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Ralph's mouth watered. He meant to refuse meat, but his past diet of fruit and nuts, with an odd crab or fish, gave him too little resistance. He accepted a piece of half-raw meat and gnawed it like a wolf' (73).
Ralph is following Jack's ways of savagery because he is hungry and everyone else is doing it.
He felt himself facing something ungraspable' (37).
The narrator told this about Ralph in reference to the beast. It is symbolic because it was actually true that the beast was inside of them and not something tangible.
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' (115).
Again, he felt the urge to be a savage, and he thinks it's worth it because he is very hungry and wants actual meat for once.
"But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one- (81).
Ralph believes that being rescued is more important than hunting and eating all the time.
"We can't keep one fire going. And they don't care. And what's more, I don't sometimes- (139).
Ralph is losing hope that they will be rescued, but he still needs to keep order on the island, otherwise they may never be.
He. gazed at the green and black mask before him, trying to remember what Jack looked like' (178).
Ralph has completely forgot what Jack used to look like, back when he was civilized and well mannered.
If faces where different when lit from above or below "what was a face? What was anything?' (78).
What this passage means is that if you look at someone or something one way, chances are they'll be something else; something you won't expect.
" "After all we aren't savages really and being rescued isn't a game "- (170).
Ralph tries to bring order and hope back to the group, and assures them that what they are dealing with isn't some dream or game, and that it is real and people really can get hurt.
