Tuesday, October 7, 2008

assignment 8

chapter 11 and 12: Run Ralph run!
Im so cold Ralph.  He ignores me and so do the twins.  I can't see either.  I was just making things worse.  We had no fire and just four people left in our tribe.  It was decided that we were going to to get my glasses and talk some sense into Jack.  I am nearly blind without the glasses so that is one of the main reasons that I am going.  We are going to take the conch.  Maybe someone will listen
Every thing is so blurry and i have to rely on tone of the twins to help me walk.  When we got to the entrance I could see feint blurs.  I hear Ralph's conch loud and one of the blob's just calls us idiots and threw a stone at my foot.  Now a big blob came up from the jungle with a dead pig.  Ralph walks up to Jack and is told to leave.  Ralph stands up for me about the glasses.  Than he took it too far.  He called Jack a thief.  Than Jack replied by telling the hunters to take Sam and Eric's weapons and than take them away to castle rock.  I am left with no one to hold onto.  I am now crouching.  Now Ralph and Jack are fighting again.  I than hear a crack and than I see a huge brown blob fall from the mountain.  I think for a little. I am yelling and yelling over the ululation of the savages.  I figure out that the thing jolting the earth was a huge rock and I get up to get out of the way but I was too late I felt a smash against my chest and than it all went black.  
What is this? I was dead.  That was for sure. I now have a bird's eye view of the whole island and i could tell exactly what was going on.  I looked at Ralph and Jack fighting.  I saw myself on the floor dead.  Jack hurled a spear at Ralph's chest and it went in.  This was not good although it came out.  He started to run and the hunter's threw spears at him.  He managed to dodge and run.  He than disappeared into the jungle.


Ralph has been hidden.  He began to walk and came across  a pig's skull on a stick.  He took the skull and beat it till it cracked in ferocity.  He took the spear.  It was sharpened at both ends.  He than snook up on castle rock.  He saw Roger sharpen a spear at both ends.  I knew what this meant and I hope he did too.  He than sneaks up on the captured Sam and Eric.  They were both on guard duty.  He sneaked up and scared them.  They kept telling him something to leave and he was signaling that wanted them to come with me but they refused.  They gave him meat and than he left.  He ran to a thicket.  It seemed like Sam and Eric had some inside information.  I wonder if Sam and Eric are being forced to do this or have they joined Jack's clan.  
Ralph than, seeming scared, ran towards a place on the island that i have never been or see before.  It was a great hiding spot.  This was probably where Simon would walk at night.  Ralph has been talking to himself lately.  In the morning The boys were yelling all along the island.  I looked to see and they were going to go across the island like a huge rake, like a cordon.  They had swept most of the island and now they were here.  All of a sudden Roger and Jack grabbed Sam and Eric and beat them till they said something and rite when they talked Jack and Roger lit the whole island on fire.  They wanted Ralph dead.  It became to smokey to be in the thicket.  He jumped out and charged the cordon.  He managed to break through the cordon.   He got far before the group started to follow him.  He would keep going to new hiding spots as they got closer.  I look out on the ocean and I see a ship.   If only i could have stayed alive for just one more day i would have made it.  I hope Ralph gets through.  The Ship is headed for the island.  It sees the smoke.  I have to find out if it is british or not.  I look around and finally on the bow of the ship there is a British flag.  I watch it go in and dock.  I totally remember about Ralph being in trouble and i try to find him.  This is not good.  I wait 20 more seconds.  THe ship has docked and sent out little boats to bring back whoever is on the island.  Finally Ralph pops out onto the sand rite in front of the captain.  Ralph is saved and all the other boy's come out onto the beach and are amazed at what they see.  Ralph was saved and brought back to Britain. 

Sunday, October 5, 2008

assignment #7

chapter 9 and 10: Just me and animals now

Yes, Piggy we must go.  "Why?" Piggy exclaimed.  I am very hungry and I don't feel like having fruit.  Also, we need to be able to know what's happening.  "Yes,  you never know what Jack Merridew will do," Piggy said in a scared voice.  Piggy and I arrive at Castle Rock and everyone is already eating.  We are welcomed and everyone is having fun; yelling, screaming, dancing and acting barmy.  The next thing I know, I'm having fun with them.  At the end when everyone was having fun and done with their dinner, Jack invited whoever wasn't already in his tribe to be in it.  I immediately stopped the fun.  I tried to say something but there was so much commotion. I saw what he was doing.  Right after we all had a great time he decides to strike.  Now it was just Piggy and me.  "Ralph,  I think something bad is going to happen  Let's go back before someone gets hurt," Piggy said in a frightened voice.  

Later, I am dancing and singing like a savage on the outskirts of the dancing circle.  All of a sudden I hear Simon.  He is acting like an animal.  He made himself look corpulent. It seems as though everyone except Piggy and I don't know it is him.  This is bad. What if they don't realize it is him? What if they think he is a beast?  I yell but even though the masks are on their face, they cover their ears.  When they have those masks on they seem impervious to the outside world.  

As Simon came down, the other boys started attacking him.  I yelled and yelled but no one was listening.  They were destroying him.  They seemed like packs of wolves attacking a harmless animal and I could do nothing to stop it.  Simon glanced at me in his last second of life. All of a sudden there was a roar of thunder and the boys scatter to their huts.  I give one last look at poor Simon along with Piggy and we both run back.  

Piggy and I know Simon is dead.  You don't need to bring back memories.  They didn't know it was him.  After all he was acting like an animal.  It's not our fault.  "I know, but I just feel bad for poor Simon," Piggy said in sorrow.  Let's just forget about this.  Sam and Eric and a few littluns appear.  It was a murder but I was glad, for he was purged from this horrible island.  It was a long day.  Mostly we were trying to keep the fire going.  It was very hard and it was sunset.  We went to our huts.  
"Huh? what is that? "I don't know," answered Piggy.  Screaming was heard in the distance.  It was getting closer and closer.  All of a sudden three boys jumped into our hut and we were fighting.  The hut broke.  Piggy went to save the conch.  Like anyone cared anyway.  It was all dark and they were gone.  Piggy's glasses were gone, too.  They were going to use the glasses to light a fire.  We didn't understand.  We could have given them fire if they wanted it. Now Simon was dead and we couldn't build another fire .