Journal#2 LOTF

Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain

Perspective: Jack

Fire!!!

I hate when we have these meetings Ralph thinks that a bunch of kids can decide on stuff. Ralph couldn’t even control them when he said fire that’s why I had to take over I told them to follow me and they all came up to the mountain. I got them to get into groups and find wood so we could build our fire. I went running into the forest and picked up a log and threw it onto the pile of wood. After twenty minutes we had the pile big enough but then we had to figure out how to light the fire. Since no one else could think of a way I pinched Piggy’s glasses because we could use them to light the fire. So I held the glasses over a rotten branch. After a while I started to see some smoke rising up from the branch. Then it turned into a flame filled with ebullience.

When the flame started to grow the boys began capering. The flame was like a tornado of heat anything to close would be whipped with an arm of heat. Then the wood began to disintegrate into ash. I told the boys to get more wood but the errant boys did not listen. So the fire died. Piggy started talking his voice changed into recrimination. Then he gazed down the hill. His eyes dragged everyone else’s eyes to a spark of flame in the forest. “Then he said there’s your little fire.”

Those boys burnt down all of our food and resources to build shelter. We lost the boy who talked of the snake. He went back dawn into the forest get some more wood and now he is lost in the forest and half the island is burning down. If he isn’t dead he will be. Ralph is losing control of those boys and piggy can’t even keep track of the boys when he’s not helping with the fire. Now we’re stuck on this island longer.