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   luannw Teacher
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   Your question lacks some clarity, but I assume you are asking which of the boys is the first to miss the comforts of home.  In chapter 6, Ralph is asleep when Sam and Eric come to rouse him to tell him what they've seen.  While sleeping, Ralph dreams of home and feedings the ponies with sugar over the garden wall.  Ralph longs for home. He wants to be clean again and he mostly wants order in his life again.  When the twins wake Ralph it is to tell him that they saw the beast (who is actually the parachutist).  This is very bad news for Ralph because this is not the peaceful order that he longs for so much.  Ralph is somewhat reluctant to go on a hunt for the beast, but Jack is enthusiastic.  The news of the beast isn't such bad news to Jack who finds it exciting.  So, Ralph is the one who is the first to miss the comforts of home and order.

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   Posted by luannw on Thursday September 25, 2008 at 5:14 AM