LOTF Chapter 4

Lord of the Flies
CHAPTER 4: PAINTED FACES AND LONG HAIR
"Death of the Pig"
Perspective: Jack

Dear Journal,
Today was an awesome day. This day was way harder to live in this island then it is in England. Then the littleuns don’t even do anything. They just play and eat fruit. The littleuns where very blatant. I think they should do something instead of letting us four boys do everything. Today was the day I was going to kill a pig. I needed to feel powerful in the group and also important. So I put war paint on my face. I thought the reason why I couldn’t catch the pig was because he can smell me. I was going to be as belligerence as I can to kill that pig. My boys and I went out hunting. I saw a dark shadow the crept beneath Roger’s swarthiness skin. There was the pig running with his friends. One got hit by the spear and ran back. My hunters and I got into a circle and moved in on it. I was having them chant, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat.” We get back to the camp and Ralph and Piggy tell me that they see a ship and we need to go and see if the fire is still going. First piggy starts complaining about me and my hunter’s maturity. So I slap him in the face and his specs fly off and break. While he was going to get them Simon got them for him. I grabbed them and look at me malevolently. It like Piggy is impalpable when people touch him. He is one of the biggest babies I have ever seen. We run to the fire and we found out that is it down. Ralph goes ballistic and starts yelling at me. He tells me that it was my fault because it was my responsibility. I apologize for that but I didn’t want to apologize to Piggy. Ralph gets Piggy’s specs and starts to make the fire again. We roast the pig that I got and of course there was a problem. I didn’t give any of it to Piggy because I didn’t think he deserved it, but Simon is so nice and he gives his to Piggy. So I take some of the meat and throw it at Piggy and told him to eat it. Ralph then has declared that there was going to be another meeting.