Cry of The Hunters

Dear Mother.

Chpater 12

Well, today was the day of the hunt, not for pigs, but for me. Let me recall what happened yesterday. Yesterday, I went on a mission to find Samneric. It turned out that Samneric were joining the dark side and that I was on my own. They wished me luck and set me of, they said it was for my own good and they gave me some meat to. I told them where I was hiding, and I hoped they were still good and lead jack away from me. I hoped to diddle them. A day passed and I was still hiding in the brush, a stick sharpened and both ends? What could that mean?

I heard them make a cordon, and were combing through the forest by now. But they weren't making a cordon they were looking for me! Samneric must have told Jack! I heard a rock coming down the cliff they must be trying to scare me out, it wouldn't work. The rock hit me and I bit my finger so I wouldn't scream and then they would know where I was. There was only one other rock that they could possibility move, and that was a size of a small cottage. They then lit the forest and tried to burn me out. I meet a savage and bowled over him and was on the run again.

I meet a few savages and they didn't stay in my way. I made my way to the beach, there was a naval officer his coat was covered in epaulettes, and white drills on his coat. We were finally saved! Perceval approached the officer and was about to recite his name, address and phone number but he was so overwhelmed with the happiness of being rescued he broke down and started to cry in spite of happiness. The naval officer was disappointed in us for being such savages because we were British. Ralph takes responsibility for all the boys on the island and what the people had done because he thought he was still the leader, even though jack was the more powerful. Jack had no objection and was truly sorry for his actions.

finally Entry Ralph.

Castle Rock

Dear Mother

Chapter 11

When Ralph and co. meet up with Jack, Ralph tries to talk some sense into the savages as he demands Piggy's glasses back. Jack responds to this by attacking Ralph with his spear. The two leaders then engage in a duel, although Ralph cuts it short as he continues to reason with Jack. No such luck; Jack ignores Ralph's arguments, orders Sam'n'Eric to be tied up, and continues the fight.

Piggy breaks through to everyone and gets his turn to talk with Jack. He gets about as much progress as Ralph. Actually, things become worse, as the savages prepare to strike their enemies. All of a sudden, Roger, on top of the Castle Rock, shoves a giant boulder off on to the ground. The boulder slams into Piggy, presumably killing him to be honest; I expected a much gorier description. He got struck by a rock bigger than himself! Ralph, now alone, runs off into the forest.

I found the ending to this chapter really weird. It goes like this: "Roger edged past the Chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority." The chapter just ends like that. Roger did have one or two special scenes in the book, but nothing really significant. What makes him so major now that he possesses a "nameless authority" which is apparently suspenseful enough to end a chapter? Couldn't have Golding just ended it with some speech or something preferably from Jack?

Well anyway, Piggy's dead, and Sam'n'Eric are captured. That leaves Ralph. He's got no fire, no conch, no help and no way out. He's hopeless. He's doomed. I predict that in the next and final chapter, Ralph will have his final thoughts before the savages hunt him down and kill him, a tragically suiting ending to the story. It would be a nice resolution, a look back at the initial hopes of the boys' arrival on the island, and an analysis of what went wrong. 
Love
Ralph

The Shell and the Glasses

 

Dear Mother,

Character Journal Chapter 10

   After Simon's death, Ralph and Piggy are sitting on their platform. Ralph appears rather traumatized by the "murder" as he calls it of Simon. Piggy tries to justify their actions, but Ralph won't have any of it. The four remaining non-savage biguns, Ralph, Piggy, Sam'n'Eric decide to pretend that it didn't happen, that they didn't take part in the wild dance. Back at the savages' "Castle Rock," Jack is holding a meeting. He thinks that Ralph or even the beast will try and attack their cave Jack refuses to accept that the beast they supposedly attacked last night is dead. He promises his tribe more meat, but they have no means of cooking, so Jack decides to raid Ralph's group again for more fire.

Three savages attack at night. Ralph's group of biguns is assaulted by savages, but they manage to fend them off. After the attack, Ralph and co. are assessing the damage. Everyone seems fine, until Piggy seems to have lost his glasses. The boys look outside, and they see Jack walking away with two savages - and Piggy's glasses. All I can say is; man that is some good eyesight to be able to notice that much detail. And in the dark, too! Maybe I'm missing something, but to me, that is one impressive feat! There's something that intrigues me in this chapter; it's when Ralph is playing his "game of supposing." He thinks of landing in "that big airfield in Wiltshire," and then his thoughts turn to taking a train "all the way down to Devon." Was this where the boys were heading? Was only Ralph heading for these places? This book really should have been bigger - or at least the author should have given a premise in the beginning, and not part-way through the book. Jack is acting rather paranoid in this chapter. He strongly believes that the beast is still alive, even though the boys had already assaulted what they thought was the beast. Did Jack see it was Simon after all? Is he trying to convince himself that Simon's still alive? Is he in denial? Is he flat-out insane?

