Journal#9 LOTF

Chapter 9: A View to Death

Perspective: Ralph

Simon!!!

I can’t believe that Jack thinks that he can go off and make his own tribe after he voted me as chief. He thinks that everyone wants to join his tribe because there are no rules. But that is stupid without rules the community will fall apart. All the other boys think that they can suviv on this island always having fun and games. But they can’t.

Piggy convinced me to go over to Jack because we can’t live off fruit. So I understood his point and we went over to his “Party”. We wanted some meat because they had caught a giant pig. When we got over there I saw a big log and a throne on top of it with Jack sitting in the throne like a king. There were boys feeding him and serving him coconut milk out of the shell.

He had paint on his face that was phosphorescent. He told some of his boys to give us some meat. So they rushed over to the pig body hanging over the fire and ripped us a descent piece of meat. The meat tasted pretty good after eating all that fruit and no meat.

I wanted to call an assembly so I blew the conch and Jack said that the conch didn’t work on this side of the island. Out of nowhere it starts raining and there is thunder. Jack and his tribe start dancing and chanting when a corpulent figure came from the bushes and everyone thought it was the beast but in turned out to be Simon and he was dead. But before he died he spoke of a dead man on the mountain and it’s not a beast. A few moments later what do you know a dead parachutist gets pulled off the mountain by the wind and falls into the ocean. Man I’m going to miss Simon…