| Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| Lord of The Flies by William Golding #5 |
Chapter 5 - Beast From Water
Every thing's Getting Outta Control by Simon
Ralph called a meeting today. At night. We haven't had a meeting at night yet. The meeting filled up pretty quickly, and Ralph was pretty serious about it. The assembly of boys gave discursive noises and such. But Ralph was starting to get more strict. I get his position though. He's been trying to take care of everyone and make sure that we will survive. Ralph tried to explain to everyone that we need decorum. Like, we shouldn't urinate at random places and such. Ralph also made a rule that we can only have one fire-- at the mountain. I guess it's kinda weird, but I also think that he's just trying to decide what's for the best of us.
While Ralph was talking, Jack decided to interrupt and just yapped that we needed to suck it up and just deal with it. Jack thought that the whole thing was ludicrous. He then brought up the beastie to the conversation. Piggy tried to tell his thoughts but somehow nobody really listens to him.. Jack always tempestously messes with Piggy. Oddly, I stood up and grabbed the conch and started talking about my relaxing place in the jungle. I started to get hesitant about telling everyone, but then Ralph just told me to never go there again. The conversation in the meeting just started to get more about the beastie. They were talking about if there were ghosts, or beasties, and so on.
I guess everything for Ralph has been getting really frustrating. So frustrating that Ralph wanted to give up being chief. Piggy and I didn't want him to give up his position. I mean, if Jack was chief all we would have is all hunting and no fire, so no rescue. If only a grownup was here. Everything would've been so much easier.. Boy, if we were never rescued.. the lamentation of the littluns would go on for a long, long time. |
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