Who cares?” (91) The lack of authority made it impossible to keep the rules enforced. Things worsened due to lack of restrictions: “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever… the rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee…” (181) Lack of authority severely triggers the boy’s transition. Hence, if there were more authority the boys could not stand a chance for such dreadful change.
Golding uses the verbs ‘tucked’ and ‘crouched’ to suggest that Piggy is putting himself in a protective position as he is the only one who grasps the direness of their situation. Furthermore, Golding uses the boys’ dependency on the ‘conch’ to powerfully portray how the boys are relying on this simple object to keep order within the camp. Indeed, Golding even suggests that they are relying on the conch to protect them from themselves ‘Piggy fell against a rock and clutched it with both hands.’ This dependency is what suggests to the reader how fragile the boys’ situation is and how a simple problem such as ‘letting the fire out’ can destroy the democracy of the island. Golding powerfully portrays how Jack wants
Also, Johnson uses personal references to show importance in learning to fear less of the inevitable bombs, as well as, taking away the knowledge that death is inevitable, but one can live life without fearing this final explosion. Lastly, Johnson uses exemplification to prove everyone experiences countless destructive bombs, but to truly live life one must not hold onto misery nor fear. Johnson’s writing drives a very important lesson in which everyone should know and carry with them throughout life. Johnson shows that with youth, bombs are not necessarily felt until a bomb explodes enough to burn up one’s innocence away. Johnson writes, “For although our sorrow was real, we still had some sense of a protective curtain between us and the bombs” (213).
Later, as Ralph tries to escape the vengeance of the hunters, he lies "there in the darkness" realizing he is "an outcast" and rationalizes this by verbally saying to himself, "Cause I had some sense." At this point in the novel, Ralph has accomplished the mighty task of becoming an adult and furthermore, will never have a childhood similar to the one he had before the "scar," before Piggy and Simon, and especially before Jack. Ralph's childhood is replaced now by a maturity many adults never attain, thus setting him far ahead of the rest. Golding culminated the novel with the destruction of the island and where "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." Only mature adults remember true friends, weep for the end of innocence, and are capable of destroying an island.
To gain total control his actions lead to the savagery fire in the end of the novel that means to destroy but, ends up being the boy’s key to rescue. Jack’s savagery actions are what save them in the end as the officer states how he “saw your smoke”
After the members of Ralph's tribe get killed, Ralph becomes next in line because he is the only one left. At the end, a rescue occurs by an adult who saw their fire, and the boys become children again. One thing the movie lacks are the boys finding each other when the conch is blown. Also when Jack is out looking to kill Ralf, the book talks about how anonymous boy found Ralph hiding but the movie shows how some boys find Ralph hiding but they do not rat him out. I think they did this to show more of a loyalty to Ralph.