“Ralph, I don't think we should be doing this.” I say to Ralph. “Timmy you only live once, just shut-up and listen to me.” “Fine.” *Facetime ended* I knew this was stupid and could only lead to more trouble but, if Ralph wants me to then I guess I'll have to. I trot up to my room and hop onto my bed, I try and shut my eyes, I fall asleep with the thought stuck in my head. Having to skip school and fake sick, just so I can't hangout with Ralph in our treehouse in the woods. The next morning I open my eyelids hearing my mom waking me up. I tell her that I don't feel good and my stomach is aching. I thought to myself of how many people use that excuse when they fake sick, ugh it's never going to work. “How about you take a day off and i'll check …show more content…
If he didn't make me do all these stupid things I would've never gotten in trouble. Why am I friends with such a messed up, idiotic kid. Things have to change, I can't be his friend anymore. I try and shut my eyes to fall asleep but my eyes just reopen with red flames in them from the rage and anger for all the years I have put of with Ralph. I keep repeating one word in my head over and over again. “Friendship.” I think of the meaning of friendship and how friends stick up for each other and help each other. How friends don't threaten the other and get them in trouble, and force them to do things, and ugh I just can't take it anymore. I see a memory with Ralph but it starts to fade, and fade, then gone. “Im ending our friendship.” The last words I say of the night. Then I finally get some rest and my eyes stay …show more content…
By the way I have other friends so I don't care if we aren't friends anymore.” He says with a smirk and starts laughing. So much for being nice I say to myself. “Well you're the stupid one, you're always doing all these stunts and your parents are even stupider for letting you do all this, at least my parents actually care about me. You and all your friends never do anything smart so I've had enough of all of you foolish ideas.. Goodbye!” Did I just say that, I did it! I finally said what I was scared to say for a year. I start to run through the forest with a huge smile on my face, until I realize that now I have to make a bunch of new friends. Oh god, well it can't be that hard. I start to run now with my heart beating about making a new friend.. Until I trip on this little twig in front of me. I pick it up and snap it in half and chuck it towards the treehouse that is now in the distance. I get to my house and just walk inside thinking about tomorrow and having to make a new friend. How hard it's going to be, just thinking about how hard it is to lose a friend, it's probably harder to make
This is the turning point for Ralph, not only as a person, but as a character in the book. Ralph goes from a somewhat flat character, to a round character, and with this transformation, he completes his dream, a dream which he had with him the whole time. Not only has he come to peace with himself and his accomplishments, he has come to peace with those around him, “Ralph watched the water fight with sadness in his heart, never guessing the scene would one day hearten him, as it did now.” (p296). Some may say that Ralph never achieved his dream. I say that he achieved his dream about half way through the book, he just didn’t realize all he had, and all he could lose until it was almost gone.
It’s all about what you believe is the right thing, and not caring what people think of you, even if they think you’re a bad guy. Ralph has always hated being the bad guy, and villain in his game. He wanted to be the good guy, and get all the awards at the end of the game, and become the good guy. But when Ralph leaves his game, he realizes that, he had made a big mistake, because he has an important role in the game, and without him, there was no game. This is when he realizes that he actually enjoys being the bad guy. Even though people don’t think that he is good, he does not care what people
When the little ones do not help out Ralph does not react in a violent
Friendship is reported here by Paterson in story form; that friendship whether serious or not has ended in tragedy. There will never be a friendship that lasts forever, that is in the mortal life, and, although affairs happen to change and affect the outcomes of that friendship, there will always be a story to tell about any life with or even without friendship, such as that of Jesse and Leslie, simple yet very complicated and heartfelt. Story form, yet very unreliable, is the only way to explain it, as long as the story entails all the necessary elements.
You like Ralph a lot,' these things upset Simon as deep down he knows the head is speaking out Simons inner deep
This quote explains hwo Ralph loses his train of thought and forgets his priorities,”Ralph -- remember what we came for. The fire. My specs.”(Golding 161) The only occasion where Ralph lapses into savagery is when he joins the ritual dance at the feast, the same feast where his friend Simon was killed. The guilt that Ralph experiences as an outcome of his being part of Simon’s death is unbearable. This forces him to fully accept the fallen nature of mankind. Just like Simon before him, Ralph becomes armed with the truth, and he becomes the hunted animal, full of desperation and despair. The naval officer can only save Ralph from the savagery that surround him.
They establish norms that at the beginning seem to work but in the end, they end up breaking them. Clashes between two boys, Ralph and Jack, soon arise and in the end, one of them decides to form his own group. From that moment, violence arises, which over time causes two tragic deaths. Ralph, who is one of the main characters of the novel, proves to be a child with very good intentions, very sensitive apparently, but very optimistic. He
Ralph, described as fair-haired by the author, is among the older schoolboys, but not yet a teenager, so the reader can assume he is anywhere from 9 to 12 years old. The character of Ralph is meant to represent society and morality. However, Ralph is not instinctively good and moral, either. He has to fight against urges of bloodlust and brutality, one of his main internal conflicts throughout the book. For example, at the feast in Jack’s tribe, Ralph is swept up into the frenzied “hunt”, when the boys accidentally murder Simon.
..., mourning their horrid experience on the island, as seen when the text states, “…Infected by [grief], the other little boys began to shake and sob…and in the middle of them…Ralph wept for the end of innocence, and the darkness of man’s heart…” (202.)
Winston Churchill, the former Minister of the United Kingdom, once said “Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.” In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there are many important characters who express traits that guide them in survival. One of the most important main characters is Ralph. He is determined, hard-working, brave, powerful, and intelligent. These traits are very crucial for a person to have in order to survive tough mental and physical times. One significant trait that Ralph has is he is determined.
‘Ralph and jack smiled at each other with shy liking.’ yet by the end they are mortal enemies.
“The loss of innocence for which Ralph weeps at the novel's close is not, however, a matter of transformation from childish goodness to adolescent depravity, is not a growing into wickedness. It is rather the coming of an awareness of darkness, of the evil in man's heart that was present in the children all along,” (Boyd). At the end of the novel, Ralph cries for a few reasons. He cries because he has lost his friend Piggy. He also cries because he has lost his innocence. He now realizes that there is evil in every man.
Although I still have my doubts that make me remember the detestable man he used to be. Today Ralph is making plans to leave Elmore and go to Little Rock, the next town over. Now why would Ralph need to leave town? I settled to following him and the Adams down to the bank where quite a ruckus began to stir. It became quite boisterous as I witnessed one of the younger children lock the other in Mr. Adam’s new state of the art bank vault. Her poor mother screamed in horror and I glanced at Ralph to see what his next move would be. He obviously knew how to open that vault and surprisingly he did just that, but before he did he asked Annabel, the banker’s daughter, for the rose pin she wore. In one swift movement Ralph went to open to open the door I was too far to see how exactly he did it, but it didn’t matter seeing as he opened the vault in a few minutes. The young girl was freed and Ralph simply got up and left, ignoring the calls for him I followed him out and it seemed that he was waiting for me. He looked at me and something shone in his eyes, something I had never seen from him before. At that moment I could see the transformation that had taken place. Ralph was no longer Jimmy Valentine he was a changed man who deserved to live out his new life with the woman that he loves. I just looked at him and directed him to the buggy that was waiting for confident that I was sending a new man into the
was Ralph's only way to get home and it is clear he knows this when he