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