Blog Assignment #8

Directions: Write in the perspective of your character. Remember to type your entry on a word document and paste it on to blogspot. The length should be 3-4 paragraphs.

Who you are:
1: Piggy
2: Ralph
3: Jack
4: Simon
Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness
The news of the beast has the entire camp in an uproar as they gather on the beach.
-Jack tells the others that there is definitely a beast on the mountain and goes on to claim that Ralph is a coward who should be removed from his leadership role.
-The other boys, however, refuse to vote Ralph out of power. Enraged, Jack storms away from the group, saying that he is leaving and that anyone who likes is welcome to join him.
-Ralph slips into a depression, but Piggy cheers him up with an idea: they should build a new signal fire, on the beach rather than on the mountain.
-Jack gathers his new tribe and declares himself the chief. In a savage frenzy, the hunters kill a sow brutally.
- As Piggy and Ralph sit in the old camp discussing the deserters, the hunters from Jack's tribe descend upon them, shrieking and whooping. The hunters steal burning sticks from the fire on the beach.
-Just before Jack's tribe raids the beach, Simon slips away from the camp and returns to the jungle glade where he previously sat marveling at the beauty of nature. Now, however, he finds the sow's head impaled on the stake in the middle of the clearing.
-The head speaks to Simon in the voice of the “Lord of the Flies,” ominously declaring that Simon will never be able to escape him, for he lies within all human beings. He also promises to have some “fun” with Simon. Terrified and troubled by the apparition, Simon collapses in a faint.