Lord of the Flies #8

Journal entry #8

Gift for the Darkness

 

Perspective: Piggy

 

Bye Bye!!!!

 

         I can’t believe that Jack and Ralph both think that there is a stupid beast up there but I know that there isn’t such thing. I think that the ‘Beast’ is just a rock or something that is in the shape of a beast. It is silly because Ralph thinks he saw its teeth and big black eyes. Then Ralph finally does it he says that all Jack in his hunters are just boys with sticks, and that blows Jack over and was the opposite modest at the time. He calls his own meeting, and the conch was not blown correctly so they new Ralph wasn’t calling that meeting. Then jack says Ralph is turning into Piggy, and what is wrong with being me? 

            Jack has really been getting on Ralph’s nerves and Ralph has been getting on Jacks nerves. Then Jack takes another vote to see who would be a good chief, I still think Ralph is a great chief and I hate Jack. No body raised their hands and Jack ran off and said he would start his own group, only for hunting, nothing else. He ran off like a coward, or a prefect would. I had a feeling going where ever he went was a taboo not to got there for me.

            All day I have been thinking about this and now I get to tell it to Ralph. I was thinking that if we built a fire down here we wouldn’t have to go up to the mountain. Ralph though it was a great idea, and we started building it.

            Many of the older boys and even some of the little boys left to go join Jacks group I am glad that Jack finally left us now I am not afraid to speak, what I think. Ralph was feeling a little down that some of the boys left him for the demoniac Jack who could only think about killing then paunching a pig. Samneric and I went to go gather some fruit and we drought it back to have a feast to make Ralph feel better. I still have no idea what Jack is going to do now and I wonder how we are all going to survive on this island.

            

Lord of the Flies

Journal Entry #7

Shadows and Tall Trees

Perspective: Simon

Ill Go!!!!

            Were probably two of the most stupid words I have ever said in my life. It all started when we were searching for the silly beast. There isn’t a beast at all, it was dark they probably just saw a bush and it looked like a beast. Since the beast wasn’t in the part of the island nobody has been before, we decided to go up to the top of the mountain.

            I was still worrying about Piggy though. All of the littleuns and only him, I can picture them all running around and Piggy chasing them. He wouldn’t be there all by him self if it weren’t for Jack. He is so mean to everyone, and he only cares about himself. I think we should all be nice to each other because we only have one life and I don’t want mine to end on this island.

            Then Ralph mentioned that he wants to get home and I know that since Ralph is a good leader and a good person he will get back where he came from, but I am not quite to sure about Jack. He doesn’t respect Piggy for who he is and he doesn’t like Ralph because he wants to be leader. He doesn’t like me either because he thinks I am too nice, but really what is wrong with being nice?

            All of a sudden I hear this really weird noise and it is a boar heading our way at full speed.  It runs right by Jack and he tries to grab its tusks but the boar cuts him and gets away. After words they are all playing around and Roger ends up in the middle of the circle and they are poking him and hurting him till he falls on the floor and they realize that they are hurting him.

            We get to the mountain and all of realize it is starting to get late and what are they going to tell Piggy? They want to go on but they want to tell Piggy that they are coming after dark. So this is when I say ill go and I run right in to the forest. They were very dun when I said that but I didn’t want to go any further. I think I was very bravado for doing this all by my self and it is starting to get dark. When I am starting to walk I can taste the brine on my upper lip from the sweat.

            I wish right then I was playing rugger, or on a moor playing with my brother, I didn’t want to be here. Now I really have no idea which way is back home  and I don’t even know if I will make it back to tell Piggy.

Lord of the Flies

Journal entry #6

Beast from Air

 

Perspective: Jack

 

The Beast

 

            I wake up and all of a sudden I see Sam and Eric over me flailing saying meeting meeting, and then they ran out of the hut. So I don’t know what this is about. Oh maybe Ralph has another stupid rule so he can be are mom. But there aren’t any parents here and Ralph needs to learn that everyone is for them selves. When I get out of the hut I go to the meeting point and sit to hear about what happened. It seems that the beast attacked Sam and Eric, but I don’t believe it I mean who would? It may of been a guano of birds flying over that looked like a beast.

            I am starting to get real mad at Ralph because he is a sissy and doesn’t want to hunt, so I decide that I should go with some people and go kill ‘The Beast.’ I was being very mutinously with him. Then stupid little Ralph had to mention who would watch the little ones so we were embroiled, but I really don’t care about them nobody has been taking care of them before so who should take care of them now. Since Piggy, is a baby he will watch the little ones while Ralph, the big ones and I will go and hunt the beast.

            Since I have been on this whole island I decide that we should go on the part that I haven’t been to yet. I look up and see a rock shaped like a castle and thinks this is where the beast may live. Ralph thinks it is too dangerous for us so he decides he should go. I couldn’t let him do that because if he kills the beast, he will get all of the glory and I will mean nothing any more,  so that is why I decided to follow him. The boys started playing with the rock  and part of it fell. Ralph was waxy with everyone that we should go look on the other side of the mountain and I really wonder if there really is a beast.   

