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.