Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters

Dear diary,

I feel so empty… numb. My last and only friend is dead. All I did was run like a coward to hide in the Jungle leaving Piggy's body behind. Piggy was right, all civilization has been stripped from this island. As I'm running, I stumble across the pig's head, I don’t even remember getting this far away from Castle Rock. The head is nearly all skull, it reminds me of the once whit conch and in anger and disgust, I knock it down and take the stake as a weapon against Jack. Why did they kill you, Piggy? All you were just trying to do was making Jack and his boys listen and go back to civility. All you were trying to do was make us understand.

That night, I snuck down to the camp at Castle Rock and find Samneric standing guard at the entrance. They were kind enough to give me food but the refused to join me. They also told me about Jack plans on sending his entire tribe after me tomorrow, because I trust them I tell them where ill be hiding in hopes that they will lead Jack away from me. So I make a break for the thickets and decide to sleep there for the night. In the morning, I wake up to the sound of talking and torturing one of the twins to find out where I'm hiding. Several of the boys try to break into the thicket by rolling a boulder but it's too small and dense, so they try and fight their way through but I manage to fend them off. All of a sudden I smell smoke and realize that Jack is trying to smoke me out like I'm some kind of wild animal but he sets the jungle on fire in the process.

I gather all of my strength to abandon my hiding place and I fight my way past Jack and group of hunters. I'm trying to run as fast as I can whilst being chased by a group of body-painted warrior-boys wielding sharp wooden spears, I frantically try and find a place to hide. I end up on the beach, where I collapse of exhaustion, while the boys are close behind. I open my eyes and see a naval officer standing over me. He tells me that me that he saw the fire blazing from the jungle from his ship. Jack and his hunters come screaming in onto the beach and they all fall silent and still. He figures out what we were doing and he asks us why, us as English boys, have lost all rules of civilization in such a short time. As he is saying this, I feel an overwhelming rush of the knowledge of being rescued and is being rescued after coming so close to a violent death. I begin to sob, so do the other boys and the officer turns around so we can regain our composure. I can't believe we were rescued. I just wish that Piggy, Simon, and the boy with the mulberry birth mark were here to be rescued also. Rest in peace.

Signed,

    Ralph 

Chapter 11: Castle Rock

Dear diary,

Nothing I do seems to be working, Jack and his hunters have stolen Piggy's glasses and now we can't make fire. Piggy suggests that I hold a meeting to discuss what we're going to do, when I blow the conch all the boys that haven't joined Jack have assembled. We decide to go to Castle Rock and try to make Jack and his boys see reason and civility, so I take the conch to Castle Rock.   When I get there, I encounter the armed guards and blow the conch, but the guards tell me to leave and they start to throw stones at us.

Jack and his hunters emerge from the forest, bringing along a dead pig. I feel this rush of anger and I can't help myself so I start to face off Jack. He commands us to leave his camp so I demand that he return Piggy's glasses, but he attacks me and we fight. I trying my hardest to make Jack understand how important it is to keep the signal fire so we can be rescued, but instead he orders that Samneric be tied up. Another even bigger spark of anger flashes within me and I lunge at Jack once more.

 

We fight for the second time. Piggy tries to shout over Jack and I fighting, trying to remind us of the importance of the rules that we had established when we first got here. In the mix of all of this, Roger shoves a massive rock down the mountainside at us. I hear the rock falling and luckily get out of the way in perfect time. Sadly, the massive rock strikes Piggy, shatters the conch, and knocks his off the mountainside where he falls to his death on the rock down below. Jack throws his spear at me and everyone else starts to do the same. I quickly escape to the jungle leaving Samneric to Jack. Piggy, I’m so sorry. You deserved better and I never even go the chance to find out what your real name is.

