Ralph cries, “If only they could get a message to us…if only they could send us something grown up….a sign or something,” (Golding, 83). When Ralph asks for a message or a sign from grownups, a dead aviator falls from the sky in a parachute. His parachute makes a noise that makes the boys think that its a beastie. I don't really think that its a good sign, or anything like that. I think that its just showing us that we aren't responsible and are eventually going to lose our minds.
The boys don't know that its a dead human because they are convinced that its the beastie and they are also letting the fear get to their minds. They also don't know its a human because they are a afraid that the 'beastie' might get them.
Sam 'n Eric were the first to find the 'beastie'. They heard a strange noise from the parachute, and they automatically thought it was the beastie and that it tried to get them. The beastie chasing them was all in their imagination and they got all the other boys hipped up.Sam 'n Eric describe the beastie as a winged beast that is dark and mysterious. They also say that it is trying to east them and kill them.
At first the boys were kind of excited when they went to get the beastie but once they got into the real situation, they panicked a bit. The littluns were scared and the biguns were scared a bit too but didn't show it. I don't think that there really is a beastie. I think that its all in our heads and that we shouldn't let trivial things get in our heads. I know this because we haven't had any proof of it and we haven't been attacked before this and the twins could have just seen something.
I think the beastie really is their fear that they wont get rescued. Also that they might not live to see their families again. It might not be just that though, they may just be making up excuses for us to pay attention to them.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Ludicrous Meeting
Perspective; Jack
After we caught a pig, Ralph called a meeting about all this ludicrous things that don't really matter. He was going off about how things need to change. He started talking about how the water wasn't being brought to the places it was suppose to go. Then he talked about the huts, how some were not that safe, and how everyone only helped on the first one. Then how the littluns aren't taking a short in the right places.
He ended with the talk of the "Beastie" which I knew there was none so I made that point out really quickly. Sometime during that talk all the littluns started to do some lamentation but it died down in a bit. It just sounded like a bunch of discursive nonsense to me.
During the meeting Ralph said how things were falling apart. I don't really think things are falling apart, but the boys aren't listening to Ralph anymore. They are also treating things that have importance to them as if they don't matter. They wander around playing and everything. It seems as if they aren't using decorum toward Ralph anymore. I don't really mind as long as they stay out of my way, and obey when I ask something of them.
Also during the meeting there was a mention of the littluns crying in their sleep. Mostly because of the fear of the beastie getting them. Others have nightmares about the kreepers and such. I think most of them miss their parents and hide it as nightmares when they cry. It's not really my concern though.
There was a particular littlun, Percival Wemys Madison. He tended to through up a lamentation a lot about the beastie. He also seemed to be loosing his mind. Some of the older kids tend to mess with him, others pay no heed. He was one of the littluns that started the whole 'beastie' mess. He was mostly afraid of the kreepers or the beastie getting to him.
Simon asked us what was the dirtiest thing about the human nature during the meeting. The dirtiest thing about the human nature in my opinion is that they are too sensitive to each other. They hold back when they don't need to and they let their emotions sway their opinions. When I hold back the memory stays jeeringly at me, as if I've done something wrong.
I don't particularly like Ralph since he became leader. He isn't doing anything about it, just complaining, and telling us what we aren't doing. He just complains and complains. Especially when I do something that is important, he goes of saying its horrible. If he hadn't of found the conch then he wouldn't have been leader. It would have been me.
After we caught a pig, Ralph called a meeting about all this ludicrous things that don't really matter. He was going off about how things need to change. He started talking about how the water wasn't being brought to the places it was suppose to go. Then he talked about the huts, how some were not that safe, and how everyone only helped on the first one. Then how the littluns aren't taking a short in the right places.
He ended with the talk of the "Beastie" which I knew there was none so I made that point out really quickly. Sometime during that talk all the littluns started to do some lamentation but it died down in a bit. It just sounded like a bunch of discursive nonsense to me.
