Blog #4 (Chapter 5 Lord of the Flies)

Chapter 5: The assembly
Piggy’s Journal

Ralph has just called an assembly but before he started the assembly he went somewhere, he seemed worried.

After he came back the assembly started. I decided to just stand there and don’t say anything because if I did then probably Jack would shut me up or punch me. Ralph started saying rules and things that we should follow. Like he said that we should keep the signal fire going so that we could be rescued and that if we wanted to cook something in the fire we were supposed to take our food to the fire and don’t bring part of the fire down because then the island could get on fire. Another rule was that we were supposed to just use the designated toilet area when we needed to go to the bathroom, the littluns smiled jeeringly. Its ludicrous how some of the boys don’t even respect the designated toilet area.

Then Ralph talked about how to solve the problems. At the end when Ralph was almost going to finish the assembly he started to talk about the beastie. Suddenly, a boy stood up at first he was an effigy of sorrow, but then the lamentation rose out of him. The kid started talking about his nightmares. After the kid stop talking Jack began fighting with Ralph. Jack always wants to be the center of attention. After a while the assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter. Well after all the boys left, Simon, Ralph, and I were the only ones left. Ralph told me and Simon that he wanted to stop been leader. I told him that he shouldn’t because if he did then Jack would become the leader and if Jack became the leader he would do anything to bother me because he hates me. When we were all going to go to sleep the sound of a littlun crying echoed along the beach.