Signed,
             Ralph

Chaoter 10: The Shell and The Glasses

Dear diary,

Ashamed… Disgusted… Murderers… Those are all the word that come to mind when I think of the unspeakable act that committed last night.  I feel… I don’t even have any words to explain about how I feel after what we did. Piggy tries to deny that fact the he too participated in this act of savagery, but he knows exactly what he did. None of us want to own up to what we did, I don’t think any of us will. So far it's only Piggy, Sam, Eric, and I left in our "tribe", everyone else has gone with Jack and are now headquartered at the Castle Rock, the mountain of the island. We all feel so alone. Just alone.

At castle rock, Jack's power is starting to get out of hand, he punished his boys for no apparent reason. He tied and beat up a boy named Wilfred and warns the boys to stay away from me and our small group of boys by saying that they're a danger to the tribe. What a jerk! Last night, we were all convinced that Simon was really the beast and Jack got everyone on the idea that the beast is capable of assuming any disguise. He wants al of his boys to be on guard all the time for the beast because he claims that it is never truly dead, such a tool.

While we were all peacefully sleeping, even though were all plague by nightmares because of what we did to Simon, Jack and his hunters come storming it. They badly beat us for no reason ALL FOR STUPID FIRE! We would've been willing to share it with them, even though they are just a group of monsters in the night. While they were attacking us, they stole Piggy's glasses and our only power to make fire for warmth and rescue. WHY JACK? WHAT HAVE YOU BECOME?

Signed,

    Ralph

Chapter 9: A View to a Death

Dear diary,

I don’t know what to do anymore!! It looks like Jack is winning and I have no idea on how to stop him! I'm losing everything, even the power to be a leader and I don’t know what to do! Piggy and I go to the feast in hopes of trying to gain some control over some things and everyone is just laughing and eating the roasted pig. Jack is sitting like a king on a throne, face painted like a savage, shouting commands, and being waited on by boys acting as if they are his servants, WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS!?!?! After the grand meal, Jack has the nerve to ask my followers to join his tribe, and some of them accepted! That annoying Jack!

Good thing Mother Nature was on my side and it started to rain, Jack's tribe had no shelters to protect them from the rain. BRILLIANT! Jack orders his boys to dance as if that is supposed to make the rain stop, what a fool. Caught up in all the dancing and chanting we all slip into a frenzy and get swept away by the excitement. We reenact the hunting of the pig, until suddenly one of the boys sees a shadowy figure creep out of the forest. Little did we know, it was only Simon. We all start shouting that he's the beast and we start to tear him apart with our bear hands and teeth.

We couldn't stop, even if we wanted to, but it was already too late. He was trying to explain what had happened and remind us of who he is, he trips and plunges over the rocks onto the beach… and we kill him. In cold blood. Like savages. Wild beasts. The storm scares us all to shelter and the waves carry Simon's mangled body into the ocean. Poor Simon, he deserved better. We all ran off like cowards because there was something else floating away in the water and we were terrified. I cannot believe that we did that. Killed Simon.






Signed,

            Ralph

Chapter 8: Gift fof the Darkness

Dear diary,

I feel as if I am losing my power and hold on the rest of the boys and Jack is slowly starting to take hold of them. Since the news of the beast was confirmed, everyone is frightened by the fact that they were right. Jack calls for and emergency meeting of the boys with the conch and confirms the beast sightings and calls me, of all people, a coward! He also said that Jack should be the leader but the boys refuse to vote me out of power. Jack storms away and says that anyone who likes him can join in, that jerk Is just full himself! But I don’t know what to do anymore!! Simon says that we should return to the mountain and search for the beast but that other boys are way too afraid to do it. I DON KNOW WHAT TO DO!

Piggy tires to cheer me up by suggesting that we build a new signal fire on the beach rather than on the mountain, which makes me feel better because no one wants to get rescued more than me. We build the fire and some of the boys sneak away to Jack's group during the night and Piggy says that we're better off without deserters. On another side of the beach, Jack gathers a new tribe and declares himself the chief and they fall into a savage frenzy and kill a sow. Roger drives his spear through it, they cut off head and put it on a sharpened stake in the jungle as an offering to the beast. Since the head is dripping black blood down its teeth, the boys run away.

