LOTF chptr 10

LOTF - Chptr 12 - Cry of the Hunters

Lord of the Flies

Chptr 12 - Cry of the Hunters

The End

Perspective - Simon

The boys were just rescued by Naval Officers. Ralph was trying to run away from Jack and his boys. He came out of the forest and saw a Naval Officer in white drill. The Naval Officer was disappointed that we, British boys, fell apart like we did, killing, and chasing, having a childish war. Ralph took responsibility for everything happening on the island, although his group of boys was gone, and he was no longer leader, he still took the blame. Jack did not stand up and say it was him; he just stayed in the back and let Ralph take the hits. In a way, it was sort of Ralphs fault because he was the original leader and didn’t hold us all together.

Jack and his boys came out, half naked, with spears, chasing Ralph. They all saw the officer, and sort of froze; they were all in shock that finally, finally they were rescued. Percival Wemys Madison forgets his name when he sees the officer; he'd lost everything and couldn't even remember his name.

When Ralph went back to Castle Rock, he saw Sam n' Eric. They gave him a piece of meat that they had left over. They tell Ralph that jack and the boys are going to have cordons go up and down the island to find Ralph. Ralph says that he will hide in the thicket right there, close to their camp. He says they will never find him there. Sam n' Eric tell Ralph that Roger had prepared a stick sharpened on both sides. At the time Ralph cannot figure out what it means. But what this resembles is that they are going to cut his head off like they did to the pig, or the Lord of the Flies. Sam n' Eric tell Roger and Jack that Ralph is in the thicket. First, they pushed the rocks off the castle rock to try and break the thicket or scare him out. This didn't work, so they started poking their spears in there. This scared Ralph and he reacted by shoving his own spear up and he hit someone. This scared them, but also let them know that Ralph really was in there. Finally, to get Ralph out of the thicket, they light it on fire. Ralph runs out and begins running for his life until finally he gets to the beach, and notices the officers. I am happy for them and glad that Ralph made it alive. He got rescued and I'm happy for him.

LOTF - Chptr 8 & 9

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 8 and 9

LOTF - Chptr 11 - Castle Rock

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 11 - Castle Rock
"Not Over Piggy's Dead Body"
Perspective - None

1 - In the beginning of the chapter, Ralph and Piggy are talking about Jack and his boys stealing Piggy's specks and the fire. Piggy tells Ralph to blow the conch and call a meeting. Ralph doesn't want to because he sees it as no use with just four boys and a few littleuns. Ralph eventually blows the conch and a small assembly begins. They then talk about how they will approach Jack and the boys.

2 - Piggy says that he is going to go to Jack with the conch in his hands and tell him that he knows he is bigger, stronger, doesn't have asthma, and can see without glasses and with both eyes. But Piggy says he is going to tell Jack to give him back his specks, not as a favor, but because its the right thing to do.

3 - Ralph says they should be themselves. Maybe sharpen up a bit, but they should just be how they always are.

4 - Ralph challenges all of the other boys to get to the top and to talk to Jack. It turns out that Jack is not even there, he is hunting, but he comes out of the forest while everyone else is arguing.

5 - When Jack comes back out of the forest, he had just finished hunting. He came out of the grass and trees with a headless, paunched pig.

6 - Ralph calls Jack a thief for taking Piggy's specks. This makes Jack delirious and starts a fight. Truculently, they begin fighting and approach each other with spears, and no spears. They'd been fighting on and off this whole entire chapter.

7 - After the final fight, Jack orders his boys to tie up Sam n' Eric. I think he did this, mainly to prove that they will do anything he tells them to do. They tied them up then the boys surrounded them while Jack and Ralph where arguing.

8 - While Piggy is talking about getting his specs back that it's the right thing for Jack to give him back his specks, Roger is up at the top dropping stones, throwing them at Piggy and Ralph. One hand was on the lever to knock the boulder of the top of the Castle Rock.

9 - I think that Roger is responsible for Piggy's death, not Jack. Jack was talking to Piggy and Ralph and Jack never said anything to Roger about letting the boulder fall. It was completely Rogers decision to let the rock go. He had been aggravating Piggy, and Sam n' Eric throwing stones at them the entire time they were there. There was no cessation in the rocks coming down. Piggy had been in the same spot, gripping on to his talisman or, the conch. Roger is the murderer, nobody else.

LOTF - Chptr 7 - Shadows and Tall Trees

Lord of the Flies

Chapter 7 – Shadows and Tall Trees

“The Hunt is On”

Perspective – Piggy

After Ralph spears the boar, the boys all begin to reenact killing a boar. Robert pretended to be the boar, squealing and running around. We were poking him with the butt side of our spears. After Ralph speared the boar, we were all excited and ready to hunt. We were windy and childish. We couldn’t wait to keep hunting for the beastie.

