Ralph at first is very nervous about hunting and certainly
is not looking forward to actually trying to kill an animal. After he is left alone in
the path of the boar, he is forced to respond, throwing his spear, perhaps scaring the
boar but certainly not hurting it severely, but he is the center of attention and
absolutely loves it.
Ralph feels for a moment or two the
free adulation of the boys, the emotion he has longed for in so many situations in his
life, but it quickly passes as he tries to make logical decisions, but as it says in the
text, he will never be a good chess player.
So the
encounter gave him a brief taste of that feeling of power and influence, but it was also
to be his last real moment n the sun as his power waned from then on out as he never was
that into the hunting, etc., and the boys would soon be following
Jack.
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