Dear diary,
We've been rescued! We all thought that this
day was never going to come, but I always had hope about it. I just wish that
Piggy, Simon, and the mulberry-marked boy was here to see it. The naval officer
came just in time because Jack and his hunters would've caught up to me and
killed me. We all cried because that officer had reminded us of everything that
we had lost when crashing on the island and it all of our emotions came rushing
back. We are all on our way back to England, but I don’t know if some of us are
ready to face the consequences of our actions on the island. Jack forced us all
to kill Simon, Roger killed Piggy, Jack beat and threatened the twins and
Wilfred, and even threatened to kill me. I don’t even think that I'm ready to
face my parents and to see the look on their faces of the fact that they lost a
son on the plane crash and another boy has been reborn. I'm not ready…
Hours later we land in England were immediately
greeted by a huge crowd of people who are cheering and crying for our safe
return. In the sea of unfamiliar faces, I noticed my parents and so did the
rest of the boys. We all ran screaming to greet them with open arms, I was so
happy to see them that I started to cry. Everyone got to see their parents all
except for the 3 boys that died. There was a woman who said that she was
looking for a short fat boy with thick glasses. I, sadly had to break the news
that the boy she was talking about died on the island. She broke into tears,
crying out Piggy's real name, Linus. I gave her a hug and walked on because I
couldn't bear to watch her cry anymore since I couldn’t help him. I heard some
other parents calling out for their son. Simon. I walked up to them with my
head down in shame knowing that I was part of the reason that he was died. I
built up all of my courage and told them that Simon was also killed on the
island. They also broke down in tears, but they asked me how he died and I fell
silent.
They asked me again but I still had no answer
for them. Every bone in my body was saying "TELL THEM JACK KILLED
HIM!!", but my head and heart were saying "Just tell the truth of
what really happened that night." I decided to tell them the truth. They
were in shock the entire time, until I was in shock because Simon's mother gave
me a hug and said that she was sorry about what I had to go through on that
horrible island. I walked away with a feeling of shame and a little bit of
gratitude. I don't think I can stomach telling another parent that their child
didn't make off of that miserable island. I walk back to go find my parents but
I run into Jack instead. He tries to apologize for making all the boys want to
kill me those couple of times, he doesn't know why he did all of those things.
As I was about to say something to police officers came up behind me.
They grabbed Jack's arm and took him away and
talked to him for a bit. Then they walked and Jack was on the ground just
silent. I didn’t feel obligated to go over there and ask him what's wrong
mainly because I hated him and didn’t really want to know, but I went over to
him anyways. He told me that his family had gone out of a rescue ship to try
and find him but the ship never returned. I feel as if he expected me to feel
bad but I did, just no the way he wanted me to. My mom called my name and I
walked off back home while sitting on my dad's shoulders just looking up at the
gorgeous afternoon sky thinking of my fondest memories of Piggy and Simon.
Signing off for good,
Ralph McCullen
