Rdg Posts #2 9-23-08

Jacks journal.

This morning we were called for a meeting. Ralph must have had an idea, a stupid one at that. We finally start the meeting. Ralph tells us if you want to talk you have to have the conch. With that said I knew these meetings would be full of ebullience. Then that errant Piggy starts his stupid speech. He's telling us how know one on the island knows we are here and we could be here forever. Then a boy with a mulberry birth mark on his face started talking about a monster something he saw the night before, he called it the beastie. The older boys knew there was no beastie, so we induced him to think there isn't a beastie he was just dreaming. Then Ralph comes up with the idea that we should build a fire. So I get the conch and ask where would you build this fire, you can't just start building random fires on the island. Ralph tells us the central mountain top would be the best place. So then it started to become a good idea. So we went to the central mountain top, found our place and gathered wood. So then we tried to start the fire and nothing was working then we thought we burn it with some type of magnyfing glass, then I saw Piggy's specks and I pinched them. So we start the fire and it's starting to turn out great, until it dies down. We trying to make another fire but we accidentally set the trees on fire. Then Piggy starts talking about the boy with the mulberry birth mark had been playing in the fire and was now missing. We were all shocked, ashamed, and sad. We hoped he wasn't martyred and burning, but we knew he was dead.