Chapter 5: Maybe the beast is real: Simon's journal
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I hear the conch bellow loudly... another meeting just like Ralph had promised. I looked up at the sky. It was rather dark... we weren't used to late meetings like this. I shrugged and followed the sound of the conch.
When I got there, people were all talking and Ralph seemed to be in deep thought. He was rubbing the conch preciously, and he kept taking in deep breaths. I remembered when he told us we were going to have fun on this island. He did not seem like he had some fun news for us right now. I bit my lip and stepped farther out of the circle.
Well, I was right. When Ralph started talking, he wasn't in a good mood at all. He was yelling at everyone for not helping build the huts, except me. I stayed with him the whole time. He yelled at the hunters, the littleuns, everyone. Everyone was acting in ways that was inappropriate and how we would never act back at school or home. I knew this was because we didn't have anyone to tell us what to do. We had Ralph and Jack ordering us around, but they did not make a big impact on some of us.
Suddenly, Jack grabs the conch and starts yelling at the littleuns for their fear of the beastie. He tells them how the beastie isn't real and how they need to get over their nightmares. One boy announces that he had a bad dream, and he woke up and saw the beastie, which is his proof he was awake. No one but the littleuns believe him. When we ask where he would hide during the daytime when the hunters were hunting, he said in the water. I announce that the beastie might be on e of us, and admit I was out in the forest last night. But I wasn't trying to scare the littleuns! Just trying to go to my special place. Because I can't tell them where I went, Jack doesn't believe me. He thinks I'm trying to frighten them, and he suddenly gets very angry. I think by the time we are done talking, he believes it isn't me. But I'm not to sure. After a while of silence, Jack frowns, and announces he will kill the beast. The hunters yell in excitement, and start dancing about. That makes me shudder. He is so obsessed with killing things now, compared to when we first came he couldn't even slit a pig's neck.
When the assembly is over, Ralph comes down to where Piggy and I are standing. He announces he might quit being leader. Piggy and I try to convince him to stay leader, because he's the best leader there can be and we need him to guide us. I'm not sure if he'll stay leader on not, though. As we huddle to sleep, the littleuns are making fearfull noises in the distance. I worry about them, and if the beastie is real. I think it is. But who?