Ralph Bar's Childhood

Lord of the Flies has many meanings to it that are represented through the characters and their feelings. When comparing the characters in the Lord of The Flies, you can see the obvious change in most of them from the beginning of the book to the end. The two main characters are Ralph, the protagonist and Jack, the antagonist. Ralph and Jack both have different qualities and beliefs that define each of them completely and at times make them both alike in many ways. They both represent what we are and what they were, Civilized and Savage.

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys who are lost on a deserted island and must do what they can to survive. At the beginning of the novel, two of the boys, Ralph and Jack, become leaders. These differences will form the main conflict in the story. The differences will cause them to hate each other and the anger that results is a recurring part of the plot throughout the novel. These two boys can be compared by the way they change, the reason for their actions, and the way they use or abuse power.

William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies displays pivitol moments revealing someones level of maturity. Lord of the Flies takes place in the aftermath of a plane crash, the surviving population of boys create a society forcing them to assume adult roles. Golding novel proves the island reveals the childrens level of maturity through Ralph, Piggy, and, Simon.

"How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?" (Chapter 2, Page 45) In the classic novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, the boys were worried about three things: finding food and water, making a shelter, and getting rescued. As the story goes on, Ralph and Jack - the group’s leaders - had taken their separate paths: Jack wanted to focus on keeping them alive by bringing them food while Ralph wanted to focus on getting rescued. In the end, Ralph, Jack, and a few other boys had been rescued by a naval officer whom had found them on the island.

To further illustrate, in “Lord of the Flies” the character, Ralph, is a round and dynamic character. Ralph can be classified as this type of character because of the changes he undergoes as the story unfolds. To explain, at the beginning of the story, Ralph is confident and optimistic when himself and multiple boys crash on an island. He takes control and earns the trust if the group. Ralph conducts assemblies and his words are determined and civilized, “All at once he found he could talk fluently and explain what he had to say… ‘we want to be rescued; and of course, we shall be rescued…we must make a fire”’ (Golding 32-38). Ralph’s words and actions show his boldness to take control and his strong belief in being rescued. However, as the story continues, the system and trust Ralph establish begins to diminish, resulting in two separate groups. The one group contains Ralph and very few civilized boys, and the second group is made up Jack and the savages. Although the groups are at peace at first, multiple fights and Piggy’s stolen glasses causes Ralph to partially change. This change is revealed to the readers when Ralph and Piggy go to the saves to retrieve the glasses, “Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance… ‘Ralph-remember what we came for. The fire. My specs”’ (Golding 177). During this mission, the once civilized Ralph begins to fight with the savages and he acted barbaric himself. Ralph’s and actions and Piggy’s words show the reader how Ralph transformed the course of the book from being civilized and confident with his word; however, Ralph is now becoming a savage and loses his optimistic attitude. Piggy’s words to Ralph, shows how Ralph is forgetting the idea of being civilized because Piggy must constantly remind Ralph of their mission, but Ralph seems to just want to fight. Ralph’s shift in personality shows the reader that he is a dynamic and round character. Therefore, Ralph’s character undergoes development; however, Brutus in “Julius Ceaser” changes in an equivalent way.

      There are many ways a person can be a Hero! Sometime it is the main character of the book, or sometime it could be an average person. In Golding’s book “Lord of the Flies”, Ralph is being portrayed as the leader and the hero. In the story the Lord of the Flies it’s about a group boys on a island after their plane is shot down. Since they are alone, they are free from the rules of civilization and society. This will lead to slowly descending into savagery. Soon the boys start having conflicts and they split into factions. One faction members are peacefully and work together to maintain order and achieve common goals. While the other faction are rebels

Ralph lives with his mother, father, and younger brother and sister. His mother is a stay at home more, while his father works downtown at a local business as a computer programmer. Ralph’s mother says the strengths he possesses is his charm, hard worker, and his math skills are improving. Ralph says his strengths are, playing video games, watching TV, irritating his sister, and playing basketball. Ralph’s interests include mushroom hunting, fishing, camping, playing outside, sports, and computers. He says he prefers to work by himself, or in groups, but likes to read silently. His mother says his weaknesses include not bringing homework home, which shows why he does not turn in homework assignments. Ralph does not have many friends in the

Ralph D. Abernathy Sr. was born on March 11, 1926, in Linden Alabama, the 10th of 12 children born to Louis Very Abernethy and William Abernathy, a farmer and deacon. Upon graduating from high school, Abernathy was drafted into the U.S. Army in the middle of World War II, subsequently leaving his family's 500 acre farm.

Ralph had been born to two wonderful parents of the names Leo Baer and Lotte Kirschbaum on the day of March 8th 1922. He was originally born in Rodalben, Germany and spent all the way up to his teenage years there. Life wasn’t very easy for him in his hometown, he was expelled from his first school because of his ancestry and his beliefs. Baer had later been forced to go to an all Jewish school until he finally moved to New York during his teenage years to escape the persecution previously mentioned. He became a naturalized United States citizen.

Why is Ralph, of all the boys on the island, the chief? In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys under twelve years of age are stranded on an uninhabited island with no adult supervision. The group of boys vote Ralph as their chief, mostly because he is the boy that holds the conch. After a few weeks on the island, with a more thorough understanding of the boys’ personalities, is Ralph really capable in leading the boys? Ralph is the best candidate for chief because he knows how to prioritize and practically solves problems.

In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Golding describes the individual journey of Ralph, one of the main characters, throughout the book. Stranded on an island, Ralph and the other kids try to do whatever it takes to try to get out of there. However as days go by and the days are decreasing , so is everyone else’s mental stability, especially Ralph’s. Ralph’s power starts at an increase but then drastically decreases as time goes by.

Ralph is a young boy with fair hair and a tall and skinny frame. He likes to swim and explore things, he is even a pretty good acrobat. He is mainly a very good boy, but nobody is perfect so he does have a little bit of a bad side. He is not a very fast thinker, but he knows what he wants and that is to be rescued. He is the leader of the boys on the Island and was a good one too.

By the time Charles graduated from High School his mother had made arrangements for him to enter Central Christian College [Oklahoma Christian College]. Two years later (1955) he entered Harding College graduating in 1957. He taught at the Ganus Christian School in New Orleans for five years.

A good leader is someone who leads or commands a group and has an open mind for others opinions. Ralph from Lord of the Flies, is a great example of this. At the beginning of the story, Ralph picks up a conch and blows into it like a trumpet to call all the kids on the island. This is an ideal example of being a leader, Ralph makes the decision on regrouping with the other survivors to help each other. Another example of Ralph being a good leader is when the little ones and everyone was all wild and uncontrollable Ralph calms them down and directs them to help them survive. Throughout the book Ralph shows that he is a good leader.

All his teachers liked him a lot, and he skipped a whole bunch of grades.(add more detail about his schooling)He graduated high school at the age of 15. That is a big load younger than the age normal people would be when they graduate from high school. He received his Bachelor's degree on July 21, 1948 at Morehouse