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William Golding’s novel, Lord Of The Flies, illustrates the loss of innocence in the character Ralph by showing his emotions and reactions to events in the book. Also as problems become more convoluted, his maturity level increases. In the novel Golding portrays Ralph as a very precocious and mature twelve year old boy, who cares about the well being and safety of not only himself but also of the other boys on the island. In the novel Ralph struggles to set a positive example for the boys, and not allow them fall into Jack’s manipulative mind traps where all he wants is to control the boys, and have all of the power.
In the novel Ralph portrays the strength and composure of the group because he always tries to hold the group together, and keep his cool. From the moment the boys elect Ralph as the head leader of the group, he is always on task and focused on beneficial priorities, not meaningless tasks that would just waste time and cause the boys to procrastinate and not achieve anything. “And they keep running off. You remember the meeting? How everyone was going to work hard until the shelters were finished?”(50). Ralph had his mind set on building shelters for the boys, because it was their protection from harm on the island such as things like bad weather and dangers of
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the forest and, it gave the boys a sense of security; however Jack was too hell bent on killing the pig, even though he was supposed to help Ralph and Simon with the shelter. Ralph and Jack are the same exact age, however they are at totally different maturity level, this is obvious because they both have their minds set on totally two different things, one being a priority, the other being a waste of time.
Another one of Ralph’s priorities was setting a positive example for the boys and being a role model for them, which meant striving to keep the boys in unity. When things went from bad to worse Ralph didn’t loose hope or give up, he strives to keep the group together until the very end. “‘Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy and then-… Then people started getting frightened.’”(82). The boys are getting very of task and becoming extremely disorientated by the thought of there being a beast on the island; Ralph is having a meeting with the boys and Jack around the fire (using the conch) attempting to calm the boys down and he relieving any insecurities that the “littleluns” have, also he is reassuring them that nothing or no one will harm them, and they are safe. Ralph is the only boy out of the older bunch, who is taking the initiative to alleviate the emotional dilemmas that are circulating throughout the boys; he handles all troubles, problems etc, in an adult manner, he is very nonchalant about things and tried hard not to make a big deal because if he did then this would cause more panic and fear in the group.
Throughout the novel Ralph did make mistakes, however after he committed them he felt extremely guilty and remorseful. For example when all of the boys joined in and started pretending to kill rabbit and using him as an “imaginary pig” and they all
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pretended to stab him and Ralph joined in, however things got way out of hand and lines were crossed; Ralph felt horrible, he felt very barbaric and savage. “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and through the air of the true, wise friend he called Piggy.”(202). At the very end of the novel Ralph was the only boy on the island who cried because of all the mistakes and wrong that went on throughout the duration while the boys lived on the island; Ralph cried because he realized he made mistakes, and was sorry for them. It’s hard for people to admit when they made mistakes or did something wrong, but it’s even harder to feel remorse and pain over them.
William Golding’s novel, Lord Of The Flies, exhibits the loss of innocence in the character Ralph by showing his sentiment and responses to proceedings in the book and also as issues become more complex, his maturity level increases. This is proven because Ralph is the only one on the island who takes charge and focuses on advantageous priorities, he handles all problems and dilemmas in an “adult manner” and maintains his serenity throughout them, and lastly he admits when he is wrong and shows compassion and remorse. Ralph is a twelve year old boy, who managed to take care a group of boys ranging from the ages of five to twelve, he tried to keep them together and united as one for as long as he could, he gave it his best and he eventually got them safe and off the island; if adults were in his situation with the same exact circumstances eventually they just would have snapped and loose all patience and give up on the boys, but no, Ralph did not do that.