Lord of the Flies, Chapter 8

Gift for the Darkness
Anarchy

That was a pretty heated argument between Ralph and Jack. Ralph shouldn't have insulted Jack's hunters. Now Jack is pissed off at Ralph, and decided to leave our tribe. Jack may be demoniac, but like it or not we need him. Jack organized the hunters for us. And he caught a pig for us so that we could eat meat. But now that he is gone, what the hell are we supposed to do? Jack organized hunting and who would be on fire watch. Maurice and Roger left with Jack, so that is three biguns that left. Simon is nowhere to be found, so that is four biguns gone. All the littluns do is cry and whine. And I know that Ralph does not want to deal with that crap right now.

Jack only called that stupid meeting, because he was hoping that everybody would take his side, but they most definitely did not. Jack was being a jerk about it too. He was talking about how everybody should vote him for chief because he was stupid school prefect and he could sing. Jack has no demure. All he does is brag. Jack really has to work on his people skills. I must admit though, that was pretty funny when nobody voted Jack as leader. I'm glad I did not start laughing. That would've been the end of me.

Saving...

Ever since Jack left, his name has been a taboo. Everybody just refers to Jack as "him", or "you know". What is kind of odd though, is that he just left today. I can tell you one thing. I sure as heck ain't gonna miss 'em! What was cool though, is that after he left, there was nobody pickin' on me. And because nobody interrupted me when I was speaking at the meeting, we now have another signal fire on the beach and don't have to risk our necks going up to where the beast is.

When Jack raided our camp and took some of our fire, he said that they caught a pig and were going to have a feast and that we were welcome to come. At first my mouth started to water, but then I pictured the poor, old paunched pig, cooking over a fire with those savages celebrating and jumping around it. It makes me sick to my stomach. Jack is just an animal. He never knows when to stop. And what's worse, is that now he has all of the littluns begging Ralph to let them go to the feast. Not only was Jack trying to get fire to cook the pig, but he's trying to get more followers. What is scary is that if he gets enough, the rest of us will be forced to join because we won't be able to take care of ourselves. I sure do hope that it does not come down to that.