Ralph

Pre-novel
You don't know much about Ralph before the accident, besides that his father was in the navy. You also know that he was athletic.

Novel
At the beginning of the book Ralph and Piggy are the only two that are with eachother. Piggy finds the conch then tells Ralph how to blow in it to make a sound so that all the other boys would hear and come look. Which works, so they all get together and do an assembly. A majority of the boys vote Ralph as the leader of them.

At the beginning of the book Ralph does not understand why the other boys aren't work, and why some of them are addicted to hunting. So he starts to understand that all of the boys have the urge to hunt within them, and to not let it overwelm them. When he hits his first boar he becomes overwelmed with excitment and wants to hunt more. So when he attends Jack's fest and Simon comes out of the jungle, he participates in killing him.

Later in the book Jack and a few of the hunters come and beat up piggy for his glasses. So Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric go to castle rock to get the glasses back. Once there Ralph and Jack get into a fight, and Roger pushes a boulder on Piggy, which makes Ralph run back into the jungle, once there he finds the pig head on the stick and takes it off and takes the stick. He uses that to go and fight Jack and the others, to get to Sam and Eric. But then he gets pushed back and forced into the jungle. Then he smells smoke, and relizes Jack set the jungle on fire to make sure he dies. So he has to run out of the jungle then faints from exhaustion. When he wakes up he sees a naval officer.