Well, Jack may be nervous, but it's Ralph who's really desperate now. Those glasses were the one advantage he had over Jack and his tribe. And now they're gone. He's basically left with nothing. His group has now diminished to three biguns and some littluns. Their one tool to make a fire and therefore their one chance for rescue has been stolen by Jack. Ralph is no longer the one in control now. I can only imagine that things are coming to a climax soon.

Signed Ralph

A View to a Death

 Dear Mother,

Character Journal Chapter 9

In this chapter the central emphasis is Simon. The chapter starts off by Simon getting back to reality after his “encounter” with the Lord of The Flies; he is a bit dazed of but manages to recover. He wakes up next to the dead sow that the hunters had killed and traveled back down the mountain. On Simons way down he sees what people called the beast. Since there was plenty of daylight it was clear to Simon that what everyone thought was the beast was actually a Dead parachutist. He hurries down the mountain to tell the others but when he gets down Ralph and the rest of his tribe were listening to jacks tribe eating and having fun, and Piggy suggests they go see what’s going on. I think this symbolizes how Ralph’s tribe isn’t in a very good situation, when piggy tells Ralph they should go see what’s going on he is essentially speaking for the rest of the tribe by saying that they are hungry and jack is probably cooking meat.

 By Ralph giving in to this suggestion he is showing his lack of leadership and control over the kids. They arrive to jacks camp and aren’t surprised to find that they have killed yet another pig and devouring it. But they are surprised to find that Sam and Eric were there all along joining them. This is showing how the situations of food in Ralph’s tribe aren’t very good and some kids have decided to take aid with jack’s tribe. When Jack sees Ralph’s tribe he doesn’t hesitate to offer them meat. This is a very sneaky move in jack’s part because he is making himself seem like the good guy and making Ralph seem like he can’t provide for his tribe. After some time the rain starts moving in and Ralph makes the point that they have shelters but Jack Answers comment by saying they have a chant. Suddenly all of jack’s tribe grabbed their spears and started chanting in circles.

 Kill the beast spill its blood cut its throat. By doing a dance jack’s tribe is reminding me of the Native Americans, they have become as savage as the Native Americans while still having a believed in a higher power. And in jacks tribe the higher power is the beast. As the chant goes on the rain gets stronger and stronger and a black figure comes sliding out of the bushes, Jacks tribe calls it the beast while Simon is trying to tell them it’s just a dead man, but they wouldn’t listen. I think this symbolizes how Jack and the rest of the hunters are not excepting the fact that their might not be a real beast, and that they don’t want to accept civilization ever again.

My predictions are that a time will come where the kids will be rescued but jack along with his hunters won’t accept civilization ever again because savagery would just be the easy way out.

Love

Ralph

On another note

Gift for the Darkness

Dear Mother,

Character Journal Chapter 8

After all the predictions that were made as a final point jack has broken away from the group and formed his own tribe. Jack has decided he doesn’t need to take orders from anyone to any further extent and especially not Ralph. Over the course of time that the kids have been stranded on the island Jack has showed jealousy of Ralph but now he has decided that he doesn’t need jack to tell him he can be leader. So by being leader of his own tribe I think this symbolizes the break of Ralphs rule over jack and maybe this is foreshadowing the fact that Jack will Rule over Ralph someday. Now that Jack has formed his own tribe he starts off with what he does best, hunting. At the beginning of the book I said that Jack was loosing part of his civilized side but now it’s gone to a point that he has no civilized part in him left. Jack has turned into a real savage that doesn’t have any interest in going back to his nice polite ways. And jack has influenced the rest of the hunters to do the same.

Jack starts hunting by going after a Sow. He injures the sow but he isn’t able to kill it, but because of his lack of civilized ways he doesn’t stop until he found the poor sow and ended its life by stabbing it until it squealed no more. I think that the sow symbolizes Jack and the rest of the hunter’s capacity of not giving up. It shows that Jack has turned into a person that won’t take no for an answer, and this may cause danger for Ralph and his tribe. Once Jack killed the sow, that didn’t satisfy him enough, and to show his fierceness he striped the head of the carcass and put it on a stick. In my opinion, Jack does this in order to scare Ralph’s tribe and let them know not to mess with them. I think jack wants to send the message of join me or don’t get in my way to Ralph’s tribe.

Simon is the only person who is undecided between the two tribes. When Jack decided to split into his own tribe Simon seemed as if he was favoring jacks tribe. But since the beginning of the book Simon was that innocent boy who loved nature and he will certainly go with Ralph’s tribe. But something happened to Simon when he met the lord of the flies, which I think is the devil himself. This encounter with the lord of the flies may change his perspective of things just because of fear.

My predictions For the rest of the book is that Simon will join Jacks tribe just because of fear and his guilt will make him betray Jacks tribe to do what he thinks is right.

Forever Ralph