Upon arrival, Ralph and Roger both had very quiet personality traits. Roger “... kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.” Golding (22), while Ralph shared a similar tendency during his arrival: “His mouth was tight. He put back his hair very slowly... Forced his feet to move until they carried him out onto the neck of the land” (20). There is a small foreshadowing of Roger’s questionable outcome for his stay at the island in the way Goulding describes his “...inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.”. It seems aAs though Goulding is foreshadowing the Roger is, and will become, a sketchy, introverted individual who cannot be trusted due to his lack of selfless tendencies.
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The naval officer claimed to have seen their signal flame, which had actually been Jack and his savages devilish plan to smoke Ralph out of the forest to corner him, from his ship at sea. He then asked the boys if there were any adults in the uninhabited island and they replied with a quiet no. Following his question to them, he asked who their leader was. Ralph stepped up and said it was himself. Soon after Ralph broke down in a bawling fit on the beach. “The tears began to flow and sobs shook him...”(218) Ralph became a helpless child again under the leadership of an older, wiser adult. He letting all of the emotions escape that he had kept bottled up inside him in trying to maintain calm and order in front of, and for, the boys. The boys who looked up to Ralph as a leader would have seen this behavior and have been influenced to follow the same ways as their chief. Meanwhile, Roger became his quiet, intensely preserved self once again, just how he was when he arrived, under the leadership of an adult.
In the end, a reader may realize that both Ralph and Roger both have quiet, introverted personalities. What sets the two apart is how they chose to overcome those tendencies. Ralph took ownership of his flaws, and put them aside for the greater good of his people. Roger, in contrast, took ownership of his flaws by putting himself first and hitting others both physically, and emotionally. Once relieved from this new way of living, they quickly reverted back to their old
A short amount of time passed, and the absence …show more content…
The naval officer claimed to have seen their signal flame, which had actually been Jack and his savages devilish plan to smoke Ralph out of the forest to corner him, from his ship at sea. He then asked the boys if there were any adults in the uninhabited island and they replied with a quiet no. Following his question to them, he asked who their leader was. Ralph stepped up and said it was himself. Soon after Ralph broke down in a bawling fit on the beach. “The tears began to flow and sobs shook him...”(218) Ralph became a helpless child again under the leadership of an older, wiser adult. He letting all of the emotions escape that he had kept bottled up inside him in trying to maintain calm and order in front of, and for, the boys. The boys who looked up to Ralph as a leader would have seen this behavior and have been influenced to follow the same ways as their chief. Meanwhile, Roger became his quiet, intensely preserved self once again, just how he was when he arrived, under the leadership of an adult.
In the end, a reader may realize that both Ralph and Roger both have quiet, introverted personalities. What sets the two apart is how they chose to overcome those tendencies. Ralph took ownership of his flaws, and put them aside for the greater good of his people. Roger, in contrast, took ownership of his flaws by putting himself first and hitting others both physically, and emotionally. Once relieved from this new way of living, they quickly reverted back to their old