2- Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another’s position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states. source-Wikipedia
1- Ralph undergoes significant emotional and psychological development in this chapter. Following his spontaneous participation in a pig hunt, he experiences the exhilarating mixture of emotions — “I hit him! The spear stuck in” — comparable to those that drive Jack and the other hunters and which underlie Jack’s credibility with the group. He, then, “sunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all.” Heretofore, Ralph had failed to recognize this instinct to hunt and kill in himself. Now that he has experienced these emotions, he has gained an appreciation that Jack’s perspectives and priorities are present, even if latent, within us all.
3-As other boys are busy eating and playing games, Ralph is still worried about getting rescued.While Ralph was near the ocean Simon tells him “youll be back where you came from” this quote is significant because Simon is foreshadowing the future of Ralph.
4-Nostalgia is defined as a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia.
5) The purpose of the nostalgic reflection is to show how the children are missing their good home, memories, and happy easy time, and how they still think about it. It also shows how much Ralph needed comfort. He was saying how absolute savagery has taken over him. It was mentioning about how much his life has changed since the plane crashed on the island.
6) The quote is referring to how the savagery and violence got to Ralph as well as becoming frightening to the others. Ralph has conflicting emotions. He is hunting for the first time and has hurt a boar. He feels the fright as he knows that hunting is a dangerous job. He also is hesitant to kill the boar, as it would be quite bloody and gruesome. However, he still feels pride that he was actually able to hit the boar in his first try.
7) Ralph seemed like an incorruptible leader before this, but he too found himself being taken over by savagery. Ralph getting caught up in the hunt and showing a primitive side of himself shows that Golding believes that all humans, even those that seem the most civilized, have a primitive desire in them. Golding will also show that he believes that the primitive side of a person is capable of overpowering the rational side as later on in the story, Ralph will participate in Simon’s murder.
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