While Piggy and I discuss the deserters, Jack and his tribe steal burning sticks from the fire on the beach and Jack invites them to their feast. I could tell that some of the boys wanted to say yes because everyone in tired of eating fruit and want some meat. Simon slips away from the camp and returns to the jungle glade where he previously sat staring at the amazing beauty of the nature. He finds the sow's head impaled on the stake and sits alone starting at the head which is now smarming with flies. The sight mesmerizes him and to him the head seems to be coming to life, and the head speaks to him in the voice of the "Lord of the Flies", saying that Simon will never be able to escape him because of the lies within all human beings. Simon was so terrified that he passed out. I'm starting to get worried about whether or not we might survive.

Signed,

            Ralph

Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees

Dear diary,

It's getting harder every day to be on this miserable island, my hair is getting longer by the hour, the days seem to last forever, I would do anything for a bath, and most of all I miss my parents! Since time seems to feel as if moving slower on the island and sometimes just like to look out at the vast expanse of water and just wonder why I seems to always be against us. Blocking our way of getting home. Home. Now an unfamiliar word to all of us. Simon say me and lifted my spirits enough to give me enough courage to get through the day.

That afternoon, Jack and his hunters found pig dropping and they decide to hunt the pig while they continue to search for the beast. I think that’s a good idea since we could all use a little fun and food since we've all been scared out of minds because we spotted the beast. This was the first time in a while that I was excited to do anything. My first time hunting, has a nice ring to it. We track the boar on a wild chase and when we finally find, I throw my spear but it glances of the boar’s snout. I finally marked my man ship!!! Jack was bleeding, but I didn’t care because I finally went hunting!

The boys decided to play a dangerous game were Robert was playing a boar and everyone was trying to kill the boar. They started to dance, chant and jab at Robert with their spears, I think that at one point they might've forgotten that it was only a game. They nearly killed Robert, he didn’t want to be a part of the game anymore that he suggested that they actually use a boar for the game next time. I don’t even recognize them anymore; they're becoming animals in the wild. Simon offers to tell Piggy and the Littluns that they're going to be back late at night. Roger, Jack and I continue to travel up the mountain but Jack goes ahead of us and climbs the summit. He told that he had seen monster but Roger and I had to make sure that he actually did se something. There it was, a terrifying specter, a large shadowy form with the shape of a giant ape, making a flapping noise in the breeze. We were all terrified and run down the summit back to the other boys! Ok… I think I'm starting to believe that there IS something living on the island with us. 

Signed,

           Ralph

Chapter 6: Beast From Air

Dear diary,

It was late and everyone was tired, Simona and I carried the Littluns to the shelters before we go to sleep. Of course Sam and Eric have fallen asleep instead of watching the fire, but I don't think that there are going to be any passing planes in the night. Eventually, they wake up to tend the fire again, then they run back to the shelters claiming that they saw the beast in the trees. I call for an emergency meeting so everyone can hear what the twins are saying, they even said that the beast even assaulted them! Since a lot of the boys want all of this beast nonsense over with, they organize and expedition to search the island for monsters. They set out armed with wooden spears and leave Piggy and the Littluns behind.

I allow them to start a search because I want of this beast stuff to be over with and allowed Jack to be the leader of the search party. We walk along a thin path in the unknown into an unknown part of the wood that we have not been in before. There are son thin hills that are dotted with small caves, the other boys are afraid to search the caves but so I decide to go alone. While I am exploring the cave, by myself, I begin to regain my confidence and Jack also joins  me in the cave.

I feel as if Jack and I are slowly starting to get of the hot water in our friendship because we have been a little more time together. After we climb the hill, the boys begin to play and forget the whole reason why we are on the expedition. I start to get mad at them because we're supposed to be looking for the beast not be playing and that we must go back to the other mountain to rebuild the signal fire. I hate to have to be the tough guy, but if we want to catch the beast and get rescued, everyone is going to have to start listening to me.