During the meeting Ralph said how things were falling apart. I don't really think things are falling apart, but the boys aren't listening to Ralph anymore. They are also treating things that have importance to them as if they don't matter. They wander around playing and everything. It seems as if they aren't using decorum toward Ralph anymore. I don't really mind as long as they stay out of my way, and obey when I ask something of them.
Also during the meeting there was a mention of the littluns crying in their sleep. Mostly because of the fear of the beastie getting them. Others have nightmares about the kreepers and such. I think most of them miss their parents and hide it as nightmares when they cry. It's not really my concern though.
There was a particular littlun, Percival Wemys Madison. He tended to through up a lamentation a lot about the beastie. He also seemed to be loosing his mind. Some of the older kids tend to mess with him, others pay no heed. He was one of the littluns that started the whole 'beastie' mess. He was mostly afraid of the kreepers or the beastie getting to him.
Simon asked us what was the dirtiest thing about the human nature during the meeting. The dirtiest thing about the human nature in my opinion is that they are too sensitive to each other. They hold back when they don't need to and they let their emotions sway their opinions. When I hold back the memory stays jeeringly at me, as if I've done something wrong.
I don't particularly like Ralph since he became leader. He isn't doing anything about it, just complaining, and telling us what we aren't doing. He just complains and complains. Especially when I do something that is important, he goes of saying its horrible. If he hadn't of found the conch then he wouldn't have been leader. It would have been me.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Lost hope
Perspective; Ralph
Out of the most of the things that I'm having trouble with adjusting myself to is the working. It feels weird to have almost all the other boys not working and me working my butt off for them. It doesn't seem really fair sometimes but I can't really blame them. This is a beautiful island.
The littluns are doing little to help with setting up life here, but I can't expect much from them. They are small and don't have a very good attention span. They spend their time eating any fruit they can find, bathing, playing with each other, and so many other stuff that I don't know of, I can't watch them all the time.
All the boys left to hunt for pigs and they had painted their faces so that the pigs don't see them. It seems like they are losing control over themselves and reverting to the wild side. They are going mad little by little. When they paint their faces they seem as if they are a totally different group of people.
While the boys were away they left the fire unattended. While a ship passes by the island the fire is out. So there is no smoke for them to see. We could have been saved but they went off for a pig. Then the ship left with out us.
The fire went out because all the boys went off to kill a pig. I mean, yes, I craved the meat too, but it didn't matter to me as much as being saved did. They all left it and it was Jack's fault that they all left. It was also his responsibility to keep it going. When all the boys go all rowdy again I know that I have too call a meeting. It has to bring their attention that their behavior is out of control.
Out of the most of the things that I'm having trouble with adjusting myself to is the working. It feels weird to have almost all the other boys not working and me working my butt off for them. It doesn't seem really fair sometimes but I can't really blame them. This is a beautiful island.
The littluns are doing little to help with setting up life here, but I can't expect much from them. They are small and don't have a very good attention span. They spend their time eating any fruit they can find, bathing, playing with each other, and so many other stuff that I don't know of, I can't watch them all the time.
All the boys left to hunt for pigs and they had painted their faces so that the pigs don't see them. It seems like they are losing control over themselves and reverting to the wild side. They are going mad little by little. When they paint their faces they seem as if they are a totally different group of people.
While the boys were away they left the fire unattended. While a ship passes by the island the fire is out. So there is no smoke for them to see. We could have been saved but they went off for a pig. Then the ship left with out us.
The fire went out because all the boys went off to kill a pig. I mean, yes, I craved the meat too, but it didn't matter to me as much as being saved did. They all left it and it was Jack's fault that they all left. It was also his responsibility to keep it going. When all the boys go all rowdy again I know that I have too call a meeting. It has to bring their attention that their behavior is out of control.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Day by the bathing pool
Perspective; Piggy
We are creating shelters for the little ones and everyone. We are doing this so that we don't have to sleep on the sand and that we are protected form the animals that are out there.
