Lord of the Flies

i need a descriptive paragraph on Ralph from chapter 1 with quotes

3 quotes, only from chapter one and just on ralph

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"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 heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil."

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Lord of the Flies/ Chapter 1

But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart.

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The Lord of the Flies/ Chapter 1