LOTF Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters

Dear diary,

The first place I decided to hide was a meadow, it was nice and peaceful, but i felt some evil. I then noticed the pig's head. When I went up to castle rock to find them, they told me I should leave because it wasn't safe for me there. They told me that Jack and Roger were going to hunt for me. Their signal would be a ululation, and that's how I would know when they were coming. They also told me that he "Sharpened a stick at both ends". At first I was confused about what he meant, but then I remembered the pig's head on the stick, that spear was sharpened at both ends. One end was in the ground, and the other was the head. They gave me meat from their feast, then told me to go hide.

Sam and Eric were forced to join Jack's tribe. They didn't want to, but Jack made them. Roger was planning to make a cordon across the whole island until they found me. I then decided to hide in the thicket beneath castle rock.. I chose to hide there because they would never look to find me that close. The only people I told that I was hiding there was Sam and Eric. But, when Jack and Roger found out i was hiding there, they tried everything to diddle me out of the bush. They knew that when they pushed the boulder on Piggy, it bounced once on the thicket i was in. So, they started pushing big rocks off the cliff, to see if they would hit me. When they didn't hit me, they burned the bush. I ran out onto the beach, and i found something.

I looked up and saw a white drill and epaulettes, and I knew we were finally safe. We had been rescued. Jack appeared on the beach holding his knife and spear, and Percival tried to speak and tell the officer his name, but all he said was "I'm, I'm,". When the officer asked if there were any adults on the island and who was in charge, I told him I was. He was really disappointed in all of us, because he expected us to act better, and he was really upset that two people were murdered.

- Ralph

Chapter 11: Castle Rock

1. In the beginning of the chapter, Piggy tells Ralph to call a meeting with the conch. Ralph laughed truculently and refused to.

2. Piggy decides to go over to castle rock and ask politely for his glasses back. He is not going to force, but he knows that it would be the right thing to do for Jack to give him his glasses back, so he just lets him know that.

3. Ralph want to go over to castle rock looking proper. he wants to bathe, and comb his hair, and look like his group has order. Sam and Eric want to force it.

4. When the boys arrive at castle rock, Roger challenges them at the entry.

5. When Jack appears, he is carrying a headless sow; he just got back from hunting.

6. Ralph starts calling Jack a thief, and that starts a fight. All the boys then got delirious.

7. After the fight, Sam and Eric got forced to join Jacks tribe.

8. During Piggy's speech, Roger was throwing rocks and stones at him. There was some cessation, but then Piggy began to talk again.

9. The person I think is most responsible for Piggy's death is Roger. I think that because nobody ever told him to push the rock off the cliff, he just did it himself. And he was also throwing rocks and stones at Ralph, Sam, Eric, and Piggy. He also crushed the talisman, the conch shell, while killing Piggy with the rock.

Chapter 10: The Shell and the Glasses

Dear journal,

I'm looking over Ralph and Piggy, they are talking about my death. Piggy thinks it was an accident. Ralph thinks it was murder. They weren't included in it, they were just watching, they were afraid. It was mostly Jack and the hunters, because they thought I was the beast. Piggy also thinks it is my fault. He says I'm batty, me running out of the forrest like I did. They are all like savages, they should have been calm, instead of wild. They didn't even stop to see who it was who was running out of the forrest. They just had such an urge to kill, they went ahead and attacked me.

I was also listening to Jack, and he made some new rules. He also tied Wilfred up. And his group and hunters think the beast was in disguise as me. Thats why they attacked me. They also raided Ralph and Piggy's camp. They had paint on their faces, and spears, and they stole Piggy's glasses. There was a big fight, lots of kicking and hitting and yelling. It was all so violent.

They needed his glasses to make fire, and Ralph knows that they should have just asked, and they would have given them the glasses. Ralph now thinks Jack is a thief. Ralph wants order, so he just wants to go over to castle rock and ask politely to get Piggy's glasses back. But Sam and Eric want to force them to give them back.

-Simon, from above.