Kill the beast

Lord Of The Flies

Perspective: Ralph


I can't believe it. I can't believe jack has his own group now. It's only me, Piggy, Simon, and some littluns. I haven't seen Simon for a while. Not since the killing of the pig. I wonder where he is. Should i go to the feast Jack invited us to? Piggy want me to go to the feast. I don't know about it, Jack hates me and it might be a trap. I don't feel right over there. They feel evil. I'm only going to go if Piggy goes. I told him I'd go. While we're walking over i can smell them cooking meat. I can't help but be anxious for some meat.

We're here. Jack is like a idol to the hunters. He's being praised. He sees us and tells his hunters to give us meat. This seems alright so far. But i still think there are other problems to be dealt with. I'm going to wait until I'm done eating first. This meat is to good to let a argument get in the way of it. Okay. Now I'm done eating. I tell jack we should start a fire for a signal. And i try to get us all as one again. He just laughs. He doesn't want a signal fire. Everyone is laughing at me now. I tell him "Well I have the Conch" But i don't. I wish i did. And once again he laughs at me for it. Now he's telling everyone to start the ritual. I don't know why but something take me over and I join in like last time.

(in a trance)

Kill the pig!! Kill the Pig!! Cut it's throat!! Kill The Pig! something is in the shadows It's on all four. IT'S THE BEAST!! KILL THE BEAST!!!. It crawls into the circle like it want to die. It's trying to growl at us. We over power it with our chant. We jump on it. We bite it, we stab it, we claw it, we rip it apart. It's little. I thought it would be big. It's rolling down the hill. We chase it. I even got a couple stabs in the stomach of it. It's dead. We killed------ Wait. It was Simon!! He was the beast? or did we make a mistake? Everyone is in shock. He's dead. It's too late. His blood is pouring out of his body. Wait! something fell on top of us. It's the real beastie. It's in the ocean now. Same with Simon. He was the only one who understood things. Maybe with out him.... We won't know right from wrong.