We each had to do a specific job that we were assigned to do. They were to gather supplies, help build the shelters, hunt for food, ECT. The little 'uns and most of the older boys didn't get much done though. We were just hanging around, eating, playing, and bathing.
I think that the most important task for survival is gathering food and such to satisfy ourselves and keep us strong so that we can work more. We don't die from starvation.
Simon is a silent boy that helps a lot though. He faints a lot too which is hindering his work and us to have to help him. He is tan, skinny, and he knows what he is doing.
What do you think will happen on this island if you don’t get rescued soon? On the other hand I think that if we don't get rescued soon then we might go chaotic. Lose ourselves to the wild and never find our way back. More of us might die too, and that wouldn't be good.
The wind is so bitter; it bites at me, mocking me.
The boys they don’t care
They do what ever they please
I’m smart; I know what I am doing
Don’t hate me because I’m fat
Listen to me, I need to be heard
My ideas can help us, maybe even save us
But they don’t care
They just do what they please
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Uh oh
Perspective; Simon
I think that this island is really good for us. Since there is fruits and pigs for us to eat. It also has a bunch of things we could use for shelter and everything like that.
A couple of kids were talking about a beastie. I think its just a really big pig or something along the lines of that. I think it symbolizes that we need to stick together and listen. If we don't then we could get killed by it. I feel a bit threatened by it, I mean it could be real, but there is a chance that it isn't, so I don't really know what to think.
My plan to be rescued is set up something huge that can be seen from far away that says S.O.S or something along the lines of that. If we don't get rescued though, I wouldn't mind staying here for a while. It's really cool here.
How did you start a fire and what happens to the fire? At first we decided to make a fire to signal people if they were looking for us. We gathered a bunch of dead wood and put them on top of the mountain. We didn't have any matches so we pinched piggy's glasses. He complained a lot. We got the fire going and everything but then things went wrong. The sourrounding trees caught on fire and it turned into a huge fire. A little boy w/ a mark on his face was in there, and he died. It was a sad time.
How are you different from all the other boys? Even though all of us sped off to set the fire I know I'm different. If I wasn't so caught up in it all I would have stopped to think this all through. I know I could have saved the little 'uns that died if I had been thinking. I'm not like most of the kids there, I can think things through and do smart things.
When I go to sleep I feel a bit excited about what the next day will hold, but other then that I feel indifferent. I mean,ya, we are on an island, cool, not really a big deal.
I think that this island is really good for us. Since there is fruits and pigs for us to eat. It also has a bunch of things we could use for shelter and everything like that.
A couple of kids were talking about a beastie. I think its just a really big pig or something along the lines of that. I think it symbolizes that we need to stick together and listen. If we don't then we could get killed by it. I feel a bit threatened by it, I mean it could be real, but there is a chance that it isn't, so I don't really know what to think.
My plan to be rescued is set up something huge that can be seen from far away that says S.O.S or something along the lines of that. If we don't get rescued though, I wouldn't mind staying here for a while. It's really cool here.
How did you start a fire and what happens to the fire? At first we decided to make a fire to signal people if they were looking for us. We gathered a bunch of dead wood and put them on top of the mountain. We didn't have any matches so we pinched piggy's glasses. He complained a lot. We got the fire going and everything but then things went wrong. The sourrounding trees caught on fire and it turned into a huge fire. A little boy w/ a mark on his face was in there, and he died. It was a sad time.
How are you different from all the other boys? Even though all of us sped off to set the fire I know I'm different. If I wasn't so caught up in it all I would have stopped to think this all through. I know I could have saved the little 'uns that died if I had been thinking. I'm not like most of the kids there, I can think things through and do smart things.
When I go to sleep I feel a bit excited about what the next day will hold, but other then that I feel indifferent. I mean,ya, we are on an island, cool, not really a big deal.
Monday, September 14, 2009
The Sound Of the Shell
Choir Stand In!
Jack's perspective.
