Lord of the flies

• Ralph is the epitome of a British boy

-handsome

-sporting

-decent

-honorable

• Golding describes him as mild- featured- "there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil" ~(page 5, chapter1)

• He has no hidden depth or unhealthy traits

• His good behavior and cleanliness probably is linked to his background and his fathers military orientations
• His quaint family home is all that keeps him sane

• Systematic problem solver
  

- devises the convention that the conch holder is the speaker.

• Although Ralph uses Piggy's name to get a laugh at the beginning of the novel. Ralph lacks the malevolent intentions that Jack has. He also finds the way out after