Chapter 5

Lord of the Flies

Chapter 5: Beast from Water

"Sissy cry babies"

Perspective: Jack

Dear Diary,

I am ready to rip Ralph's head off. Just because he is the chief, does NOT mean that he is in charge of me and what I do. Having food is very important and if he has an issue with that he can go short himself. Another thing is all these rules that he's making. I mean come on, we live on an island without adults and any rules and then he goes and makes these pointless rules and expects us to follow them.

Oh and don't forget that he's trying to scare the littleuns into believing in the beast. Ya, so whatever even if there is a beast, me and the Hunters will track it down and we'll kill it. We'll have a nice dinner and then no one will be scared. I don't care if the kids are scared, I like it but the fact is that they are bunch of sissy babies and just cry and cry and cry. Thank goodness for Maurice or they'd still be crying right now.

Ralph is in way to much control. Whenever he wants to have a meeting, we have to drop whatever we are doing and go to the platform. I understand that it's important to have order on our island but we're in the middle of things. Why do we have to stop? Ralph called a meeting while it was dark and we all went to the platform. Ralph made all these new bogus rules very clear to us; the fire can't leave the mountain which I think is retarded because what if we happen to catch a pig that is to big for us to carry, we can't move the fire, we have to leave the pig. Another rule is that we have to only use a little area as our restroom. We are boys on an island without any rules. Why can't we take a short whenever and wherever we want?? These rules are ridiculous. This is our island. We are supposed to have fun and make with the time we have here. We could be here till tomorrow or we could be here till we die. We never know but I want to do whatever I want to do and don't want some kid with a conch to tell me what to do.

The littleuns on our island have been really annoying lately. They cry in their sleep every single night. They whimper or ball their eyes out. I don't know what has gotten into them and don't care but I want it to stop soon. It's starting to seem that something actually might be on the island with us, maybe it's a beast maybe not. I'm not totally sure but I'm starting to think that maybe it's the cause of the littleuns sleepless nights. There's this boy named Percival something something and it seems like he is the leader of the little annoying kids. We found him mumbling to himself and it really freaked me out. Is there like an evil spirit of some sort? No, that's not possible though. I wonder what is wrong with the kid. Well I don't really care unless it somehow effects me.

Whatever. Gonna go yell at Ralph some more.

~Jack