We are on this island that has a efflorescence coral reef that is only on about a half of the island. It is also out in the middle of nowhere and now it has a scar in it from where our plane crashed. We were on our way to a safe place so that the War wouldn't affect us. But our plane crashed when it was attacked, and we don't know if anyone is looking for us. We don't know how long we are going to stay here too.
My name is Jack and I am the leader of the Choir which are now the hunters. I am technically the co-leader of all the boys. Even though the proffer wasn't there I got second place in the vote so I am now the co-leader.
There are no adults on this island, but there was a pilot. Which I'm pretty is dead now. We didn't find any source of life besides the animals on this island, so its probably inhabited.
The leader, Ralph, has a conch. That has the power to call all the boys to a meeting. It is incredulous that he has it. He has the power to control everything that everyone does. I believe that the conch is really important to us, so it shouldn't be in the hands of someone like him. It should be me.
The choirs job is to hunt for food for everyone. I believe that they will not be incredulous on there jobs, since they learned from me.
I feel that I should have been elected as leader since am not a lazy person, so I pay attention to all the intricacies of the forest. I also have a lot of experience in leading people.
I know I said I was looking for an opportunity to strike at the piglet, but I know I wasn't ready to take a life. I felt it was a enormity to kill it and I couldn't. Next time I won't think, I will just strike.
That is all that happened that had importance so far so this is where I am going to end.
Jack's perspective.
We are on this island that has a efflorescence coral reef that is only on about a half of the island. It is also out in the middle of nowhere and now it has a scar in it from where our plane crashed. We were on our way to a safe place so that the War wouldn't affect us. But our plane crashed when it was attacked, and we don't know if anyone is looking for us. We don't know how long we are going to stay here too.
My name is Jack and I am the leader of the Choir which are now the hunters. I am technically the co-leader of all the boys. Even though the proffer wasn't there I got second place in the vote so I am now the co-leader.
There are no adults on this island, but there was a pilot. Which I'm pretty is dead now. We didn't find any source of life besides the animals on this island, so its probably inhabited.
The leader, Ralph, has a conch. That has the power to call all the boys to a meeting. It is incredulous that he has it. He has the power to control everything that everyone does. I believe that the conch is really important to us, so it shouldn't be in the hands of someone like him. It should be me.
The choirs job is to hunt for food for everyone. I believe that they will not be incredulous on there jobs, since they learned from me.
I feel that I should have been elected as leader since am not a lazy person, so I pay attention to all the intricacies of the forest. I also have a lot of experience in leading people.
I know I said I was looking for an opportunity to strike at the piglet, but I know I wasn't ready to take a life. I felt it was a enormity to kill it and I couldn't. Next time I won't think, I will just strike.
That is all that happened that had importance so far so this is where I am going to end.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
What would i do if i was stuck on an island?
Well the things that I would bring would be a bunch of saline to keep the water I drink clean, if I found any water. Another thing is a machete to keep me and my companions safe and to cut things down if I ever need to. The last thing I would bring would some matches to light things faster when needed.
The people that I would bring would be; max haggard because he knows a lot of stuff and is smart like that, Rachel Laundry because she’s my best friend and we have each other to keep company, and some random person that says they’ll come w/ us just for the heck of it.
I think that if we got stranded then we would be on a beach so I would split into groups and go around the beach to see how big it is. Then we meet back on the other side of the island and tell what we found. If there was anything worth investigating then we would go check it out.
If there isn’t anything interesting there then we would go and try and get some water and try to find some food. Also to try and set up a camp just in case we were to stay there for a while. Knowing how long it usually takes we would do those things then we would do things to how much we need it to survive.
I would also try to make a signal fire or something to alert people if they are looking for us. It would have to be pretty big to alert searchers far away but tame too. If we stayed there longer then a week, then I think that I would go crazy or something to be honest. I'm not really a outdoorsy person, and I don’t have that much experience in surviving out in the wilderness other than the books I've read.
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