Lord of the Flies

Journal entry #5

Beast from Water

 

Perspective: Ralph

 

Meeting!

 

I decided to call a meeting in the dark. I couldn’t take it any more everybody was going crazy and I couldn’t even take control over anything. I am so mad at Jack for not helping with anything, all he can think about I killing a stupid pig! During this meeting I wanted complete silence from everyone and only I could have the conch. I told them that they couldn’t just go to the bathroom wherever they wanted they had to go behind the rocks near the water. Also that fire has to stay at the top of the mountain no little fires every were if you want to cook the pig, great, take it up to the top of the mountain and cook it. Piggy also wanted the conch so diffidently he reached but I just shook my head no.

Piggy showed me that I should think before I speak and I really started doing that, it helped, me. It also really felt like the meeting effigy that I was trying to get the boys to understand. Then when I am finished a little boy Phil starts talking about a beast, something moving in the forest. I think that is totally ludicrous, and Simon said that he was going some were. The boys laughed jeeringly, at the boy’s mistake. At the humiliation the boy starts to lamentation, but stopped when Percival says something about the beast to live in the sea, a squid, he says.

Piggy discursive about how there is no such thing and how there aren’t any monsters. Then Simon says something really stupid he said, maybe the monsters are us. I really don’t understand what he means by that but I think he may be right. Then stupid Jack says if there is a beast we will kill it. All of the boys except for Piggy and Simon go after him and then I am left with just the quiet and don’t know what to do.   

Lord of the Flies

Journal entry #4

Painted Faces and Long Hair

 

Perspective: Piggy

 

I Was Just Trying to Fit In

 

         I can’t believe what is going on. Two older boys, Roger and Maurice knocked over, Percival, Johnny, and Henrys sand castles malevolently. Percival was crying very blatant, and it only got worse when Johnny copied the older boys behavior. I was just watching this from a distance and could still the shrieks Percival was making when he was crying. 

Great here comes Jack, all jack does is say I really want to kill a pig its all I want to do. That annoys me so much because he doesn’t help with anything all he does if he doesn’t kill a pig is sit there with belligerence. Ever since Jack has been here is skin is really starting to show the swarthiness. What on earth is on his face!! Paint was smeared all over Jacks face he looked so silly but yet he looked so successful.

I was in the bathing pool with Ralph when I came up with the idea of a sundial. I thought of it last knight and when I mentioned it to Ralph he smiled, and that was all I needed. All of a sudden Ralph gets out of the water like there is a ship or some thing then he turns back and looks at the fire and just from that I could tell he was going to be angry because the fire has been out for hours. He runs to where in the distance words being chanted but I am too far away to hear the words. I get out of the water and start to run where Ralph went. As you can tell I don’t run very fast because I missed a whole part of what happened.

When I got there, I had to lean on a rock and catch my breath, Ralph was all scratched up and gouts of blood were coming from him. Jack came up to me and slapped me in the face and my specs flew off my head. “MY SPECS!” I shouted. But I couldn’t see anything. Simon found them and gave them beck to me.

Ralph was very mad at Jack for letting the fire out. He made a new fire but this one was for the pig to be roasted not for a fire signal. Jack didn’t give me a piece of meat; he is so mean I hate him. Simon nicely gave me his piece and Jack gave Simon another piece. When everyone was quiet Ralph announced in a very mad voice “I am calling an assembly I don’t care that its dark meet me there in five minutes.” Right after he said that it made me very scared. 

Lord of the Flies

Journal entry #3

Huts of the Beach

 

Perspective: Simon

 

Trapped!

 

            Useless again. Jack just came back with nothing in his hand, except for his spear. Now he is probably going to make up some stupid excuse, that he couldn’t find any pigs or something like that. I am hungry and kind of tired of eating fruit all day I want some meat. You know what is even worse, all of the boys on the island said they would help build shelters but nobody is, that makes me really mad when I am inscrutable to all of the other boys. All of their huts look like messed up tendrils.

            Ralph starts to get really mad Jack and the other hunters because they cant kill or find any pigs. I think that Jack is to scared to kill a pig for food. I mean I would to but I wouldn’t say I would but I wont like Jack did. Ralph is having a lot of vicissitudes controlling the other boys, but nobody could unless they were adults. When it comes down to it I really am contrite for Ralph because he can’t control them. After a little while of listening to Ralph and Jack talking I decide I should sneak to my secret place, in the forest, while Ralph and Jack are looking at the other boys. I run to the path that leads to the opaque where my hide out is. First I figure it would be good if I got brought some food with me first. When I was their I saw some little ones trying to reach the fruit on the tall trees so I decide to help, I don’t know why but I like helping litter kids, and they look up to me like a roll model. When I was done helping them I grabbed all of the fruit that my arms could carry and brought them over to my small hut. I built it because it is quit there and I can think and think, about everything, I would ever need to think about.

