By Chapter 7 of Golding's "The Lord of the Flies" Ralph begins to accept their dirty living conditions on the island as normal. The boys are all dirty, with long hair and filthy by clothes. This acceptance adds to his feelings of despair about them ever being rescued.
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Being dirty all the time.
Ralph realised that he had come to accept living in a constant state of dirt as normal. His clothes were dirty and his hair was too longer for his own liking. He realised as he looked at the other boys that while none of them were spectacularly dirty, like boys who had fallen in mud might be, inaccessible areas of their skin was ingrained with dirt.
Ralph's father is a commander in the Navy. Ralph's family have moved to a succession of houses as he father has been moved to different naval bases. When Ralph thinks about living in a house on the edge of the moors near Devonport, he also remembers that "Mummy had still been with them and Daddy had come home every day." As divorce was very uncommon when the book was written it might be assumed that it Ralph's parents weren't separated then perhaps his mother had died.
Piggy and the twins come to Ralph with a feast of properly ripened fruit.
Tony Soprano strangled him to death after they had a fight in Ralph's house. Tony's horse, Pie-O-My had been burnt in a fire that Tony had suspected Ralph had something to do with. There was a fight in Ralph's house and when Ralph was dead, Tony called Christopher to come and dismember the body.