If
there's a hero in , it's . He's the sensible, rational one, the boy who
realizes that, if this party of stranded schoolboys is to survive, there needs to be some kind
of rules-based order on the island. Otherwise, Ralph realizes with remarkable prescience, the
boys will descend into outright savagery.
Yet none of the other boyswith the
notable exception ofand are remotely interested in establishing any semblance of civilization.
Most of the boys just want to have fun. Free from sustained adult supervision for the first time
in their short lives, they'd much rather spend their time skinny-dipping or hunting than getting
down to the hard graft of building fires and constructing shelters. So right from the get-go,
Ralph finds himself in conflict with most of the other boys, even during that all-too-brief
period when they accept him as their leader.
At the same time, Ralph himself
is still a boy, and as such he has a natural desire to be one of the boys....
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