The Beast

Lord of the Flies

Chapter 5: Beast from Air

Perspective: Piggy

Today was a very scary day. Sam and Eric came down from the mountain telling everyone that they had seen the beastie. They said that the beast’s arms were flailing about and actually touched one of them on the shoulder. I was embroiled in a battle with Jack about the beast. It frightened us all, when they said that they saw the beast. We went to go hunt the beast. On the way we saw a guano of sea birds flying into the distance. Jack said that their was one place on the island were he had never been before. We went there on an interminable journey that took a long time. We diffidently talked about who should lead them on to the cliff when suddenly Ralph said, “I will be the one to go. Don’t ask questions. When Ralph left, Jack went after him muttering something about how he did not want him to be alone. There were very tense moments when Jack and Ralph were out of sight. Then they both came back and said that everything was fine and there was no beastie there. Some of the boys went to were Ralph and Jack were and started to roll rocks. I personally wanted to go back to the shelters and take a nap but most of the kids said that they wanted to stay.