We all were saying that we should dress up and make drums up by the fire and put together a real show. We said that someone should dress up as a pig and we can pretend to kill it. When Robert suggests that we use a real live pig, because we have to kill it. But Jack, bravado, jokes that we should use one of the littleuns and have them pretend to be a boar and we “pretend” to kill them. This is foreshadowing that one of the boys is going to be killed either mistaken as a boar, or acting as a boar. I’m scared and am not sure what is going to happen. But I think Jack has gotten too violent like you should be in rugger, but not when you are trying to survive. But everyone is too impervious to notice it.

We saw prints on the ground and believe that they belong to the beast. I’m not sure if we will see the beast or if we will kill it if we do see it. When we get to the top, we saw a lump and it begins to move and sway. Dun, we look at him and begin to approach it.

I think that the game was a bit childish but was fairly fun to be able to once again be a child. I do not like Jack’s foolishness about the littleuns. He doesn’t care about anyone else but the ones who he thinks do their fair share about stuff on the island. The game was funny when Robert started squealing, but I can tell that someone is going to get hurt from our foolishness.

LOTF Chptr 6- Beast from Air

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 6 - Beast From Air
"The Hunt for the Flying Beast"
Perspective - Ralph

1. The sign that they get is the dead aviator who is assumed to be a pilot fighting in World War II and ejected from his plane.
   
   
2. The boys were not aware of this pilot falling out of the sky because it happened at night while everybody was sleeping and Sam and Eric were watching he fire and saw the aviator or “beast.”
   
   
3. Sam and Eric are terrified about the beast as if leviathan had appeared to them. They were very scared thinking that they had come embroiled with the beast. Or at least think they did.
   
   
4. Sam an Eric describes the beast having long claws, sharp teeth, and wings. They explain the beast being a horrid, scary beast.
   
   
5. When we have the meeting and I tell everyone that Sam and Eric have seen the beast, everyone goes waxy with excitement and fear that is interminable. They, lead by Jack, want to just go head on with the beast and react to the thought and fear of becoming embroiled with the beast. But we cannot do that; I try to explain that we do not exactly know what we are dealing with or if what Sam ’n Eric say is really all, or really is what the beast is. We need a plan; of course Jack, in-diffidently, he disagrees with what I say and goes against my word.
   
   
6. I do not think there is a beast because we have not seen one and have not yet seen what Sam ‘n Eric described. The beast has not come out to us and we have checked where they say it was at, but did not see it. I am beginning to think that they had seen something which they mistakenly took as the “beast.”
   
   
7. I feel that my decisions are stronger than anyone else who will try to be leader. Although most everyone agrees with Jack’s opinions, I believe it is because he reacts on his feeling and does not think about any of the consequences.
   
   
8. I am mainly stressed over Jack trying to take my place as leader. With him competing, I must work harder to what the rest of the boys can relate with. One thing I really have to do is make sure that they can understand me and that they know what they must do and what I have to do in order to be their chief.
   
   
9. Sometimes being leader can be hard and I wish that I could appoint someone else. Honestly though, I do not think that anyone else is not yet mature enough to be appointed chief. I do like having the respect that I get and being in charge and having power although there are some down parts about it. But this will happen in all situations no matter what sort of authority you have.

LOTF - Chptr. 5 Beast From the Water

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 5 - Beast From the Water
"The Invisible Beast"
Perspective - Jack

1. 1 - The assembly was called during dinner last night. Ralph called it because he was mad about us hunters going hunting and forgetting the fire. Ralph’s ludicrous behavior is not going to keep us all together. He needs to calm down and not get so mad about little things like this.

2. 2- During this assembly Ralph talks about all of the jobs assigned on the island. Ralph talks about the fire, and how we need to keep it going at all times. He says that the fire must stay on top of the mountain and we cannot bring fire down from the mountain, we must bring our food up the mountain. He says that the most important job is to keep the fire going. I say that it is more important that we have meat. We need protein and need to eat to have energy to do stuff. Meat is an effigy to life on this island. He also addresses that we need to use the bathroom in the rocks by the water. Not outside our huts, or by the food, he says everything is dirty and we need to keep clean to survive. He also said that when we first got here we said we’d fill up coconut shells everyday with water from the stream, and now nobody does it. He also complains about not helping build the shelters, and about splitting up and that we are falling apart from each other. This assembly was such ludicrous that I got up and left. I did not want to hear Jack’s and Piggy’s lamentation of nothing.

3. 3- I think that Ralph is stupid and is too worried about the fire. He talks too much about everyone being scared and about this “beast”. There is no beast on this damn island and there is no reason to be scared about that. He talks about it too much that all of the little ones get scared. Whenever we have meetings, there’s the lamentation of the little boys about the stupid beastie.

