When Ralph loses confidence is shows in his speech because he seems to lose track of what he is saying, as "curtain flickers in his brain."
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It mainly shows when he hits the pig with the spear and Jack tries to grab it and gets hurt and everyone starts paying attention to Jack and not him.
Ralph
Because Ralph doesn't hide his emotions, he expresses them freely. When he is ecstatically happy he stands on his head and when he is angry he loses his temper. Ralph 'wears his heart on his sleeve' for all to see and they know exactly where they stand with him.
In the book The Lord of the Flies, it is mentioned that a curtain flicks in Ralph's mind. Obviously, there is no actual curtain in Ralph's head; the metaphor is describing what he feels like when he loses his train of thought.
Ralph Waite played John Walton on the classic show "The Walton's." He was born in 1928 and died in February of 2014.
Because Ralph doesn't hide his emotions, he expresses them freely. When he is ecstatically happy he stands on his head and when he is angry he loses his temper. Ralph 'wears his heart on his sleeve' for all to see and they know exactly where they stand with him.