Chapter 5: Beast from Water

An assembly is called because jack let the fire go out. I was ludicrously angry and I called the

meeting to tell everyone.

People talk about the beastie and everyone is worried. Some kids are deep in lamentation.

I feel there is nothing to worry about .there is no beastie, its just discursive rambling of the

littluns. They freak out about everything and do nothing.

Things are falling apart because jack is questioning my authority and jeeringly laughing at me

and he really is destroying the tribe.

The littuns cry in there sleep because they are all scared that a beastie is going to come and eat

them. They are an effigy of scared people.

Percival was afraid that the beast came from water and would hurt him. He was paranoid, and

there is no monster, and if there was then jack would hunt it down and kill it.

The dirtiest thing about human nature is hatred. People hate each other and fight and kill each

other. We cannot fight among each other if we are to ever escape this island and return to England.

I like being chief but jack is really making being a chief feel lousy. It stinks to be chief with jack

always yelling at me about hunting. The fire is the most important part.

I have become a good leader and I have been thinking differently then when I first came to this

island.