Lord of the Flies: Journal #7

Chapter: Shadows and Tall Trees

Perspective: Piggy

Waiting
I've been so worried for the past day. This morning, all the boys here (except for the little ones and myself) went off to hunt for that bravado beast. They sagely left me here (We all knew that I would not be a very big help to them) and tried to see if they could find, and perhaps hunt this beast that everyone is so imperviously afraid of. They left pretty early this morning, and I was sure that they'd be back by now. It's twilight now, and I'm worried that something happened to them. It's pretty dun around here, what with all the fun people gone.
I also have to look after all these little ones. They're sort of going crazy now that all the bullies that were picking on them are gone for the day. All of them are happy and they're really having a fun time. Most of them are on the beach playing in the sand, being windy and having fun. Some of them get into little spats, but I usually try to get those sorted out.
When no one's fighting, I like to wade in the pools by the ocean, or play in the soft sand. It feels so good between my toes, and I always make little sand castles and attach something to make it more intricate.
Now that it's getting dark, I'm getting a little more worried about what's going on on the mountain where the rest of the boys are. The sun is getting lower and lower in the sky, and it's getting hard to see things now. I wonder if they're going to stay and camp somewhere overnight. I just hope that they didn't get eaten or hurt or killed. That would be horrible- I would be the only person that could actually do anything, and even then, I'm not too capable. I don't think any of us would survive for very long if I were in charge. I just hope the rest of the boys get back...

Lord of the Flies: Journal #6

Chapter: The Beast from Air

Perspective: Simon

The 'Beastie'

Turned out, I was right. The so-called beastie everyone is interminable afraid of is really just all the evil that's in all of us. We all get waxy, and start flailing our minds everywhere and thinking about the impossible- but the evil, that's what is scaring everyone. Both Jack and Ralph have been installing all this fear in all the boys on this island. They're making it seem like Leviathan was here on the island and was going to painfully kill us all. That's exactly what Jack wants us to think. He wants us to go let him try to kill this thing and make him the big, amazing, smart, strong one who got to stand on the rocks with the guano (I don't know why he would want to...), and not Ralph.
Anyway, last night, the twins, Sam and Eric, they were supposed to be watching the fire, but they unfortunately fell asleep. When they woke, they thought that they saw the beastie. They said that they saw the dreaded monster in the shadows of the forest. They ran back as fast as they could (they reported that the beastie was chasing them in the forest, and that they barely made it to the shelters) and woke up Ralph to tell him what they saw. Ralph was startled, and he reacted quickly by calling a meeting to discuss the matter.
At the meeting, Jack sort of decided himself that he was going to lead the hunt for the beastie, and that Piggy and the little ones should stay behind. I felt bad for Piggy, being so overweight on a stranded island must make it hard for him to do the everyday things that we all do with ease, like climb the trees to get fruit, and running as fast as we do through the forest, when he can only go about half the speed we can. Jack emphasized his condition quite well at the meeting. Jack, using a wooden spear, set out with Ralph and all us other boys (except Piggy and the little ones) and we went on the hunt for the beastie.
After a while of walking, we got to a part of the island that no one had ever explored before, and Ralph made the decision that he would go alone. Jack ended up going with him ('m not sure how that worked out) and they went together to hunt the beastie.
While they were gone, some of the boys thought that it would be fun to build a fort, and when Ralph and Jack got back, Ralph got really mad. It must be hard for him to control so many crazy, wild boys...

Lord of the Flies: Journal #5

Chapter: Beast from Water

Perspective: Jack

The Night Meeting

Ralph called a meeting tonight. He was so upset with everything that was going on, what with the 'beastie', and the huts not being built, and us hunters always hunting and not tending to the fire. He blew the conch, and once everyone was gathered, he started. Using the right decorum, he started to give an effigy of what was going on on the island presently. He started discursive interminably about all these new and old rules that were mandatory to be followed, it was completely ludicrous. Tempestuously, some of the boys were not paying any attention, but Ralph didn't notice. The rules included that we were not to be taken short anywhere but rocks on the beach, where it would be washed away with the tide.
Ralph was overreacting to all of the mayhem. He was acting like one ship that we lost was going to kill us all! Absolutely absurd. He was totally unaware that the Pacific Ocean was a very common place for large ships to be. I was surprised at his immediate and overbearingly annoying reaction.
Then, at the meeting, he brought up the 'beastie'. That's when things got a little wild. No, it got really wild. By then, the sun had completely set, so it was very dark, and we could really only hear each other, but not know what they were doing. All the little ones at the meeting got real spooked and they were all scared whenever someone said 'beastie'. Someone must have thought the beastie was a ghost, and everyone was afraid that the ghost would come get them or something. Totally and completely insane and crazy and stupid. These people were all afraid of NOTHING! I said it a million times, that I'd searched the island, high and low, for any kind of food or anything else.
Then Percival had to speak up. He just had to say that the stupid beastie came out of the water. I don't think that anyone's going in the water any time soon...

Lord of the Flies: Journal #4

Chapter: Painted Faces and Long Hair

Perspective: Ralph

He's So Selfish

I'm going crazy. Jack is insane. I can't believe that he actually thinks that he can just ignore his responsibilities and so whatever he wants! The day of the great fire, I put Jack in charge of keeping the signal fire running smoothly. But today, he's hit an all-time low.
This morning, all of us on the beach saw a ship out in the ocean. I looked up to the mountain and didn't see any smoke at all. I sprinted up there as fast as I could- practically getting whipped by all the creepers- and when I got to the fire, well, I didn't because there was no fire there to get to. I just stared at the wood pile, deciding whether I should run back to the beach and get Piggy's glasses to restart the fire, or if I should just try to improvise and make the fire out of something else. Then Jack came. I was so belligerent, and blatant. I started screaming at Jack, and he really couldn't find anything that was wrong with him. That angered me on another level as well. The whole time I was staring malevolently at him, as he glowered back. He was convinced that because he had an impalpable pig with gouts flowing out of it, that it was okay that he had ruined the one chance that we'd had of being rescued since we crashed here almost a week ago.
The pig, which was a very nice catch, was hearty and fat. We had to use Piggy's specs to get it started. Once we actually had the pig cooking, there was a little bickering between Piggy and Jack. Jack had just stolen Piggy's specs to start the fire, and he wasn't too happy about that. Piggy sort of had a momentary lapse of not being courageous. He stood up for himself, and got Jack to give him his specs back.
Jack gave me some of the pig. It was fantastic. It tasted so good compared to all the fruit and stuff that we've been eating for the past five days. I was actually happy that they had caught the pig. Maybe the being on this island isn't as bad as I thought.