Lord of the Flies Characters

(Click the character infographic to download.) You know that boy in your seventh grade class who was irritatingly good at everything? That's LOTF's Ralph for you. He's also the first lost boy we me...

(Click the character infographic to download.) For Jack, the island is like the best summer vacation ever. He gets to swear, play war games, hunt things, and paint his face—all without any grownu...

(Click the character infographic to download.) The first time we see Simon, he's fainting, and things go downhill from there. From passing out to throwing up to hallucinating to getting bloody nose...

(Click the character infographic to download.) In the Lord of the Flies, Piggy starts off as the group's outcast and ends up smashed to an untimely death by a large rock. But what happens along the...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Roger is totally that kid on the playground who used to torture ants with a magnifying glass. He's bad news going all the way back to when we first me...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Piggy tries, but even he can't manage to keep Sam and Eric straight: "Which is Eric-? You? No—you're Sam—" (1). For most of the novel, the boys ar...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Poor Percival. We first hear about him when we learn that the littluns are not so much taken care of as downright neglected by the older boys. Perciva...