Fear from fear

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.