Cry of the Hunters

In chapter 12 in Lord of the Flies, the end of the book, readers finally get to experience the reality that these savages are actually children. Ralph breaks down at the end because he was tired of keeping it all inside. His anger, sadness and desperassion were eating him alive, but now he could finally let all his emotions out. He was not only crying for himself, but for Piggy and Simon, who didn't live to be rescused. Ralph was crying because he finally got what he had wanted the whole time, although he got lost along the way his morals were always intact. From the moment Ralph stepped foot on this dreadful island he became the strongest person among the group. Jack seemed to think he was, but one may believe that through all of his weaknesses Ralph stayed the toughest. He never truly let his guard down in front of the other boys, they never saw him cry and they never saw him give up. Down to the last moment before they arrived at the beach, even when the savages were chasing Ralph, hungry for his blood, he didn't show weakness. But, now he could. Ralph didn't have to be the adult anymore, he didn't have to be strong. When Goulding describes his breakdown as shown trough this passage; "The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island..."(202), the readers experience their own bit of sadness and weakness. Ralph's morals never really left him, even when he was off dreaming about his life at home his want for rescue was with him. Everyone has a moment of weakness at one time or another but their morality will always return and will never escape them completely. At the end of the book, all of the boys started to cry like Ralph, even the "savages".The boys were taken out of a trance when they reached the beach. As if the forest and anything in past the beach was their imagination and when they reached the sand and saw the sargeant they returned to reality.