4. 4- Things are falling apart because the older boys aren’t agreeing with each other, Ralph is discursive about this beastie, and everyone is “scared.” We are always fighting and Ralph has this incantation about the fire going, and the beastie at night, and the littleuns crying at night. I should have been elected chief and he should have never even been a choice.

5. 5- I think the littleuns cry in their sleep because they are sissies and want their mommy. Ralph gets them all hyped up about nothing and they have nothing but nightmares and cry about it. I think they are babies and need to grow up.

6. 6- Percival Wemys Madison claims that he saw the beastie. Although I’ve seen every inch of this island, I’ve never come across a beast. He claims that it comes from the water and he is scared that it will come at night and that I will never see it because he lives in the water.

7. 7- The dirtiest thing about human nature, I think is arrogance, and violence. There is nothing worse than people being arrogant and violent with each other. And snobs, like Piggy, thinks he knows everything about everything and everyone.

8. 8- I hate Ralph, thinking he is the best leader, trying to keep this fire going. Even if we had the thing going I doubt that the boat would have seen us. I should have been chief, and Ralph does not deserve to have been chief. He is no leader; he does nothing, just yells at us when we don’t do what he says. He orders us around like pigs and doesn’t help with any of the jobs he wants done. He is nothing and worthless.

LOTF Chapter 4 - Painted Faces and Long Hair

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 4 - Painted Faces and Long Hair
"The Middle of the Mess"
Perspective: Simon

1 - One of the things that I think is the hardest to adjust to, is providing my own food. My whole life I never had to hunt, or scavenge for food. It had always been put right there on my plate, and my plate right there in front of me on the table. It is very weird having to feed myself and it’s just taking a lot longer to adjust to than I’d thought.

2 - I think that the littluns are not acting as they should. They just play on the beach BLATANT and in the water, look for berries, and mess around all day. They need to begin maturing, at least to the older boy’s age. They need to help with all of the work and jobs we have on this island.

3 - All the littluns do is play in the sand and do nothing at all that has to do with work. As long as they’re playing they’re fine, but to us it’s not fine. We need help hunting, keeping the fire running, building the huts. We need help.

4 - We paint our faces so that the pigs and animals don’t see us through the bushes. We paint our faces to camouflage our faces with the forest.

5 - This foreshadows us being better hunters and a better army. I believe that we will become savages and already are, but the face paint is not only going to disguise from animals and each other, but will disguise the island from all others. The face paint is going to make this island disguised and IMPALPABLE from any other human beings.

6 - I do not paint my face, because I stay on the beach with Ralph and Piggy and help build the huts and relax on the beach.

7 - As Ralph, Piggy, and I are sitting on the beach, Ralph stands up saying that he sees smoke on the horizon. Instantly we run up the mountain to check our smoke signal. As we are running, Jack yells MALEVOLENTLY. We get to the top and see that the fire was out. The fire was Jacks job and the one time we needed it, he lets it burn out. There is no BALM this time for Ralph’s pain of failure as chief.

8 - The fire went out because Jack pulled his fire guards away from the fire to hunt. This allowed the fire to go out when most needed. As Ralph yelled at Jack, Jack’s BELLIGERENCE keeps him from understanding what has just happened all because of him.

9 - Overall everyone is wound up, wanting meat, wanting shelter, and wanting to be rescued. We are scared, always wondering about tomorrow. Everybody is acting very immature and not acting like adults how they should be.

10 - I think that Jack and Ralph are going to end up splitting up. They have not been getting along very well and I think that we are going to split in to two different groups. I’m kind of the middle man, in the middle of all the mess. I am leaning towards Ralph’s side, mainly because he has better ideas of what to do and how to survive, while Jack’s priorities are hunting and meat.

LOTF - Chptr. 3 Huts on the Beach

Lord of The Flies
Chapter 3 - Huts on the Beach
"The Island as it is"
Perspective - Piggy

Journal entry 1:

Today I found some bark and a burnt piece of wood that I could use to write. I am going to start writing everyday and summarize the things that have happened in that day. I have been sitting here by our pool with my feet in and looking in the water thinking about this experience so far and about this island that we landed on. I have not been helping Ralph and Simon like i normally would because I have not been getting the respect I should be getting. We all need to be more mature and stop acting like children and more like adults. We will never be rescued or survive without maturity and responsibility. I think that these shelters are important to be built to ensure security and so that they can feel more at home. This is important so that they gain trust, and maybe with trust and safety they will be more likely to start helping and working.

LOTF: Chapter 2- Fire on the Mountain

Lord of the Flies

Chapter 2- Fire. on the Mountain

"Smoke Signals"

Perspective- Ralph

1: I think that we are on a good island, which is going to protect us. But also that this island is not yet marked, so, in that way, it is a bad island. In that case, I believe that it is some of both

2: The little boy explained the beastie as being a snake thing. He was very scared and got all of the other little boys all worked up. I tried to induce them that there was no such thing, but they would not listen.

