In Lord of the Flies, the first character we meet is Ralph. He's the most handsome one there and has the best stature.
"The boy with fair hair... He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and height went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes..." [Golding-1; 10]
Then we meet Jack, Jack is the only one who is of the same stature as Ralph but with some differences.
"Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without stillness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to, to anger." [Golding-20]
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