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Chapter Seven

All of the Biguns have gone off to go hunt the beast. They had an assembly last night. Jack didn’t want to leave anybody to watch us. But Ralph said “What about the littluns?”(101) and argued. They left Piggy here to guard us. I wish they hadn’t gone. Jack and the hunters are the only ones that make me feel safe. I don’t think they can kill the beast. I don’t know what we’re going to do. I want to go home. But Piggy says I can’t. I wish he wouldn’t. The boy with the mulberry birthmark got to leave. Why didn’t he tell anybody else how to get out of here? I want to go home. Ralph keeps saying to keep the fire from going out. So we’ll get rescued. But Jack doesn’t want to. I don’t care about the fire. I just want to go home.

Chapter Eight

All the Biguns came back. They said they saw the beast. Jack called a meeting and said Ralph was no good. He wanted to be the chief. But nobody raised their hands, so I didn’t either. Jack got real mad. He ran off down the beach. Ralph decided we were gonna make a fire down by the beach now. It was Piggy’s idea. He said “We got no fire on the mountain. But what’s wrong with a fire down here? A fire could be built on them rocks.”(Golding 129) Everybody ran to get wood, but while we were gone, most of the Biguns ran away. I didn’t know where they went so I played in the woods near the fire. It started to get really scary though. It got real dark and started to lightning. Then something really scary happened. A bunch of hunters came out of the woods and started yelling. I ran into the jungle and hid. I heard Jack saying that they had caught a pig and were having a feast. After everybody had gone, I went down the beach to join the feast.

Chapter Nine It’s still thundering, but I feel real safe now. Jack and the hunters caught a pig and started a fire. Then they cooked it and gave some to everybody. Everybody was having fun and I had good food for the first time in a while. Pig is much better than fruit, especially if fruit is all that you’ve eaten over the past few weeks. Then Ralph and Piggy show up. I feel a bit bad about leaving them. Ralph is chief after all. He tries to talk to Jack, and they get food too. But then it started raining, and he said something really scary. He said “Going to be a storm, and you’ll have rain like when we dropped here. Who’s clever now? Where are your shelters? What are you going to do about that?” (Golding 151) I was real scared again. But then Jack shouted and we all started to do the hunting dance! It was real fun, but then the beast came out of the woods! We killed it though. I think. Jack says it will still come back.

Chapter Ten Everybody moved to castle rock. It feels real safe there. Jack knows everything. Tomorrow we’ll have another feast, Jack says! I’m really glad he’s leader. He even knows what to do if the beast shows up. He makes sure to leave the head of every pig he kills for the beast. He says “We’d better keep on the right side of him, anyhow. You can’t tell what he might do.” He’s totally right. He says that he’s gonna go steal some fire from the old camp with Roger and Maurice. I hope he comes back soon.