LOTF Chapter 2

Lord of the Flies Chapter 2 –
Fire on the Mountain
"Beastie?"
Perspective: Piggy

Dear Journal,
Today was another bad day on this rediculous island. I think somebody should knock Jack in the head with that conch. He is always telling me to shut up. I had the conch in my hand and that means only I can talk and he still tells me to shut up, but thanks to Ralph for backing me up. I sometimes wonder if Jack is errant to his parents. Anyways, we met this martyred kid with a mulberry mark on his face. He thinks he saw some snake thing called a beastie the night before. But to keep us from being frighten the older kids told us he just had a nightmare. Which now I bet I will be very scared when I go to bed. Thanks to Ralph and his good ideas he told us to make fire and the way you do that is first to get a fire. He thinks that his dad my come or some ships might come to rescue them. Everybody was capering so they ran to the center of the mountain, but like my childish and stupidity ways I start to whine of virtuous recrimination. The boys gather up some dead wood and used my lenses to make a fire. They got a big fire but it died down fast. So I tried to motivate them by telling them that if you want to get of the island you need to work harder. So Ralph told me to come up where he was and he pinch my specks. I wasn’t very happy that he did that. Jack then says that him and his hunter group were going to be responsible for the fire. I get angry because of the groups reckless disorganization and tell them that one of the littlest boys was playing by the fire. It was the little boy that was talking about the beastie.