Lord of the Flies: Journal #8

Chapter 8 - Gift for the darkness

Finally - Jack

Finally, everyone is starting to see that I am a better leader than Ralph, finally everyone is getting some sense in there head.  I knew from the beginning that Ralph wasn't going to make a good chief, so he blew the conch and brought us all together, big deal.  I happen to be a prefect, which makes me have much better leadership skills.  Ralph doesn't do anything around here, all he does is boss us around and blow that stupid shell.  Now that I am the leader of most of the boys, I can do anything and I can tell them to do anything I want, we won't have to follow Ralph's stupid rules & taboo's.

Today was a very productive day, much more productive than it would have been if Ralph was in charge. Not only did I separate from Ralph, get my own followers, and take Ralph's fire but I also killed a very large pig, well some of the boys helped, but I did most of it.  Now that I'm in charge I see a very bright future ahead of us.  I think that I'm being very demure about this whole thing. 

Lord of the Flies: Journal #7

Chapter 7 - Shadows & Tall Trees

It's Getting Weirder & Weirder Every Day - Ralph

Well were still here, on this island... now were looking for a 'beastie', and I think were wasting our time, there can't really be a beastie on this island, the closest we have to a beastie on this island is Jack.  I mean were risking our lives on the other side of the island looking for something that the litluns probably just had a nightmare about or something.  We could be doing something more important right now like gathering food or building more huts, but no were here hunting the beastie.

No one respects me as chief anymore, except for Piggy, I wonder how Piggy's keeping up with the littluns right now.  I hope Simon's okay, we asked someone to volunteer to go out in the windy jungle to go tell Piggy that we were okay, and Simon volunteered right away, he was so impervious, I thought that that was very strange, but I guess he just wanted to help, it was very bravado and sagely of him, I mean it's a really long journey across the moors.

 

Lord of the Flies: Journal #6

Chapter 6 - Beast from Air

Is there a Beastie or Not?  - Piggy

Today was a bit confusing, I am not exactly sure what's going on, it all just happened so fast.  I all started early in the morning, I was just peacefully sleeping when all of a sudden I heard Sam n' Eric yelling and people shouting my name,  it was just interminable.  The twins said something about a beastie, that they actually saw one, they said it chased them, and they described it really scary, sort of like leviathan.  Even though i didn't want to be embroiled, I asked Ralph if he believed the twins, he just said that this was just like all of the other times that the litluns said they saw or heard a beastie, that they probably hust had a bad dream or something, he was very diffidently about it. 

Honestly I think that Jack and Ralph did believe Sam n' Eric, I mean why else would they go out looking for it with the hunters all mutinously.  Of course once again they made me stay with the litluns while they  went on their exiting beastie hunt.  It's not fair why can't I ever come along, Simon can take care of the litluns, they actually like him.

Lord of the Flies: Journal #5

Chapter 5 -  Beast from the Water

This is Just Getting to Crazy - Simon

Today Ralph called a meeting, but it wasn't like other times.  This time Ralph was really mad and strict, he was just really direct and to the point.  I think that he is still upset about that whole ship thing.  Ralph made new rules and really made the point today that he was our chief, he really took advantage of that today. Of course the whole time Jack was just looking at him jeeringly.  The meeting was actually going kind of okay, until someone mentioned it, the beastie.

This time Percival brought it up, and when he did everyone went crazy, everyone wanted to talk at the same time and it was ludicrous.  That was definitely a time where we needed adults.  When it came to the beastie we only got to the conclusion that since it's not on the island it's probably a water beastie.  Don't tell Jack but I actually believe in the beastie, I  mean why would the littluns make up something like that, and they seem like their really scared, at night I can hear  lamentaion. Even though Jack and Ralph act like they don't believe in the beastie, I'm sure they do, and I'm sure their just as scared as everyone else.

Lord of the Flies: Journal #4

Chapter 4 - Painted Faces & Long Hair

I Hate to Admit it.. But I Messed Up - by Jack

You better not tell anyone, If you do i will hurt you, but I really messed up today.  How could I be so obsessed with killing that pig  and  when I finally did kill it the fealing wasn't as good as I thought it would be, I mean I was really proud of myself at first, but then I realized that it wasn't worth it. I mean Ralph said he saw a ship, we could have been rescued, we could've gone back home, the pig was definatly not worth that.  

It's just that I felt like I had to kill that pig.  On that first day that we came on this island and I had a perfect shot to kill the pig, but when it came down to kill it I just could'nt do it.  I mean Iv'e never killed anything in my life ever, I mean I've killed flies but that dosen't count.  I just felt like I had to prove myself, I'm the leader of the hunters, and if I can't kill a pig then no one should be able to.

So much was going on today, everyone was so blant.  How was I supposed to know that today out of all days a ship would accually pass by today.  I mean really out of all the moments for a ship to pass by it had to pass by the day I took the twins to help me.  Even when the smoke did go out, the twins probobly woulden't be able to put it back on by themselves anyway.  I don't know why Ralph got so mad at me, his attitude was so belligarant and he looked at me so malevontly all day, it wasen't compleatly my fault, well... I guess it kind of was... 

