Lord Of The Flies; Chapter 5 - Beast From Water

Lord Of The Flies; Chapter 5 – Beast From Water
“Fear Causes Destruction”
Ralph

Dear Journal,
I believe that today was the worst day on the island. Jack left the fire out when a ship passed by for a stupid pig! So I called a meeting. I announced that the meeting was not for fun, but to make things straight. We talked about many things like how jobs weren’t getting done. We talked about how people said fresh water they will bring by a coconut shell, and they didn’t anymore. The lamentation was too much when we talked about the boy with a mulberry mark on his face. We think he’s dead. It seemed that the whole island was breaking up. I think it’s because of fear. We even talked about the “beastie” then this kid, Percival Wemsy Madison, he said the beast comes out of the water. I feel that all these concerns are very important. Unfortunately others don’t think so. Like the ludicrous idea of a beastie seems to annoy tempestuous Jack, He even got mad at the little ones for jeeringly playing, and not working. I was shocked! It felt like Jack’s personality has changed. It’s like he lives up to his incantation of killing pigs. It was barbaric the way he talked to the small ones, shouting at them just for being fearful. He didn’t even have the conch. He reminded me of what Simon said, “What is the dirtiest thing there is”, I think it is our nature to be selfish and fend for ourselves only.