Chapter 6: We'll hunt it down!: Jack's journal

I am lying awake, and the wind is rough. The shelters are becoming less sturdier each day. A wisp of hair intertwines with another as I turn around and lay on my side. I reach and pull them apart, wishing I had a brush. My hair was so long! I rubbed my touch on top of my teeth. I could feel the plaque and dirtiness around it. I wish I had a toothbrush. I wish I had many things, and life here would be much better. I sighed, and embraced the fact that, we won't be getting life's essentials anytime soon. If- at all. I shuddered, and wonder what would happen if we were never to be rescued. I pulled that thought way in the back of my head- and instead thought about Ralph. I won his wanted attention over, fair and square. I showed everyone how much of a heroic and better leader I could be. If only Ralph could see this too, then-
Suddenly Sam and Eric are by my side, shaking Ralph and I. They exclaim they saw the beastie, and it was flying and attacking them, with big eyes and sharp teeth. When they told their story, their arms were flailing everywhere and using examples. I believe them, and I am astonished. We all get up and out, and Ralph hesitates to blow the conch. I don't know exactly why, but I think he doesn't want the beastie to be attracted to it, or maybe he just does not want to rouse everyone up that way.
Once we are all gathered by Sam and Eric running frantically telling everyone the beastie is here, Ralph is waving the conch in the air to let everyone know this is a meeting and he is speaking.
He tells everyone the beastie is real, the littleuns shake and look even more frightened. A few of the older boys seem like they don't believe us, but as the story unwinds, they to, start to shake a bit but not as nearly as much as the littleuns.
Where have I not hunted? I thought, than tell everyone that I haven't been in a little area by these rocks. I suddenly exclaim that we will go hunt the beastie in the morning, when we can see him. As soon as the words come out of my mouth, I become filled with confidence. When I strike the beastie , everyone will elect me as leader and kick Ralph out. Everyone seems to agree, and I don't want Ralph to come along, but he feeds his way into it.

Later on, we start trudging around the island, all of us eager to find the beastie.
Ralph and I are actually agreeing on everything so far, and I'm waiting for us to get mad at each other again. We stop and rest a few times, and we are all fixing our messy hair and getting them out of our face. We reach what seems to be a cave, and we go in.
Simon and I don't like if very much, but Ralph seems to be fine with his surroundings. Simon and I exchange a puzzled look, and we come back out of the cave.
Me and some other boys start pushing off boulders again, once we reached the top of the mountain. We were having a great time, laughing and yelling in triumph. Ralph only stood and watched us, and didn't look very pleased with us, in fact he seemed rather waxy.
He told us he wanted us to focus on more "important"things. So typical of him, after all he wast he one who suggested fun first. I stand in front of the boys and lead them down.

Chapter 7: The beastie buldge: Jack's journal

We kept walking until Ralph started jumping up and down, exclaiming he though he had seen the beast. When he explained what he saw, we all knew it was a boar, not the beastie. I shook my head in shame at him, and he kept going on and on about how he wounded the animal. He seemed so victorious he was making a fool out of himself. No one was very impressed, nothing compared to the admiration I got when I caught the first pig.
I knew from the start, this was mainly to gain back the attention that I had took from him. We all started at Ralph in his happiness, only waiting for him to get over it. The only think he said for a few minutes was "I wounded it!" When none of us cared as much as he thought we did. Well I killed one, and if he wanted the attention that I was receiving, he'd have to kill dozens. Almost everyone was preferring me over Ralph as chief and he just needed to accept the way things were now. Ralph finally calmed down enough to be quiet and move on to chasing the boar. When it was over, we were all excited and thrilled. We were reminding ourselves of the fun we had.
We made a circle and pushed a boy, Robert in the middle. We pretended he was the animal, and we circled in on him and started lightly tapping him with out spears. He made a few playful cries of pain, and then we accidentally hurt him a bit. He cried out with more of an alarmed and bravado sound in his voice, and soon stepped out of the circle.
When it was pretty dark, everyone wanted to rest. We sent Simon back to tell Piggy we'd be back soon. We just had to take care of our poor little Piggy. When Ralph brought up the idea, I had hated him again. I was not sure what to think of him now. When we were out exploring we got a long fine normally, but back at the island we were always mad at each other, yelling, and disagreeing about the ways the island should be ran.
Everyone but me sat down and got into a comfy spot, as if they were ready to sleep.
Ralph brought up a horrible idea, to wait until morning to go see the beastie so we can see it better. He was probably just afraid of it, and it would give him nightmares if he searched in the dark.
I was going up the mountain to look for the beastie- now. If no one was going to come with me, I would be fine with that. Ralph stood up, along with Roger and they decided to come along too. Everyone else seemed very dun with the idea of moving on right now. Many people looked at me imperviously. I didn't think Roger was up for this, but I shrugged and we started climbing.
We were soon sitting on the top of the mountain, and Roger started talking about some sort of "Bulge" in the mountain. What kind of creature bulges? Nothing we knew of. We crawled closer to the bulging area, and then we SAW IT! The moment I looked into it's eyes seemed interminable. It was horrible, with big eyes and teeth! Scrambling back up on our feet, we started to run back to tell the others.