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 .

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