LOTF #4

Chapter 5: The meeting 

Piggy's Journal

As Ralph announced that their was going to be a meeting, hundreds of thoughts bounced in my head. I knew he was going to talk about the fire, and the hunters, but something else too. I knew that something was troubling him, other then just the fire. We all sat in slince waiting for the blow of the conch. After what seemed like an hour, we hear the call. Simon was the first to stand up and start walking, then everyone else. I sat their for a little while longer though. I then made my way down the mountain, tripping every few steps. I finally got down to the beach, every last log was full with the biguns on the right, and the littleuns on the left. I didn't go into the circle. Showing that I did want to listen, but I wasn't so happy about the meeting. The meeting then started. Ralph started talking about a lot of topics, mostly about the rules that we have made. It was true what he said, we promised a lot of things that have been yet to be done. I then moved into the circle, holding out my hands for the conch, Ralph just shook his head no. he needed to talk the whole meeting. "Its ludicrous, what is happening to us." Ralph said sternly. I looked around the circle everyones eyes glued on Ralph, so far everyone listened no one said anything jeeringly, It was a real meeting. Then Ralph started discursive about the fear, fear of the beastie of other people, and even ourselves. This got the littleuns talking. Then a little boy stood up holding his hand out for the conch, which was then given to him. I felt a little hurt knowing that Ralph would rather give this little boy the conch then me. The boy started talk about the beastie. Again with this subject, we biguns know that their was no beastie on this island. Yet he did say something that shocked us all. That the creature came out of the water. All together we each turned our head to look at the deep blue water, I then noticed how dark it was. As if someone just turned off all the lights. Then Jack yells "If there is a beastie, me and my hunters will just find it and kill" Knowing that Jack broke the rules, Ralph then stood up yelling at Jack. Jack started yelling about how they were to many rules. Ralph yelled back about how he and his hunters never did anything for the camp. Jack then started getting tempestuously. He then stormed off with his hunters, and the rest of our group leaving just me Ralph and Simon. As they were leaving they started chanting something, and as they went further away it died down into just a murmur. "Ralph, blow the conch, they'll come back" I said as we were left standing alone. He then said that he didn't want to. If the call was to be ignored, then everything that we have worked for will be gone. He then told Simon and I something that shocked me most of all, that he wanted to give up his leadership role to Jack. "But then nothing will get done, they will all hunting and everything else will be left undone, we would be here for the rest of our lives"  I said. "We need guidances" said Simon. Ralph then said that we should all just go to sleep, but the echoes of the littleuns lamentation would keep me up thought the night.  

LOTF #3

Chapter 3-4: No one listens. 

Ralph's Journal 

Today Simon and I started the day by figuring out how to build the shelter on the beach. It started out great, everyone was helping, but little by little the amount of people helping dropped. And more people were in the ocean splashing around. Even the older kids were playing tag in the water.  In the end it was only Simon and I working, and we only got a couple huts done. Then I started to notice that the hunting group was down in the water, instead of looking for pigs or even helping us. Finally Jack came down covered in dirt. Simon and I hardly noticed him, we were to rapt in our work. I then turned to see there was no pig, nothing but dirt and mud. "Well, I am off to take a bath" susurration Jack as he saw our last hut fall down. "So you didn't caught anything again, so why don't you help Simon and I made the huts?" I said turning my attention towards Jack. "We need hunters for meat" said Jack. "Well, there are you hunters', I pointed to them in the water 'In the water, not hunting as they should be "Well I sent them off to bathe, so that I could hunt alone" yelled Jack. So I stated yelling at Jack telling him that we need to build the shelter, and all he kept saying was "We want meat, I need to kill" We stood there just starting at each other for a while. Until we both noticed that Simon was gone too. It now shows that everyone is to lazy to do anything here. 

Then next couple of days we got most of the hits up, and still nothing from the hunting group.  I spent the next day in the water relaxing to the blatant splashing of the littleuns. I was watching Maurice doing dives. I then notice swarthiness of skin, and think of how long we have been here. I think about it until Piggy comes up talking about how we should make some kind of sundial, I wasn't really paying attention. I was more focused on the small little thing on the horizon. As it grew bigger I realized that it was a ship. "What are you looking at Ralph" cried Piggy. "A ship, a ship" I yelled. Everyone turned towards the horizon. Finally Piggy saw the ship to. I looked up to the mountain to make sure the fire and smoke was going. "No smoke" I said. Everyone then looked up to the mountain. I dashed toward the mountain. Maurice and Simon followed as Piggy slowly treaded up the mountain. I made it up to the top seeing the dead fire and the ship gone too. Simon and Maurice slowly came up, shocked to see the fire was brunt out. "They left, " I susurration. Piggy was the last to come up gasping for breathe.  I stood there for a while starting at the horizon, wishing hopping that somehow I got up there faster. Suddenly I hear something down on the beach. A group of boys chanting something. As they cam closer I could hear that they were saying Kill the pig, cut her throat, spill her blood. They come walking up the mountain, every boy of the choir. Samneric were walking with something hanging off their shoulders. As they came up the island I could see it was a pig. Jack raced up the mountain to find us, chanting the most, out of all the boys. He came up to the top of the mountain, yelling about how he caught the pig. I stood there starting, furious at Jack. "You let the fire go out." I said. Jack and the boys didn't notice. The last of the boys were up on the top of the mountain, along with the dead pig. Samneric stood swinging the dead creature, different gouts of all colors dripped from the pig. "You let the fire go out" I yelled at Jack. "Oh sorry, we can just make a new one, where is Piggy and his specks. You see Ralph we need everyone to get the pig. Oh you should have seen it, blood everywhere," said Jack. "There was a ship, a ship I tell you, and if you haven't have you boys out hunting we could have been rescued." I yelled at Jack and the other boys of the choir. "you shouldn't have let it go out..." started Piggy "Oh you shut up fatty!" yelled Jack, smacking his glasses off his face. Simon picked them up, noticing that they were broken. "That was a dirty trick!" I yelled to Jack. He looked at me as I started him down. "I'm...…i'm" Jack started. "I'm sorry, bout the fire" "Light it back up again." I said as I trotted down the beach. 

We roasted the pig that night, although the boys were as cooked at the pig. Thoughts raced in my head. I was in deep thought until Jack handed me a piece of the meat. I wanted to resist, by the smell was to powerful. I grabbed it, eating fasted then anyone. Simon then Maurice was then handed a piece. I was to dirtracted by the thoughts in my head. I stood up and declared a meeting told them that when I blew the conch the meeting the will start. I walked slowly down the mountain, not looking back.