Blog #4

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 4-
Painted faces and long hair
"Rescue.... Nope!"
Perspective: Ralph

Dear, Diary

Adjusting to life on the island hasn't been very easy. Everything is different. Instead of having my parents to make dinner, put me to bed, make rules, and other things, I have to be impalpable and independent and do all this on my own. I think that is the hardest thing to adjust to on the island. All the boys have different jobs, which helps but after today I'm not sure how well this is going to work out.

The littleuns are cute but they don't do anything. All they do is eat sleep and play. They haven't helped out at all. I mean when we were building the huts they started to help but they all eventually just wondered off. Even the biguns wondered off after some time. I think that if the liluns really want to survive they are going to have to start helping out.

We don't all paint our faces just the hunters. They paint their faces so that they can blend in more with their surroundings while they hunt. Jack had said that he felt as if the pig could see
him. Painting their faces has seemed to work because they finally did catch a pig.

This foreshadows that the hunters should be able to catch more pigs, or other types of meat. I think this will be a good thing.

My face is never painted. If it was I would feel hidden with swarthiness. I think I might also feel more independent.

There was a ship that passed by the island today. But the hunters were all gone hunting at
the time and the fire died out. If some of the hunters had been at the fire like they were supposed to be, they would've kept the fire going and we could have been rescued. But because Jack blatantly took all the hunters to hunt, there wasn't anyone watching the fire, and it burned out. And as I walked up to the fire that was no longer burning it looked malevolently at me as i realized there was no hope.

The fire was allowed to go out because Jacks belligerence caused him to need all the hunters to surround the pig. He wanted to make sure he caught the pig. I don't think that Jack thought over the situation. He was the one who wanted his hunters to be responsible for the fire and the hunting so he should have been able to keep the fire going and fulfill his responsibilities.

To reassert my chieftainship I called an assembly. This gives me the power again because no one else can blow the conch. I am the one who brought everyone together with the conch and I called the boys together again for an assembly. I need to make sure that Jack knows who's in charge.

- Sincerely, Ralph

Post #3

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 3 -
Huts on the beach
"Hunting is way more important!!!"
Perspective: Jack

Dear Diary,

I don't get Ralph! He is all about shelter. It doesn't matter. Hunting is more important. If we don't get food then we will die. I think that hunting is way more important for the Lil ones then shelter. Although I do think we need shelter, we absolutely need food or we will all die. So I
guess I kind of think that shelter is important but I also feel that food is a bigger concern right now. After fighting with Ralph I feel a little contrite. I could have tryed to see his point a little better.

The boys all have a job. Me and my choir are the hunters. When we were hunting today everyone else was supposed to be building shelters. But when I got back there were only two shelters built and only Ralph and Simon were working on them. Ralph was very rapt in making the shelter. None of the boys really did there job except for me, Ralph, and Simon. These jobs weren't carried out because all the other boys decided to go do other things like, bathing, eating, playing, or swimming.

I feel the most important task for survival is to hunt. We need to make sure that we have food. We also really need meat for protein. We have fruit, but we will soon get tired of that and out bodies will need calcium, protein, and other vitamins and minerals. I do think we need shelter but that isn't as important as food. I have a great compulsion for hunting.

Simon is one of the choir boys. He is kind and helpful. But also very annoying. Like that one time when he stood up for Piggy. He is a very small boy and hes skinny too. He has black hair, he is tan, he has a pointed chin, and his eyes are bright. He also isn't wearing anything except for shorts. His feet are bare and so is his back. He is getting pink from the sun. But most of us are.

If we don't get rescued soon I'm sure that we will most likely die. We might even turn against each other. I wouldn't be very surprised if we did. Ralph and I definitely have our disagreements.

Recently Ralph and I haven't been getting along very well. Ralph started yelling at me for not getting any meat, but being out in the forest all day long. I also sent the rest of my hunters back to the beach which must have also upset him. I don't get it though I will get meat I know I will! He also thinks that since I didn't catch anything that I should have been back with them working on the huts. But I almost caught something and I am very impulsed to go hunt. The hunting was fun as I walked around the forest and saw all the tendrils wrapped around various plants. The sight of the traces. The inscrutible forest all around me.

