Important To Note That Not Only Did He See His Friends Die, But He Saw His Friends Die By The Hands Of

Important to note that not only did he see his friends die, but he saw his friends die by the hands of another kid he used to consider his friend and that he deeply cared about.

And not only the death and the contemplation of that loss of innocence but also the betrayal, for all the kids that were rooting for him but again, some that he considered friends. The most blatant example is Sam and Eric, and while it is true that they were forced to betray Ralph, in his eyes it was still betrayal.

Also I consider that not enough people talk about how he was in a hostile environment where he couldn't experience grief in a healthy way and that probably backfired later on in his life.

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Not enough people talk about the trauma Ralph would have as well due to what happens in the islands fr. Like Jack of course has some severe problems as well, but Ralph watches multiple friends die, kids his own age and younger be overtaken by the situation, committing extremely cruel actions that no child should watch.

Besides the fact he would not clearly grasp and comprehend the deepness of what he's been through until a later age.

He also experiences fear, abandonment and confusion in a really extreme way; watching how most of the kids end up leaving for Jacks team, knowing that Jack is acting in a way he does not approve off (yes I know it's not jacks fault and it's all commentary, but I'm talking about Ralph's perspective as a child and as a later on adult).

They all have that fear and confusion, simply following the one they think has a higher chance of helping them survive, but Ralph watches them all slowly leave for "the brute" and idk, just friendly reminder that Ralph is pretty fucked up in his later life, probably.

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I assume that most of them got their hair shaved post island, because it had reached a point where it's impossible to safe.

I have curly hair and when I was younger my hair was pretty long, and even with daily care it was very hard to manage and detangle. I once got tired and decided to shave it.

So I can't begin to imagine how hard, or downright impossible, it must have been for the kids , or rather the adults that took care of those kids when they came back, to get their hair taken care of after.

Unreasonably long ramble about the hair of the boys in LOTF

Thought about the boys at the end of chapter 12 and after and then for some reason started thinking about how nasty their hair must’ve been after spending multiple months on the island. It grew multiple inches throughout the book and they definitely never bothered to even attempt to finger comb it or smth, so they had like the most horribly tangled hair ever. And to top it off, the only way of washing themselves and their hair was with the sea water which is generally not good for taking care of your hair and can dry it out. But in the last few chapters I don’t think it really mentioned them going in the water that often anymore (correct me if I’m wrong I haven’t read it in a while) so I think instead of becoming dry their hair just became extremely greasy (ew). Also, they slept on like the ground so all the grass and dirt and bugs and stuff also got in there. And then more stuff also prob dropped into their hair from the trees. Their hair is so bad they’d have to spend multiple hours de-tangling it and washing it post-island. Anyways that’s enough rambling bye.

TLDR: The boys in LOTF probably ended up having the most dirty, greasy or dry, tangled, and possibly bug-infested hair by the end of the book. They’d suffer for multiple hours post-island taking care of it.

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