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.