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.
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