 

Lord of the Flies

Journal Entry #2

Fire on the Mountain

 

Perspective: Jack

 

Fire!!!!

         Today I am determined to try and take over and be leader. We got grouped up in a meeting after a hard knight of sleep. Ralph and I were talking about our discoveries on the island and how some of the choir and I are going to be the hunters and also that we found pigs on the island, so that is what we are going to eat. Also Ralph made this rule that you can only talk when you have the conch and nobody can interrupt except him. That isn’t fair, I am a leader to I want to talk when I am not holding that stupid conch.

            Then some of the little boys were pushing this little boy to go forward to say something. When he did he mentioned that he saw a Biestie. Stupid little kid it was just his dream he doesn’t even know the difference. If I were the leader I would tell the little boy to shut up and sit down!!!! After that nonsense was over Ralph said, “We may be on this island for a while, so I think we should build a fire,”

Directly after he says the word fire I jump up and say, “Yes a fire in the forest lets go. I lead the pack of boys to the forest I was capering, all the way up to the forest. We all started taking old rotten wood and would toss it in to a big pile. Once the wood was a very large pile we realized that there was nothing to light it with. I saw Piggy’s glasses and remembered the thing I did to some ants at school. I held up the glasses to the light and it hit the ants and they died. I pinched Piggy’s glasses away from him and did the same thing I did at school. It was a small flame at first but it grew bigger and bigger by the second. I had to induce the other boys to get away from the fire.

“Were is the kid with the scar on his face!!!!” Piggy yelled from a distance. The boys were to officious to listen to Piggy.

I did really understand what he said so I just yelled back, “Shut Up Fatty!!!!”  But after I said that I did look around for the boy who thought he saw a Biestie. I bet he was getting more wood when he got trapped inside the fire and he is martyred now. All of the boys including me were silent at the thought of burning up in the fire. We were the opposite of errant boys at the time. I didn’t know what was going to happen next. 

Lord of the Flies

Journal entry #1

The Sound of the Shell

 

Perspective: Ralph

 

SHUT UP!!!!

 

Do you know what is worse than getting in a plain crash on to an island that you know nothing about, ill tell you. Getting in a plain crash on to an island that you know nothing about and this kid wont stop blabbering on and on about his anti, his glasses and his asthma. I can’t believe I am stuck here!!!! This is horrible I don’t know anything right now, I don’t know if any of the other 30 or so kids on the plain survived, and how long piggy is going to keep talking. But then I stopped and realized one good thing; there are no adults here, at all. I run on to the sand to take in all of what is happening. Now I am in a handstand ready to explore what is on this island. Whoa, I ran to a big thing of water it kind of looked like a pool. Oh my gash what is this, I stuck my foot in the water and it was hot. I had to jump in and after I did it felt good on my bruises from the plain crash.

 “What is that over there.”  Piggy said pointing to the shore of the pool that I was in. I swam in to go see what he was talking about. I picked it up to see what it was. “Oh I know what that is one of my anti’s friends had one of those on his wall, he called it... a conch shell!” Piggy said very proud of his knowledge. I still had no idea what he was talking about but I still kept listening. “You see this whole here. You blow in it and it makes this loud noise.” Piggy said, he took the conch shell and was about to blow but then he stopped. “But my anti did say that it wouldn’t be good for my asthma.” Piggy said sadly lowering the conch from his mouth. Oh geez not the asthma thing again, I thought to my self.  I took the conch took a deep breath and blew as hard as I could, it was scary at first, the big noise but then I got used to it. When I finally stopped there were boys of all ages sitting right in front of me like I was their leader, it was so cool.

Then this group of boys all dressed in black came to where I was standing, and asked me where the ship was. I didn’t know what he was talking about a ship? His name was Jack and he wanted to know who was going to save them. “Nobody, I wanted to call a meeting and decide how we are going to survive until we get saved.” I said proudly. The boys in black all sat down in the bunch.

“I think we should have a captain or a leader.” This boy Simon said. “I think Ralph should be the leader.” He said

“But I want to be the leader too, so we will take a vote.” Jack said, the leader of the group the boys in black, or the marching band. “Who votes for me?” Jack said proudly, and only the boys in black raised their hands.

“And who votes for me.” I said very proud and determined I was going to win. Every boy in the bunch raised their hands for me I was so happy. Jack was sad and pouted on a rock to the side of the bunch. I choose 2 others Jack and Simon to come along with me and explore the island more. We got up to this fantastic view of the whole island and from there I couldn’t see ant people or smoke or any ships. I was really wondering how all of us boys are going to survive here.