Third Journal entry

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This is when jack broke my glasses.

Dear Journal,

I have never been so scared in my life, nor have I been alone for this long. Can we just be rescued already? I miss my auntie and I miss the food that she makes and I miss being safe. When we first landed on this island I thought that it was going to be nice and peaceful, well I was wrong. I was so used to the fighting with the war going on back home that I was ready to be somewhere else. I think I would love it here if I had my auntie with me, she would know what to do and how to comfort me when I am in distress. Now I am starting to wonder if we will ever be saved and if we will see our families again. Hopefully we will soon, I don’t know how much longer I can take all of this. A lot of people seem to make fun of me because of the way I look. I cannot help the way that I look; at least auntie will always love me. Jack always picks on me and makes fun of me; he even broke my glasses. Only if he didn’t have a say in anything and wasn’t on this island with us. When I was asking the boys for their name jack said, “Shut up fatty you talk too much.” It hurts, but then I think about being saved and having my auntie with me and then it all gets better. Whenever he tries to bring me down I just think what goes around comes around, he will get his share. I am glad that I at least have Ralph, I always help him come up with ideas and I always help him make decisions for the group. I know that he needs me and I for sure need him, only if he would stand up to Jack and tell him to stop hurting my feelings. I know things will get better in due time, I just have to get through this with the help of my friends. I cannot wait till the day that I see my auntie again.            

4th Entry

The Journal

Journal,

             This is Ralph, I found Piggy’s journal lying on the ground near Castle Rock. Piggy passed away yesterday and I feel like I should continue writing in this journal just for him. I read the other pages he has written and I feel awful, now I wish I stood up to Jack for him. Piggy probably felt horrible about himself and I had no idea what was going on. I knew that Jack picked on him; I just had no clue what it was doing to him mentally. Piggy was a great helper; I couldn’t of done all of this without his help. He had faith in me and I had faith in him since we landed on this island. I know that we are going to be rescued; I just have this feeling that someone will come over our way and see us on this dreadful island. I actually really want to go home, I cannot stand Jack’s group and the way they treat everyone on this island. They make everyone feel bad about themselves and Roger is out of control. They way Roger treated the littluns and how he knocked down all of their sand castles was just awful. Maybe Jack and his group should just stay on this island when someone comes to rescue us; they deserve to suffer for everything that they have done. I have never met anyone like Jack in my life. He is so rude, disrespectful, and he is cocky. Only if he didn’t act the way that he does, maybe he would be a really nice guy. I am trying to stay away from them as much as I can so he won’t kill me. I think I hear him coming, I have to go hide but I will try to write later if i can. 

Second Journal Entry

Dear Journal,

      I am so afraid of being here all alone on this island only if my auntie knew where I was and could come save me. Today after the explorers came back Ralph sounds the conch shell, summoning that there is another meeting on the beach. After we all gather he tells the group that whoever is in possession of the conch shell they may talk at the meetings. When I got the couch shell I told the group that no one has a clue that we are stuck on this island, and that it might be a long time till we are rescued. No one liked the thought of that, then this little boy told us a story about what he saw the night before and called it a “beastie” or a monster. No one believed him, but I did. I have no doubt that there is a monster on this island; it is dark and lonely out here. Ralph thought about the idea of being rescued and tells the group that they are going to build a large signal fire on the top of the islands mountain so that any ships that are going by might notice them. Everyone was excited about the idea and rushed off to the mountain while Ralph and I stayed back. I was telling him about how childish the group is and how stupid they are, only if he would listen to me. After the boys collected a mound of dead wood they used my lenses of my glasses to focus sunlight to set the wood on fire. They managed to get the fire going but then it died down. Then Jack said that he would be responsible for the fire and while doing so his group set a swamp of trees on fire. Half of the forest burned down and we lost a boy.  After loosing one of the littluns Ralph and Simon agreed to work on huts for them to live in. These huts are supposed to keep them safe from the outdoors. The littluns love the huts and play outside most of the day, only if life was easy I would enjoy it much more. I really would just like to go home and be safe and sound where I belong.

Before fire

After fire

 

                                                                                                                               

Piggy's First Journal Entry

Dear Journal,

            Today Ralph and I were evacuated from school because of the war. We were told to get on a plane and that the pilot was going to take us somewhere safe and sound, although our plane was shot down. At that moment I had no clue if we were going to make it or not. We ended up landing on a deserted island, trying to figure out a way that we can be rescued. Ralph and I found a conch shell on the beach, we used it to gather all of the boys that were on the plane. As soon as everyone was assembled we decided we needed a leader for the group, we all chose Ralph.  Another boy named Jack was appointed to leading the group of hunters, they would provide us with food every day. Ralph, Jack, and Simon went on an expedition to explore the island; while they went to look around they put me in charge of taking everyone’s name. Ralph put me in charge of this so that we have an idea of who is here and if anyone turns up missing we could tell right away who it is. Ralph was thinking of ways we could get a ships attention, then he came up with a signal fire. The boys used my eyeglasses to ignite the dead wood by focusing the sunlight through them. They boys stopped paying attention to the fire for a while and it got out of hand, before we all knew it half of the forest burned down. One of our boys from the group came up missing. Most of us believe that he was killed in the wild fire, but we are still searching for him. We still have yet to find him, but in the mean time Ralph has decided that he wants to build huts for shelter, the huts would protect the little boys from the weather conditions and keep them safe. Ralph believed that if he built them then the little children wouldn’t come up missing, so we tried it. I don’t mind having Ralph as the leader of our group, he seems to keep us in line and he seems to now what he is doing. Hopefully we will be rescued soon so we don’t have to suffer much longer.

- Piggy