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.