Sincerely, Jack

Post #2

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 2 -
Fire on the mountain
"Rules rules rules"
Perspective: Simon

Dear diary,

I somewhat like the island were on, it is big. It has lots of fruit and other things too. But I would rather be at home with my mommy and daddy. A good thing is that we have established some order. Instead of all us boys running around like errant little kids we have rules.

There is a so called beastie on this island. Or that is what the little boy with the mark on his face thought. The beastie is supposedly a snake. I'm not sure if i believe that there really is a beastie or not. Right now I think we (the boys) have better things to worry about then beasties.

The beastie kind of makes me scared. I'm not sure if there really is a beastie as I said before. But why would a little boy make this up. Maybe there is a snake, beastie thing here in the forest. Maybe I should be worried.

I like the plan of using smoke from a fire to signal that we are on this island. I think that this gives us a good chance of being rescued soon.

To start a fire we used Piggy's specks. Ralph pinched Piggys specks then made a hot ray of sun shine onto the wood. Jack had said that piggy didn't do anything to help start the fire but we would never have gotten the fire started that quickly if Piggy hadn't been there. With out Piggy's specks starting a fire could have taken all day. I also stood up for Piggy and told Jack that it was Piggy's glasses who got the fire started. The fire didn't make much smoke, but after a bit the fire started getting out of control. The fire started burning up part of the forest!

I am not quite sure what happened to the little boy with the mark on his face. This little boy whom had to be induced to hold the conch to speak. I feel bad, I think he must have died. I'm guessing he went down into the forest before the fire had started to get out of control and when the fire did get out of control he was stuck. Another possibility is that he could have gotten eaten by the beastie. That is what some of the younger boys are thinking.

I am a lot different from the other boys. I am not mean like Jack, yet I am not a wimp like Piggy. I am in the middle. I faint a lot too. Which isn't a very good thing. I stood up for piggy too. I stood up to Jack! the leader of our choir, and now the hunters. He is like second in command next to Ralph. He is very officious but just because I think he wants his oppinion to be heard. I think I could be a good second in command just because I am nicer to people then Jack. I think I am full of more ebullience then the others also.

As I go to bed each night, I wonder when and if we will ever be rescued. I dont want anything to happen to me. I just want to get home and be safe. I am a little afraid of what is on this island. But I can only hope that we will survive.
Sincerely, Simon

Post #1

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 1 - The Sound of the Shell
“Where am I? Where are the grownups!?”
Perspective: Piggy

Dear Diary,
I am on an island. Or that’s what the other bays and I think this is. It’s got lots of dark forest type are. There is also a lagoon. There looks to be a coral reef out in the sea but in not sure. There is a long indent in the trees where the plane crashed. It is in the forest though. There are many intricacies on the island. I am on this island because of a plane crash. While I was flying there were some problems and we crashed on this island.

The first boy I met was Ralph. He didn’t seem very interested in anything about me at first. But he has become nicer to me. When I told him my nick name was Piggy he laughed. I told him I didn’t want anyone to call me that but he has already told all the boys on the island. At least he somewhat said sorry. There is also another person I met. His name is Jack. I don’t really like Jack, and I don’t think Jack likes me much either. I think he is full of enormity. He called me fatty. The choir has togs. They looked fancy each in a uniform. Jack is the leader of the choir.

I am worried because I think that all the adults have died. They must have died in the plane crash. Ralph is excited about this, but I am kind of worried.

While Ralph and I were at a small beach pool we found a conch shell. We picked it up. I knew that this conch could make noise if you blew into it. I told Ralph about the shell, I also told him why I couldn’t blow into the shell because of my asthma. We found a platform shortly after that, which was made of palm fronds. Where we got there Ralph started to blow on the conch. A sound came out of the conch, it was very loud. We wanted to call the other boys that were alive to the platform so that we could have a meeting about what was going on. The conch because of the loud sound that called all the boys made Ralph seem superior. The conch put a kind of glamour over the boys that were called by it. I think the conch Is a very powerful tool that can call everyone together.

The choir has a job. This new job is hunting. I’m not quite sure how I feel about the boys in the choir right now. But I do know that I don’t like Jack very much who is the choir’s leader.

I think I would be a good leader. I was with Ralph when he found the conch. I was also the one who found out everyone’s names. I am also very observant. But I guess if it couldn’t be me as leader I would like for it to be Ralph because he isn’t as mean as Jack.

- Piggy