saying the fire must be kept going on with a lot of smoke so they could be rescued. He would always try to remind everyone of rescue and civilization. He pretty much kept things in order in the beginning before things started falling apart. Without Ralph, atavism would've taken a hold on the boys sooner than it did. Time and time again, Ralph showed through his actions or words how important rescue was to him and for everyone. The time where there was a ship passing by but Jack and his hunters who were responsible for keeping the fire going, went off hunting and let the fire go out. When Jack finally returned, they finally for the first time had meat. Everyone was so ecstatic you'd think Ralph would not be as mad. The ship was so important to Ralph, he showed no joy, instead, all that came out of his mouth was "You let the fire go out" (69). Jack was a little irritated but he didn't let that comment bother him at all and Jack went on with his exciting story on how they killed the pig. "Ralph spoke again, hoarsely. He had not moved. 'You let the fire go out' " (70). After all of Jack explanations to why he took all the boys hunting, Ralph still repeatedly stayed on the subject of Jack letting the fire go out and rescue. At another meeting the boys had, Ralph was setting rules and lecturing everyone about how dirty everything's getting and how they need to follow the rules. "Now I say this and make it a rule, because I'm chief. We won't have a fire anywhere but on the mountain. Ever" (81). After being chief so long with so much responsibility that was put on him, it started to torture Ralph slowly. "Ralph dismissed Simon and returned to his personal hell" (104). There was a time when Ralph went hunting with the rest of the hunters. When Ralph had wounded a pig, he got really excited. "I hit him all right. The spear stuck in. I wo...