Journal#3 LOTF

Chapter 3: Huts on the Beach

Perspective: Simon

Litluns

            I’ve been working on this hut for hours all of those litluns have run off by now. Jack is always trying to hunt pigs and not help with the shelter. He is so inscrutable most of the time. I am the helper and Jack can’t do anything I have been building the hut and then the litluns come out from the tendrils and ask me to pick fruit for them. Everyone is always telling me to do stuff and I can’t do eight things at once. I have enough vicissitudes with being stuck on this island.

            Today I had a compulsion to take a break from all the work. I went into the forest and I took some time to myself I just need a break. The flowers were blooming and the opaque plants sheltering me from the sun. I took some time to think of all the things that have happened like when the boy got lost in the fire. That was another thing that happened because of Jack. I can’t believe he set the island on fire. When I was in the forest those litluns came to me and wanted some more fruit because they can’t reach. Then they wandered off towards the huts. The litluns cheer me up and I like to be with them because they remind me off home. But they can get on my nerves.

            I need to start saying no to people when they ask me to do something so that I am not always filled up with things to do and I can get more time off to myself. I hate it how everyone expects me to do there chores when they go do things like hunt for pigs and bathe. Also Ralph can’t even keep control of the group Jack is always doing his own things and not listening to Ralph. That’s the whole reason we voted for a leader so we won’t get out of control. By the way it looks now I am worried we will lose it.