Signed,

   Ralph

Chapter 5: Beast From Water

Dear diary,

The boys have stopped following the rules and are completely ignoring their responsibilities. They're not tending to the signal fire anymore, not gather clean drinking water, they refuse to help build the shelters, and don't use the designated toilet area. Everything seems to be falling into chaos. The Littluns are still having nightmares about the beasts and monsters and nothing seems to be shaking them of this belief. They're having nightmares every night and all you can hear is the echoes of their cries on the beach. It's getting hard to be a respected leader when no one will listen to the rules that will help them survive another day on the island.

Jack. Don't even get me stated with him, all he ever wants to do is go hunting with his boys. He is the one in charge of the fire, it's starting to make me feel as if he doesn't want to be rescued. I try to come the Littluns by telling them that there are no monsters or beasts on the island, that it's all just nightmares in their heads. I try to come the boys by telling them that are no monsters on the island but no one seems to be listening to me. Jack finally agreed with me on the matter of whether or not the beast exists, because it doesn't!

Annoyingly one of the Littluns says that he actually say the beast, everyone asks him when he had seen and why they can't see it during the daytime. He says that he thinks that the beast lives in the ocean at night. This idea terrifies all the boys and the meeting plunges into chaos. Jack offers to take his hunters into the woods and hunt down and kill the beast. All of a sudden Piggy, Simon, and I are left and Piggy suggests that I blow the conch to call them back but no one will listen since they all want the beastie gone. Am even the leader anymore? 

Signed,

          Ralph

Symbols

The Fire:

In the Lord of the Flies the fire is the one thing that the boys use to signal passing ships and boat to let them know that someone lives there and may need to be rescued. Jack and his hunters are in charge of always keeping the fire burning just in case if there is a passing ship or plane, they will be rescued. Jack and hunter are in charge of always keeping the fire burning, more specifically, Sam and Eric. The fire symbolizes of hope of getting of the island and getting to see their families again. When the fire went out, all of the boys lost all hope of being saved and didn’t care whether or not they would be saved.

 

The Glasses:

The glasses originally belonged to Piggy. The glasses symbolize vision and thinking because when you think of glasses you immediately think of someone who is smart, like Piggy. Besides Piggy using them, Jack used them to start the fire for their rescue but they ended up broken after he slapped Piggy in the face and one of the lenses broke. 

The Face Paint:

The Hunters are the only ones that use the face paint, but Jack is the only one who really seem to be affected by the face paint. It symbolizes savagery because it masks the humanity within all of us and turns us into to some that is unrecognizable, even to ourselves. Jack was mostly effected by this change in character because before they crashed on the island he was a goody-two-shoes and now is a completely different kid. In a way to the boys the face paint makes them feel brave because they were all doing something that they wouldn't normally being doing back home. I guess the island really did effect the boys.

Chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair

Dear Diary,

It's me again, things are starting to get a little difficult on the island. The Littluns are still having nightmares about the "beastie" and since they aren't tall enough, they are eating the bad fruit from the trees since they are too short to reach the ripened ones. Two of the older boys, Roger and Maurice, are bullying the Littluns all for fun and games. Jack is being obsessed with killing a pig more and more every day that it's starting to make him go crazy. 

Today Piggy and I spotted smoke on the horizon, it was the first sign of rescue that we have seen ever since we crashed on this miserable island. We run to the top of the mountain to see that THE SIGNAL FIRE IS NOT SMOKING!! Sam and Eric left the fire unattended and died out!!! Jack and the hunters come back from their hunt and they manage to kill their first pig but the victory is VERY bittersweet.  Jack doesn’t even care that we missed our one chance at getting rescued and HE DOESN'T EVEN CARE!!

