The character I admire the most in the story is Ralph because he is very gentle, kind, caring, wicked, good, loving, helpful, and thoughtful. He is a 12 year old English boy who was elected leader of a bunch of boys stuck on a maroon island. He tried to maintain peace and order. Ralph also tries to establish a mock–democratic government for the group in order to be rescued. He was the only boy in novel who was not a hunter. His chief goals ended up in the dust, as most of the boys went off to join Jacks’ “tribe”. At the end of the novel, Ralph began to weep on the beach before his grown–up rescuers. Ralph was a brave, determined “soldier”, for he tried everything he could to be a good leader, but ended up failing instead. Ralph is the protagonist or main character in the novel, while Jack is the antagonist or rival. This is why I would choose Ralph as the character I admire the most because he was determined and tried his best to keep everything from falling apart.