The Head on a Stick

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 8:
Perspective: Jack


I had a great day today. I called and tried to a meeting today and tried to get named chief. Nobody voted for me so I left. I told everybody that wanted to come could follow. I got most of the hunters back except Samneric. They stayed with Ralph which was a big loss. We went hunting with our sharper sticks. We found a pig.

The chase was on. The pig was running down the pig trail with two spears in her. It was easy to chase her because she had blood dripping. We followed her to the scar and then started chanting. Kill the pig. Roger started to stab her with his spear. I slit her throat and then hot blood came pouring down onto my hand. Then Roger started chanting, “Right up her ass!” Then we paunched the pig and left the head on a stick for the beast. We brought the meat back to camp and realized that they didn’t have Piggy’s specs to start a fire. That night we went over and stole some and then tried to convince people to come over to our side. A few of the littluns came and we did get some of the fire. That is where the day ended.