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