Lord of the Flies: Journal #3

Chapter 3 - Huts on the Beach

Being Chief is NOT easy - Ralph

Why doesn't anyone understand that I am the leader, and I make decisions, and everyone is actually supposed to listen to me.  I mean they are the ones that voted me leader the least they can do is help build the huts.  Why won't anyone at least do that, I mean building the huts is something that benefits all of us.  All anyone does around here is play around, the littluns are the exception I mean they don't know what there doing and if they tried to help us they would probably mess things up. Thank god for Simon, he's the only one other than me who ever does anything around here.  In my opinion Simon should be the leader of this island, I mean he's a nice guy and the littluns actually like him.  It seems like in Simon's world there are no vicissitudes, he's just so calm and peace full.

Don't get me started with Jack, he is just so inscrutable and rapt.  What is wrong with that guy, why does he just have to kill a pig, why is that his number one priority, you can see it in his opaque eyes.  He's not doing it for us, you know for the food, he's doing it for himself, just to prove to everyone that he can kill it.  Maybe we actually need adults on this island maybe they could put every ones act together, and make us start acting like a team.  Honestly right now I have no idea what to do to make everyone listen to me, I've tried lots of different ways, but none of them have worked, yet.  I can't wait until my father comes to rescue us, I'm so sick of this island.

Lord of the Flies: Journal #2

Chapter 2 - Fire on the Mountain

Fire! - by Piggy

I hate this island! The little boy with the birthmark said that there were beasties here! Who would want to live on an island with beasties, Jack and Ralph don't believe the little boy, but then again, they dont beilive or litsen to anyone, even me! In fact no one litsens to me and everyone tels me to shut up, Jack and Ralph aren't the only ones that have good ideas. Today in fact Ralph had a terribble idea, once again he brought up that his dad would come and rescue us, and that is never going to happen because nobody knows were here! While he was taking about being rescued he mentioned building a fire, and everythng just got out of hand form there.

I tried to tell everyone that it was a bad idea, but they wouldn't litsen to me. As soon as Ralph mentioned "fire", every one went crazy in the forest and began to get wood. Everyone realized that they couldn't make a fire out of just wood so they pinched my specs to make a fire! It worked, but the fire got really out of hand and so did my ahsma. The fire is all Ralphs fault, Im really sick of Ralph, and I just met him today. I can't beilive he told everyone that my name was Piggy, I can't trust that guy.

Lord of the Flies: Journal #1

Chapter 1 - The Sound of the Shell

Day 1 - by Simon

It was just a normal day, or at least I thought it was, like every year we got on the plane to go back to school, then it happened, and I didn't realize what was going on and the next thing I knew our plane crashed in the middle of nowhere. We realized that there were no adults and naturally Jack took charge of the rest of the choir and me, he made us walk for miles and miles trying to find any sort of civilization.  All of this walking was very tiresome and it was very hot, it did not help at all that we were wearing those uncomfortable hambone frills.  

As we were about to reach the top of  mountain a strange sound filled the air, it was sort of like a trumpet, but different, as soon as we heard it Jack made us go all be way back down the mountain we had just climbed, and follow the strange sound that we knew nothing about, for all we knew it could have been some sort of monster or something. As got closer to the mysterious sound I have to admit I started to get kind of scared, but exited at the same time.  The mysterious noise turned out to be nothing but a boy with hair of tow blowing on some type of shell, there were other boys with him, and I recognized all of them from the plane, they must have survived the crash as well.  Jack told us to get in line while he talked to the boy who was blowing the horn, then all of a sudden I guess the heat really got to me because I fainted. 

When I woke up I heard everyone talking about having a chief, so all of a sudden out of nowhere I said "why don't we vote", I guess no one knew that I had woke up, because every one was surprised to hear my voice "yeah! lets vote", "yeah", "yeah", "yeah", was all you could hear everywhere.  So we had a vote, and Jack was not happy about it, because he knew he was not going to win, and he didn't, Ralph did, I think that he will, make a great chief.  As his first order in being chief Jack decided to have himself and two other people explore the island.  First he choose, Jack, then to my surprise and everyone else's he choose me!  

Once again we went up that huge mountain, but this time we actually stayed up there for a while.  We a huge rock, probably the biggest rock I have ever scene in my entire life, we all looked at each other "1, 2, 3" and we pushed the rock, it fell all the way to the bottom of the mountain, as we watched it roll down we were proud of our accomplishment.  On the mountain we discovered that we really were on an island because we were completely surrounded by water. It was getting late and we were starting to get hungry, we found a baby pig and Jack was about to kill it, but it ran away. Our first day on this island wasn't all that bad, I wonder what we will have to encounter in the future, I hope we won't have to stay here forever.