And what's more, I don't sometimes- (139). Ralph believes that being rescued is more important than hunting and eating all the time. "But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one- (81). The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering' (115).Īgain, 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. Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. It is symbolic because it was actually true that the beast was inside of them and not something tangible. The narrator told this about Ralph in reference to the beast. He felt himself facing something ungraspable' (37). Ralph is following Jack's ways of savagery because he is hungry and everyone else is doing it. He accepted a piece of half-raw meat and gnawed it like a wolf' (73). He meant to refuse meat, but his past diet of fruit and nuts, with an odd crab or fish, gave him too little resistance.
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