What is Ralph's attitude toward Piggy in the first chapter?

Answer 1

Initially Ralph viewed Piggy as an uninvited and unwanted intrusion on his pleasure at finding himself on a tropical island. Ralph walked off when Piggy was forced to asnwer a call of nature, he didn't wait for the fat boy. Ralph didn't ask Piggy what his name was, probably because he wasn't in the slightest bit interested. Ralph probably felt that he had nothing in common with a fat asthmatic boy who wore a greasy wind-breaker, dropped letters from his words and who didn't know how to swim. Gradually however Ralph's attitude to Piggy began to change. When Ralph found the conch in the lagoon it was Piggy who identified it and told him that it could be blown. Piggy also suggested calling the rest of the boys on the island. Over the course of the book Piggy was constantly on hand to remind Ralph, when he lost track of what he was saying probably due to Petit Mal epilsepsy. Piggy was the voice of reason who suggested lighting a signal fire on the beach when it seemed that the beast was preventing the boys from relighting the fire on the mountain. Slowly Ralph's attitude changed from indifference, through a period where he simply made use of Piggy's abilities, to companionship and finally to the realisation that Piggy had been his friend.

Answer 2

what is Ralph's Attitude towards Piggy

Ralph's attitude towards Piggy in the first chapter is a negative attitude towards him, because Piggy is intelligent and is closely tied to the world of adults. Ralph also belittles Piggy by making fun of his name and Ralph told the rest of the group he name is Piggy when Piggy clearly told him not too.

Alternative answer: Ralph is actually rather tolerant of Piggy's presence when you consider that it is pretty obvious that he sees Piggy as an unwanted and uninvited presence who intrudes on his pleasure at finding himself on a tropical island. The mere fact that Ralph never asks Piggy for his name indicates that he has no interest in him. Ralph probably feels that he has little in common with a fat, asthmatic boy who can't swim, wears thick glasses and who imposes his company on to someone who blatantly wishes he would go away. Ralph however is a good enough leader to make use of other people's supposed strengths, which is probably why he simply asked Piggy to collect the boy's names. To quote Ralph's own words "Better Piggy than Fatty." After all Piggy didn't bother to tell anyone what his real name was when Jack called him Fatty and Ralph had no idea what it was. People forever refer to Piggy as being intelligent but there is little evidence of this. Piggy remembered meeting another boy who had a conch on his garden wall and blew it, he hadn't read about it, he just remembered it. He also suggested lighting a signal fire near the beach when they thought the beast was on top of the mountain. These are the only noticeable claims that Piggy could lay to intelligence, even though suggesting moving the fire to top of Castle Rock, where it would have been more visible, didn't occur to him. For a supposedly intelligent boy he had no understanding of the other boys or how to talk to them, hence he aggravated Jack's tribe sufficiently for them to kill him.

Answer 3

Because Ralph starts laughing at what the kids used to call Piggy. He was saying "Piggy!" "Piggy, Piggy!) Piggy asks Ralph not to tell the other kids and after Jack Merridew calls Piggy "Fatty" , Ralph says that "Fatty" is not his name, Piggy is!!

Answer 4

When Ralph initially meets Piggy he appears to find him a bit of an annoyance. Ralph is filled with the sheer pleasure of finding himself on a tropical island with no adults to spoil things, he is so happy that he stands on his head. And then, a fat boy in a greasy windbreaker intrudes and gabbles on about the plane crash, eating too much fruit, his auntie and other things in which Ralph has no interest at all. Over the course of the novel however Ralph increasingly finds himself relying on the support of Piggy and on the fat boys ideas and encouragement. By the end of the book Ralph finally realises that Piggy was his one true friend on the island.Piggy is very fat and should not be on the island.As he is the kind of a crybaby inthe story. he ought not to be in the book or the island and should not be mentioned at all.

Answer 5

Ralph appears to view Piggy as an unwanted intrusion who interrupts Ralph's pleasure at finding himself on a tropical island without any interfering adults. Piggy constantly imposes himself on Ralph although Ralph tries, in an offhand and casual way, to show that he really isn't interested in the fat boy's company. Nevertheless Piggy tags along and proves to be useful when he identifies the conch and tells Ralph that it can be blown. As the chapter progresses Ralph seems to see beyond the fat, asthmatic exterior and realises that even if he wouldn't willing choose Piggy as a companion the fat boy is actually useful to have around.

Answer 6

Piggy was talkative and eager to make friends but Ralph seemed to find Piggy to be an unwanted intrusion on his pleasure at finding himself on a tropical island. You definitely get the impression that if Ralph wasn't such an easy going and pleasant boy (and was more like Jack) he'd have simply told Piggy to "Push off."

Answer 7

Ralph treated Piggy with utter disrespect. He teased him, called him "Piggy" and was generally sour to Piggy. Personally, I felt heart-broken over Piggy and was furious when he died.

Hope this helped!

Answer 8

in the begining

Answer 9

he calls him fat