blog-11 rescued

As our ship cruised toward the island i kept wondering what we would find. we had been patrolling the area looking for enemy. so far we had not found any other ships but then we saw the strange smoke coming from the island. when we got there i stepped out of the boat and started to walk along the beach. The smoke seemed to be coming from a fire that was sweeping across the islands. i could hear wierd ululations in the distance. i could visualize the sounds coming from some strange animal. Probably some king of crazy monkey. the wierdest thing was that i could not figure out what started the fire. there had been no recent lighting that could have struck a tree and our radar would have picked up a projectile launched at the island. then suddenly a young boy heaved himself out of the jungle and fell into the sand. he was wearing tattered clothes and was very dirty. His clothes looked like they were the remaining pieces of a school outfit. then i remembered hearing about a plane full of school boys that was shot down. he must have been a survivor. "are there any adults here?" I asked him. He replied, "no". a few seconds later a bunch more boys came out of the jungle. they were wearing some kind of elaborate paint all over their bodies. I asked them if any died and they said only too. wow, i thought. Being british like me, they should have done better. i told them that and they seemed to cower. well at least they have been saved i thought as i led them too my boat.

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Today we woke up and got ready to go to rock castle. yesterday night jack and a few of the hunters came and attacked us in the night. i kneed on of them pretty good but they stole piggy's glasses, which they came for, and left. Now that we don't have piggy's glasses we cannot start any fires and our hopes of getting rescued are gone. we could not keep the fire going anyway. there were not enough of us. piggy needs his glasses too. Ralph told us that we need to get them back so we set off to go to jacks castle. we decided to take spears and piggy wanted to cary the conch so he brought it to. when we got there they challenged us and asked us who goes there. i think it was supposed to down our spirits but it did not. then jack came out of the jungle. Ralph told him we wanted the glasses back and called him a thief. he got mad and then Ralph and jack fought. they stopped fighting and piggy explained that giving them back was the right thing to do. they didn't listen. rodger started to throw little rocks and one of them almost hit us. it was very frightening watching all this. then rodger releases a huge bolder and it fell down and glanced piggy. he was knocked off the cliff that we had to walk along on the way up. he fell about 40 feet and his head cracked open, spilling his brains out. the waves carried his body away. Ralph told us that that is what we get, and that he is chief. he threw his spear at Ralph and it cut through his side. other hunters started throwing spears and Ralph ran off into the jungle full of fright. they tied us up and forced us to be part of their tribe. they poked us with spears and gave us no choice.

blog-9 the theft

i can't believe this happened. my glasses, they are gone! Everything on this island is getting worse and worse!. just a day ago Simon was murdered. i still can't believe this happened. i know that me and Ralph decided that we were innocent but i still think that it was partially my fault, i mean, i just stood there while everyone chanted and then attacked him. maybe it was his fault for just climbing out of the jungle like that. i thought he was the bloody beast too! As i looked at the phosphorescence on the waves i was reminded of my glasses. i started to cry but when Ralph walked up i stifled my crying. "Ralph," said,"what are we going to do?" He gesticulated and said he didn't know. "remember when we talked about being innocent?" "ya" he replied. "well i think we are actually partially responsible for his death." "we couldn't have helped, "said Ralph,"they would have just smothered us and killed us too." I shuddered just thinking about that. The image of Simon getting murdered kept running through my head. it had been the whole day. now that they have stolen my glasses they might just kill too. just like Simon i thought. now i can barely see and i cannot carry any logs to the fire because of my asthma. am useless. i hope i don't die.

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As i sat there looking at the pig head i got tremulous shivers throughout my body. Flies were covering its face eating away at the roting flesh and yet it still sat there, staring at me. Then it started to talk to me. it said that i was just a silly little boy. it told me was i was not wanted. i knew that this was the beast. and then all of a sudden its mouth got really big and it swallowed me up. i woke up later, lying there in the grass. the pig head was no longer the beast but was now just a pig head. i knew that i had to prove the thing wrong so i went up to the mountain to confront the beast becuase i think there is no beast up there. there is only the beast inside of us that makes us currupt. as i walked up the mountain at a steadfast pace i could see a big shape up there moving. when i got up to the top i saw that it was only a dead man with a parachute on his back. he was stuck on some rocks and the wind would blow back and force filling up and deflating the parachute, making it look like he was rising and folling. i released him and the wind carried him away. wen i look down at the beach i saw there was a fire and it looked like everyone was were jacks tribe is, probaably having a big meeting. i headed down there and walking out of the forest onto the beach. i told hem about the parachutist and for some reason started chanting and then chased me down to the water and killed me. now i am dead.

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blog-4 the paint

Things on this island keep changing. Being chief keeps getting harder and harder. When ever i look at the ocean i see weird things on it. piggy just says that it is light reflecting off the island, but i don't know if i believe him or not. he says it is a mirage like you see in the desert.
As i walked along the bech we suddenly saw a ship and as we looked over to check on the signal fire we could see it was out. i ran up the mountain, leaving piggy behind. he could not run becuase of his asma. I knew the implications of a ship passing by and the fire being out. The clear opalescence of the sky showed that the smoke had been out for a little while. when i got up to were the fire should have been i saw a deserted pile of burned up ashes. it was preposterous that the fire was left to burn out. then i heard chanting and jack came up with his hunters carrying a pig. "we got one!" they shouted. I asked why the fire was out as piggy inredioulusly came up. Jack said they needed the extra people to form a circle. As he said this i noticed that he was covered in paint and how irrevelent it was to being a hunter. "we saw a ship!" piggy shouted in a shrill voice. they kept chanting about the pig and made weird gyrations. I thought they might soon get out of control becuase of their malevolent actions. i told them about the serousnes of what hapened. jack still didn't seem to care. Then i called a meeting own on the beach righ then and there. as i walked down in the dark i heard some of the litle-uns whimpering. they were scared of the beast in the dark.

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jack stopped building his hut and looked up from the glimmering beach. a bewildered jack was walking out of the jungle. He said that he speared a pick but it escaped. he said if he had barbed spears he would have killed it. I wiped a few tendrils away from my face and told him what was on my mind. we needed to build huts. it was a festoon. he tried to give me inscrutable evidence that he could catch a pig soon but i denied it. i was very oppresive. he was trying to fluant me but it didn't work. i gave him a furtive glance. we kept arguing and in the end he was still set on pig hunting.