In Lord of the Flies what does Ralph dream and daydream about?

Answer 1

Ralph's daydreams inevitably involve home. Ralph is deeply homesick and wants more than anything to be rescued and to return home. In chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees the boys are making there way from castle rock towards the mountain. When they pause for a while Ralph drifts into a daydream about a cottage he once stayed in on the edge of the moor. He remembered the wild ponies which used to come to the garden wall and could visualise laying in a shed in the garden and watching snow falling. Ralph recalled having cornflakes with sugar and cream in bed and the shelf full of familiar books next to the bed. At night his dreams of home were sometimes invaded my unpleasant nightmare images, a bus was one theme, which had their roots in his anxiety over the direction in which Jack was influencing the boys on the island.

Also in "The Shell and the Glasses" Ralph was dreaming about a bus coming nearr and nearer

Answer 2

In chapter seven, it depends on what part you are referring to. But if i would go to chapter seven and look for what Ralph is longing for then i would go to the hunt. When Jack, comes across pig droppings and brings the boys onto the hunt, and Ralph at that point throws his spear and grazes the pig. Yet in the end the pig gets away.

The boys start to dance and chant and Robert acts like the pig himself and the reenactment begins from there, until the point Robert is screaming for his life. In the end Robert suggests they use a real pig next time and Jack says they should use a littum.

so in turn i think that in Chapter seven Ralph is longing for acceptance with the hunters. this hunt displayed here was Ralph's first hunt and really his first time being with the hunters, and so he wants to be accepted as before he never was seen as "hunting or doing manly things." After all Ralph is just a kid and wants to fit in.

I hope this is what you are looking for.

Answer 3

Ralph sees the Lord of the Flies who is really symbolized as the Pig skull attached to the sharpened stick at both end, sees how the skull was cleaned so thoroughly at the flies eating the flesh. Ralph has a premonition of something evil lurking around him eradiating from the skull itself. The eerie feeling from the skull becomes stronger and Ralph become angry at this. He punches at the skull or kicks it and the skull breaks in half. As soon as this happens Ralph is no longer afraid. I believe the symbolism here is the skull represent the devil and ralph is tempted and in fear of his presence that could possibly inhibit him, when he breaks the skull, he conquered the Lord of the Flies. Ralph then takes the sharpened stick the skull sat on for protection from the boys hunting him.

Answer 4

Ralph has one overriding passion, which is to be rescued, and to achieve that aim he is determined at all costs to keep the signal fire lit.

Answer 5

He dreams about home , and how his life was .

Answer 6

being chief

Answer 7

sex