LOTF #8

Chapter 11 and 12-The glasses

Piggy's Journal 

I awoke the next morning unable to see if it was night or day. I found my way out of my hut to a blurry beach. I felt across the sand to finally find the log by the bathing pool, and Ralph. I couldn't see without my glasses, but I always could make out the figure of Ralph. Next to him were Samneric, for what I could hear, they were trying to make a fire, I could also hear that it wasn't going so well. Ralph then sat down next to me, cursing about the fire. "Maybe you should call a meeting?" I suggested. "For only us?"I nodded my head in agreement. I have heard the sound of the shell many different times before, yet today it sounded different. It didn't as much sound different it just felt different. Soon Samneric come to the logs, so did a few littluns. Ralph stood up and announced that today we will be going over to Jack's tribe to get my specs back, Ralph then stands up leading me a hand. I grab the conch next to him holding tightly onto my talisman while I follow Eric into the forest.  When we finally got too Castle Rock, we were stopped by a guard, yet I could tell that it was just Maurice. I then head a nice coming from the forest, an all to familiar noise. " Kill the beast, cut her throat, spill her blood." Suddenly it stopped. "Leave my camp, go back to where you came from," I knew that voice, Jack. "Return Piggy's specs," yelled Ralph  Eric lead me down to a log, where then I heard more screams and threats. The conch was still in my head, when I finally noticed I was shaking. I could hear Ralph and Jack truculently fighting. I finally yelled up to Ralph. I stood up, and let everyone see the conch. "You see what has happened," I yelled at everyone   "Do you see what has happen to us, we have become savages, " I stopped to catch my breathe. "Ralph is trying to keep us civilized, while all Jack wants to do is hunt. Which would you rather have rules and recuse or hunting and madness," I stopped to hear a noise coming from behind me, I turned my head and suddenly blackness. 

I watched as Ralph ran through the forest, up tot he mountain. I heard him talking out loud to himself cessation. "What has happen, what have we become?" he asked himself. He went to up and saw the pigs head on a stick. Something I have never seen before. Ralph then knocks the skull down taking the stick as a spear. I wondered what he would do this thing. They were so many of them, and only 1 of him. It was night time when he got back to Castle Rock. I saw the Samneric were now the guards. Ralph then started talking to them, about what was going to happen next. I heard Samneric tell Ralph that they were going to hunt him, and he needed to go hind somewhere. They said that they were going to line up in a cordon so that they would find Ralph. Finally Ralph hid, I heard him say that he was going to hide in a thicket next to the rock.  

Next morning Ralph woke and hid himself in the thicket. It was a while before Jack and his hunters were on the move. I then saw Roger tie up Samneric, hitting and beating them with spears. They were asking him where Ralph was, over and over again Eric yelled "We don't know" Until finally Sam screamed "In the thicket," Roger stopped beating them. "Are you sure," asked Jack. Samneric nodded their heads. Jack then whispered something to Roger, as he dashed down to their camp site. Along came the huge group of people all carrying spears. Some of the boys then tied to get into the thicket, but it was to thick. Then Jack came down with some fire, bent down and slowly and calmly threw it into the thicket. The suddenly Ralph jumped up and ran. Ran threw the forest, faster then I have ever seen before. The hunters ran too, yelling ululation to each other. Ralph then stood still thinking of something to do. He looked up at the trees, and the different brush. Suddenly the ululations grew closer to him and so did the smell of smoke. Jack had set the forest on fire and they were right behind him, throwing spears at him. He then ran to the beach, to see a Navy officer, he then asked a few questions to Ralph. The rest of the hunters showed up on the beach to see the officer too. I felt a pit in my gut as I saw this. If only I thought, if only I didn't make Ralph and Samneric go, I would be on that ship, going home.