Jack, being the hot-head that he is, started to get mad at Piggy because he was mad at him for letting the fire die, so he hits Piggy and one of the lenses on his specs breaks! His glasses were our only way of starting the fire and now we only have one left. I'm so furious with Jack, that boy really needs to stop acting so crazy. We roast the pig and Jack refuses to give Piggy some for no reason, but Piggy stands up for himself. FINALLY! Simon, being generous as always shares his meat with Piggy. Jack and I are officially playing for opposite teams now.

Signed,
             Ralph

The Beastie

          "The Beastie". To the Littluns it a more than just a nightmare trapped in their minds, but it's actually beast roaming the jungle while they sleep. Ralph, as the leader, doesn't believe that it's real, he says its just a nightmare and all part of their imagination. Piggy, being as smart as he is, thinks that the "beastie" doesn't exit because science that there are no such thing as monsters. Simon think that "beastie" is in all of them because everyone may be born with a good heart, but can become evil in time. Jack, well he doesn't care whether or not it is real, he just wants to kill it.

          Each one of their opinions are different, yet none of them really know if the "beastie" is real. I agree with Simon because I think that the "beastie" is just a metaphor for the inner beast inside all of the boys. So far, the only one showing beast-like behavior is Jack only because he has a short temper. If you really think about it, Simon's reasoning may actually have some logical standing behind it.

Chapter 3: Huts on the Beach

Dear Diary,

Everyone on this island is as lazy as Piggy! We need to build to shelters if we're going to survive on this island but everyone, but Simon, aren't helping at all. The hunters are supposed to be out hunting for me because some of the boys are craving meat but no one wants to corporate. Piggy was helping me but he got lazy and decided to lay down then build. Jack, being a hot-head as usual, gets mad because I bring up the fact that they didn't catch that pig last time.

Jack and some the other boys are avoiding the tasks by using hunting as an excuse to not do as told. Remember when I talked about the boy and his nightmares, well no everyone is a little scared and the Littluns are starting to get nightmare of the fire and "beastie". So to make us all on the same page, we all go swimming in the lagoon but we will still have the dislike of everything.

While we're relaxing, Simon takes the Littluns into the jungle to get some fruit from the trees. Simon told me that he wandered a little deeper into the jungle and found a peaceful quite place to just sit and think. So far today has been a little difficult, but I think that we all need some time to think and clear our heads about what'

s been happening lately.

Signed,

   Ralph
 

Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain

Dear Diary,

Today started off good because I came up with a really good rule where anyone who wants to talk has to be holding the conch shell at the meetings. Eh, am I good or am I good? Piggy, annoying as he is, gets mad because we haven't tried to find a way of this island which makes all the boys scared and worried. That boy has such a big mouth that it's CRAZY! One of the younger boys, with a mulberry-colored mark on his face, started to talk about a snakelike thing he called "beastie" that he saw the night before. Which causes even more fear with everyone, so the older boys had to try and calm them down and make them believe that there is no monster on the island. They tell the younger boys that the mulberry-colored marked boy was just having a nightmare.

Another one of my great ideas were for some of the boys to go to the top of the mountain and start a signal fire for passing ships and planes. We left Piggy behind because he was being annoying and not liking my decision as chief, but he didn’t want to be left behind so he came with us. At first it was hard to build the fire because rubbing the 2 sticks together wasn't really helping, but we took Piggy's glasses and used them to magnify the sun and start the fire. He was pretty upset, but at least we got our signal fire going. The fire burned out easily and Piggy started to get mad because we weren't listening to what he was saying, we probably just used the wrong wood.

We tried to start a signal fire one more time but since there were younger kids running around acting crazy, so I put Piggy in charge of taking names and keeping track of them. When we started the fire, the fire got way out of hand and it nearly burned the entire island! When we called a meeting to make sure that everyone was ok, one of the younger boys was missing. I was really mad at Piggy because he only had one simple job and he failed, miserably. I just hope that he's not dead.

Signed,
             Ralph