After Ralph blows the conch for the first time, all the choir arrive to where the party has gathered. Piggy proceeds to tell Jack every one name, however Jack says “Shut up fatty” then Ralph tells Jack and the rest of the boys it’s not Fatty its Piggy. This was a horrible and distasteful act as Piggy had specifically requested him not to tell. This shows he is immature at this present point of the novel.
Ralph after being declared chief had some problems of addressing certain points:
"Ralph was puzzled by the shutter that flickered in his brain. There was something he wanted to say; then the shutter had come down."
He starts to feel lost in their new environment as the boys, with the exception of Piggy begin to change and adapt to their freedom. Nevertheless, he does not lose his sense of responsibility; his viewpoints and priorities are beginning to differ from that of the savages'. He becomes more influenced by Piggy than by Jack. Which show he is interpreting the situation there in from a more practical view point as he now understands that Piggy is intelligent and the advice given is of valid quality.
Although the significance of the fire as a rescue signal is slowly dying down with the other boys, Ralph continues to stress the importance of the fire at the mountaintop. He seems to know have his priorities correct unlike previously when he first arrived on the island.
During the play-fight after their unsuccessful hunt in the course of their search for the beast, Ralph for the first time, gets an opportunity to join the hunters and share their desire for violence:
"Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering."
This I feel is a small fluctuation in Ralph’s positive development as this shows he was just as acceptable as any other to be caught in the heat of the moment and he did not control his thoughts.
When Ralph confronts Jack about stealing Piggy glasses this is a brave and unselfish act as he stands up for what is lawful. This I feel is a very mature thing Ralph has done. This a pivotal moment in the story as I feel this is where we truly see Ralph has a clear understanding about the moral aspects of life:
“You pinched Piggy specs,’ said Ralph Breathlessly. You’ve got to give them back.”
After Piggy and the conch were smashed by Rogers’s boulder, Ralph is forced into independence and he losses all his following to Jack's savagery. He then decides to determine how to avoid Jack's savage hunters alone. Ralph and his more responsible behaviour sets him apart from the other savage boys and makes it difficult for him to accept and realise the changes they are undergoing. I feel he handles the situation with great integrity, as you would expect a boy of Ralph age to lose control of his emotions however he keeps his composer and thinks logically about the state of his affairs:
“could climb a tree-but that was putting all his eggs in one basket.”
Ralph has come a long way in the aspect of maturity as at the beginning his main aim was for everyone to like him, where at the end he is more understanding of everyone else’s needs and the surrounding world. He comes to understand that the hearts of men has darkness routed inside of it, he know realises that his innocence has gone after this turmoil experience. He also comes to terms that he had made a true wise friend called Piggy, someone who he mocked in the beginning of the novel but later comes to understand his stout little friend.
