Water Beast? We're All Batty

As you might have imagined, Jack made a fire to cook the pig. Those savage, batty boys reenacted their hunt and danced around the fire like animals celebrating their prey. Their ritual was kind of scary; maybe they are the beasts; who kills a living thing? Anyway, it was the first time I had the chance to eat meat since we arrived here, I just couldn’t waste my opportunity and I’m sick and tired of fruit as I am of Jack and his hunters. I’ll make an assembly, everything’s wrong and I don’t want it to be that way.

I blow the conch like usual and the sound of it makes me feel a little better. Its whistle means order and civilization; that is who we are, after all we are English. But our perfection has decreased to something way beyond wildness and stupidity. 1) No one understands the importance of the fire and the fact that we need it going. 2) We need to finish building the shelters. 3) We need clean water supplies. 4) This island is getting dirty, where are the sanitation measures we agreed on? It has been a disorder and it can’t continue that way. Other than this, I talk about something that has been stuck in my mind forever, it seems –the fear we all have; fear for death and for the beastie. We are all scared and it’s noticeable. Jack claims that there is no such thing and that if there is we should just get used to it. In the other hand, Piggy says there is only the fear of people. I don’t really know whom to believe now because then two littleuns –Percival is one of them- come to the platform saying that there is a beast, that they have seen it, and it comes out of the ocean at night. Really guys? I do not believe in the beast –I’ve stated that many times- but what about all this? Is it nightmares or lies?  Simon thinks that the beast is only us. Seriously? Now, I am totally confused. This island has made us all batty.  

The worst part is Jack’s behavior; not only his savagery but the way he treats everyone and me: the chief. I need him but I also need Piggy and Simon; he crosses the line with Piggy and I can't let Piggy be terated that way. He has hst him and broken his glasses already. He doesn’t want to follow my rules either and I think I should just give the whole leadership thing aside; maybe he should lead. For some reason, Piggy and Simon don’t let me do that. Maybe I’m batty too –stupid island!

- Ralph