Rdg Post #3 9/23/08

Ralph's journal

Today has been a bad day. It started off with with Jack trying to catch a pig we went deep into the woods chasing it but he didn't catch it. So I keep trying to build the huts but they keep falling before they are done. The vicissitudes of building these huts were unbearable. I go and try to find help and all people do is give excuses and all the hunters do is use hunting as an excuse. The hunters aren't contrite about not being able to help me. It seems as if Jack is rapt in hunting and nothing else. The huts are starting to become opaque with holes in the roofs and walls. Then Simon wonders off into the jungle alone. So he must be doing something mysterious. Simon also helps the littluns get fruit from the tendrils. Overall this day hasn't been going to well. The next morning I here the littluns talking about the beastie and how they are scared and think it is around at night. Then Roger and Maurice decide it would be funny to stomp on a sand castle the littluns had built and throw rocks at them. Even though they didn't hit the littluns, it was still wrong. Then Piggy and I are sitting on the beach and on the horizon we see a ship. We get so excited and we think we will get rescued and leave the island. Then we notice that the signal fire is out. So we didn't get rescued, and it was all the hunters fault for not watching the fire. So the hunters come back bloody and chanting a weird song. They are holding a dead pig on a stake. Angry I go up to Jack and yell at him for being irresponsible and letting the fire burnout. Then Jack starts making fun of Piggy for his baby complaining voice. After that mockery, I had to have a talk with. After I talked to him he took responsibility for the fire but he never apologized to Piggy. I knew I had to have a assembly.