Sunday, November 13, 2011

Simon's Point of View

        After being on this island for a while, I’ve started to notice things that mirror our old society even though we are just a bunch of boarding school kids stranded on an island. For one there are cliques which had already started to form at the first meeting. First there is Jack and his hunters. Back at school they had been the choir, everyone obeyed them out of fear. This is still true on the island except that everyone fears them for another reason, their attraction to violence. They are constantly hurting the little ‘uns. whenever they see them on the beach they kick at them and make them cry. And when they killed their first pig they had painted their faces with mud and were cheering “kill the pig! Cut her throat! Bash her in!” and while they had been hunting they left their task of keeping the fire, letting it burn out and a ship had passed offering a chance to be rescued. However the hunters would rather kill and see blood then return to their normal lives. I am supposed to be one of them, and I was in the beginning but I didn’t enjoy harming the little ‘uns or killing animals. Now I am kind of a loner and prefer to spend my days back in the woods observing the island. Then there is Ralph and Piggy who tend to hang around each other. Piggy seems like the obvious brains of the group but no one can get past his appearance, making it so the other boys don’t listen to him. There are a few boys who follow them like Sam and Eric and me but most people follow Jack. The little ‘uns are kind of their own clique. They always play together on the beach and sit together at meetings. Playing on the twister and not caring about what was being discussed.

1 comment:

  1. Kallie, I like that you chose Simon,and I think "he" is right to recognize the cliques that have formed on the island. Next, get me MORE into Simon's head. What does he think of the cliques? What does he think about being a loner? Why doesn't he want to hunt or pick on people? What motivates him? Keep asking those questions...nice job!

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