3: I think that the beastie symbolizes the vines and creepers and when the little boy was walking through the forest he got caught in the vines and got scared thinking it was a snake or, beastie. I do not believe that there is really a snake thing out there in the woods. They kept pushing it, but I, as their leader, had to reassure them that there was no such thing as the beastie.

4: The beastie really makes me think, what if there really is something out there? What if it does exist and I am giving all of the kids false hope and lies? It worries me that something is going to happen to happen to a kid and it will be my fault for it because I told them that there was no such thing. Every night I am martyred by the fact that something might happen to one of us during the night because of the beastie.

5: To get us rescued, I will keep smoke signals waiting, continue making good decisions and keep everyone in line. We all need to mature and calm down and think about everything that we are going to do. I will do all I can to keep everyone together, calm, and thinking. But until I can come up with a better idea, we will be running smoke signals all day and all night.

6: I really want to get off this island and get back under the authority of adults. Although this freedom here on the island is wonderful, it really is kind of scary and overwhelming. Because I am leader, it makes everything even more overwhelming, and because of that, I want to get off of this island and be rescued already.

7: We started our first fire last night using Piggy’s specks. We had no idea how to start a fire with sticks or rocks and once Piggy got up to the top of the mountain I realized that we could use them. So, I pinched them from him and used them to catch the sunlight and burn the wood. Once we got the fire started, we were all capering around the fire errantly not paying attention to anything but the fact that we had started a small fire. Later the next day, the fire goes out of control and creeps around the top of the mountain starting a large fire. We then have enough smoke to be a smoke signal, but it burns out all of our fire wood.

8: That day, Piggy realizes that the little boy with the mark on his face, who was also the one to complain about the beastie, was missing. We believe that he did not come down from the mountain with us, and was killed by the fire, or some creature. All we know for sure is that he is missing. Immediately I accuse Piggy for the little boy missing in recrimination of him not doing a head count of all the kids that are on the island and for not getting their names.

9: I am different from everyone because I don’t really have as much ebullience as others. I think I am a little more calm, at least on the outside, and am more laid back. I’m the leader of all the boys and have more power than everyone else.

10: Every night I am scared that something is going to happen, that someone is going to get hurt. I think officiously that we are not going to get off of this island. It worries me that we could possibly be stuck here until we all die. Every night this question bothers me, are we ever going to get off this island, will they see our smoke signals in the sky?

Lord Of the Flies
Chapter 1- The Sound of the Shell
"Killing The Pig"
Perspective- Jack

1: So far I've seen a good part of the Island. When i woke up i was in the middle of the forest just outside the tree line from the beach. There are a lot of trees and rocks around this island. The rocks along the beach have a light pink tint to them and have an incredulous size to them. It is hot, and the sand is warm, but we stay covered by the trees to keep cool.

2: We were flying during World War 2 when we were mistakenly shot down and crashed into the island. We have reason to believe that none of the adults survived.

3: My name is Jack Merridew, I am the precentor of the school choir and have stuck with them since we crashed. When we heard the horn we started our way toward the sound and out to the beach. When we got to them, the only people I met, or bothered to meet, where Ralph, the boy with the conch, and Piggy, a fat boy who was accompanying Ralph. Ralph had become the leader of all us kids. I was not too happy about this at first, but he made my choir the hunters, and I became the leader of them. Ralph, Simon, and I went on an expedition together to look for any people on the island and to find out if what we were on really even was an island. During this time i began to like Ralph and us three have become a good trio.

4: We were on the plane with only the pilot and two teachers who were all in the front of the plane. The nose of the plane was first to be shot and to hit the ground. So far we have not found any adults and do not believe that there are any of them living.

5: The person with the conch has a great amount of power, because they are the ones who can receive everybody's attention and can attract all people. Therefore, they get the greatest deal of respect which also grants them a large amount of power.

6: The choirs job is to hunt for food for the rest of the kids. I happen to be the leader of the choir and of the hunters. I feel that we have a great deal of responsibility and should take this responsibility seriously. We will use our togs to create traps for the animals.

7: I believe that I should have been elected chief because I have more communion experience and more experience with leading a group. I am not saying that Ralph will be a bad leader, but that i would make a better one.

8: While we were on our way back from our expedition, we encountered a piglet caught in creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces. I drew my knife from its sheath and raised my arm to kill it, as my arm was up in the air i stopped, and the piglet escaped. I did not kill this helpless animal because it was as if killing a human being, i am just a child and have never done such a thing. I t was such a big hit that i just froze and could not bear to do it.