Dear Diary,
What happened today amazing. The hunters actually decided to go after Ralph. After he and Piggy went to the Castle Rock to make reason with the hunters, Ralph lost all of the people in his part of the tribe. Poor Piggy got hit by a boulder, and Samneric joined Jack's savage tribe. So it was Jack, all by himself, trying to avoid the hunters. After the conclusion of the fight at Castle Rock, the hunters moderately chased Ralph through the forest. Eventually, he found the spot where I had found the Lord of the Flies. It was reduced to just a skull when Ralph had found it, but it had the stupid devilish grin. It was still there, hanging on it's double sided stick.
Eventually, Ralph had decided to look a little bit at Jack's tribe, but sees that Samneric are keeping watch. He decided to try and convince them to come back to his tribe, but they had decided not to stay with him. I believe that they are only just staying with Jack's tribe out of fear, not to have Ralph's fate. If they had stayed with Ralph, they would have been toast. I'll talk about "toasting" later. Sam was reluctant to not tell Jack about the arrival of Ralph, but Eric was giving much more warning. Eventually, Sam gave Ralph some meat. Poor Ralph had to escape the tribe. They're all insane. They've already killed 2 people, good thing it didn't become three.
Roger has prepared something terrible for Ralph. He's made a two sided spear. Earlier, I had talked about how the Lord of the Flies had been hanging on a stick. That had been a horrible sight, to see the pigs empty eyes and it's jeering grin. To imagine what would happen if that had happened to Ralph, that would be terrible! To see that lifeless head on the stick would be terrible. Roger is worse than Jack in the long run. Jack has more sense than Roger. Roger is the one that actually killed Piggy. He mostly killed me with all of the other kids. To imagine that one kid could more than three other living souls, that's terrible.
The toasting I was talking about earlier, was how Jack was trying flush Ralph out of the thicket he was hiding in. After they had rolled a boulder in to the thicket, they decided the only way to get Ralph out of his hiding spot was using fire. When they had tried to enter, Ralph had easily been able to attack them, without them even knowing it. They had ended burning up most of the island, all the way to the beaches. Good thing that it had made so much smoke, because if they had burned the whole island without making any smoke, the thing that Ralph had found on the beach wouldn't have gotten to them.
What was on the beach was actually a Naval Officer. I told Jack that he would get back. I feel sorry for that Naval Officer. To see all of the British boys with spears, he just thought that they were playing around, but when he asked if anyone had been killed, he had been surprised when Ralph had said that they actually had lost 2 boys. They had actually lost 3. The mulberry birth marked kid that we had only met the first couple days had already been lost the first couple of days.
Jack had stopped in his tracks when he had finally seen the Naval Officer. He at least had the decency to not keep trying to attack Ralph. When the Officer had asked who was the leader in the group he had almost stepped up in the role, but Ralph had said that he was. At least Jack didn't say that he was the leader. I don't understand why Ralph took the blame for what had happened on the island. I would think that Ralph wouldn't say that, after the conversation he had with Piggy about my murder.
Percival couldn't even remember his own name. That time that he was trying to speak in the assembly and he couldn't say anything, he just kept on repeating his name, over and over again. I think that really makes a point, that even someone like Percival, can even forget something as simple as a name in a time of savagery. It takes the most out of a man, no rules makes him lose his sanity. The loss of sanity can make you really realize that even simple things are hard to keep in your mind.
The officer was very disappointed in the whole group. With my death, along with Piggy's, he was wondering how "proper" British boys could lose the thoughts of rules and society in just a few weeks. I wish that they would have just realised what I was trying to say before I had, gone away. The only disease that follows man-kind every where is the loss of rules when they're no longer enforced. The loss of the thing in our minds that tells what's right and what's wrong. When you loose it, all hell breaks loose.
At least what I said is true. I told Ralph: "You'll get back."
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