Journal#5 LOTF

Chapter 5: Beast from Water

Perspective: Ralph

Beastie!!!

            I had to call a meeting in the dark everything was getting out of control. I had to set the rules straight. But first I had to think of what I was going to say, like Piggy he is always thinking. But if I wanted these bots to listen to me then I will need some decorum. I am so frustrated those boys can’t even remember where to take a short. I started by telling them that I was the only one talking right now. Then I went through the rules. When you go take a short you go in the rocks by the water, when you make a fire the only place it can be is on top of the mountain. I kept going on with the rules then I let them comment on what I just said.

            I think that my speech really got to those ludicrous boys. When I let the other boys talk there was this little boy who was talking of a beast, and that he heard it in the forest. Everyone started to laugh at the boy when he spoke of the beast. Humiliated by this he began to lamentation. Then another boy named Percival stood up and said he saw a beast from the water like a squid.

            The boys’ conversation became discursive. Then we all heard a loud screech everyone thought it was the beast from the water. I’m not sure but I think it was Percival. Because he was lying there in the tall grass we called his name but the incantation did not wake him up. Maybe the beast got him.