Painted Faces and long hair

The big fight

Aziza P.

Simon

1. What things are you having trouble adjusting to on the island that are different from your life at home in England?

I think that in England we had food and a house and shelter and we didn’t have to take care of our self’s as much as me do right now. We didn’t have to have as much belligerence as we would normally have to.

2. How do you feel about the littluns?

I think that th littluns are cool and stuff but they are kind of blatant and they don’t help us all out with the things that we need to do.

3. What do they do with their time?

The littluns mostly hang out in the pool and play around at the beach. They don’t really help out with our priorities.

4. Why do you all paint your faces?

We all painted our faces because jack felt like the animals could see him when he was hunting so he made us all paint our faces.

5. What does this foreshadow?

I think it might help us catch more animals I guess.

6. How do you feel when your face is painted?

I feel kind of in a hunting mode I guess and I feel like we are a tribe of kids.

7. Why doesn’t the passing ship see you on the island?

The ship didn’t see us on the island because jack was to busy hunting to notice that he fire went out so the ship didn’t see anything.

7. Why was the fire allowed to go out?

The fire was allowed to go out because jack found a pig for everyone to eat so Ralph just let it go.

8. What is the overall mood on the island at this time?

The mood on the island right now is sort of tense because me and jack just got in a sort of fight because I gave piggy some of my meat and jack and piggy just got in a fist fight and also Ralph got mad at jack because he let the fire go out.

9. What do you predict will happen next?

I think next the two side of the group might split up because Jack and Ralph are kind of mad at each other right now and they might split apart.

Blog #3

Huts on the beach

The argument

Piggy

By: Aziza P.

It is important for us to have shelter for the little kids because they are starting to get scared since the kid with the mark on his face said that he had seen the beastie. Some of the jobs assigned to the boys are: My job was to take everyone’s name, Jack and the choirs job is to hunt for food and to keep the fire going, Simon doesn’t have a job but he helps out with stuff anyways and the rest of the boys don’t do anything but sit around in the water. I just sit around too but I don’t really have to take peoples names. I am kind of contrite about not doing my work/ vicissitudes I feel like the most important task for survival is to try to get rescued. To try different things to try and get us rescued. But right now I am comfortable with just sitting around by the water. Simon is a sort of short and scrawny little boy with black hair and bright eyes. He wears torn up shorts all the time and he has bare feet. I think that on the island something bad might happen like the little kids might go crazy and scared about the beastie. Or maybe we will not get food since jack isn’t getting any food. He is inscrutable about killing things though so I don’ know about him. We might even figure out that there is something big and bad on the island so that would be bad also.

Poem about experience in the island so far:

This island and calm and cool like the breeze

It is mysterious and creepy like a detective

You never know what might pop up on this island

So far I have seen a fire and the calm ocean

This island seems nice and fun

But also scary and mean

This adventure has just begun.

Blog # 2

Fire on the Mountain

Piggy’s Glasses

Ralph

By: Aziza P.

1. Do you think this is a good island or a bad island?

We I think this island is kin o in the middle of good and bad because the island seems to have a lot of ebullience and the only bad thing so far that we have heard of on this island is about the beastie (snake thing). It’s probably about to be bad though knowing that we don’t really know how to put out a fire.

2. What is the beastie?

The beastie is the snake thingy that the little boy with the scar claimed to see. He said he saw it in the woods.

3. What does it symbolize?

The beastie symbolizes that there might b more wild animals out in the forest and that something bad might happen concerning the beastie.

4. How does it make you feel?

The beastie makes me feel kind of uncomfortable since I’m the leader of all of the boys and I would want anything to happen to any of them. I hope that Jack, this time, can catch the snake so we can have some food. Then we wouldn’t have anything to worry about.

5. What is your plan for being rescued?

Well we had planned to start a fire so that maybe a search plane or a ship would see us and come and rescue us but now the fire has gone huge and out of control so I don’t know what we are going to do now.

6. Do you want to be rescued?

Yes, We want to be rescued because even though it was probably cool at first to be without our parents but now that we have been here for a couple of days we realize that it is hard to survive on a deserted island with no adults.

7. How did you start a fire and what happens to the fire?

We made the fire by using Piggy’s glasses. We induced him to let us use them. Well actually we pinched them from him. We held them to the light and when the beam of light shined through to the wood and stuff that we got from the forest the fire started. But after a while the wind started blowing and the fire got bigger and bigger and bigger.

8. What happened to the little boy with a mark on his face?

The little boy with the mark on his face was down in the woods when the fire started spreading so we don’t know if he is okay o no but we really hope he is.

9. How are you different from all the other boys?

I am different from all of the other boys because first o all I am the leader of all of the boys so I have a bigger responsibility. Also I am fit to be a leader because I have the conch and i was there when Piggy found the conch.

10. As you go to bed each night, what is going through your head? Are you afraid, excited, indifferent…? What’s going on inside of your head?

As I go to bed each night I have lots of things on my mind. Since I am the leader I have to think about how we are going to get food. How we are going to get rescued. What could be in the forest? Tonight in particular I am thinking about the fire and if we are going to be let on this island, martyred, forever. I am also wondering I the boy with the scar I gone forever or if he is okay. But each night I’m definitely not capering each night.

Blog #1

The sound of the shell

The noise in the jungle

Jack

By: Aziza p.

1. Describe the setting of the island.

I would describe the island as probably very jungle like. It has lots of trees and also has a big mountain where you can see the whole island. There are a lot of ponds and little lakes.

2. What major event has brought you to this island?

Well what happened was I was on a plane and next thing you know I see the back of the plane flying off and after that I ended up on this island.

3. Introduce yourself and explain your relationship to the other characters (of interest) who have been introduced so far. My name is jack Merridew. I am the leader of the choir. So far on this island I have met Ralph (the “president” of the group), piggy (the talkative one in the group), and Simon is one of the boys that was in the choir but now h is going on the expedition with us.

4. Why are there no adults on this island? The reason that there are no adults on the island is because when are plane crashed it went a little too far of the island and ended up drifting off into the ocean.

5. What powers does a person holding the conch have? How do you feel about the conch? The person holding the conch has the power to let anyone know where they are or maybe even to contact with others. I feel that the conch is a powerful tool because if we get lost on out expedition or need help from the other kids on the island we can always blow it to let them know we are in trouble.

6. What is the choir’s job? How do you feel about the boys in the choir? The choir’s job is to hunt for animals and things for the group of boys to eat. I fell that the choir is a very important part of our group now and we have to depend on them to find food and supplies for the group.

7. Why do you feel you should be elected chief? I should have been elected chief because I am a strong leader and I have been the leader of the choir this whole time so I should be able to lead a pack of boys.

8. Why couldn’t you kill the pig? At that time I couldn't kill the pig because I was just noticing that I was about to kill a real live animal and that would pretty much be the same thing as killing a person. I didn’t realize at the time that I would have to kill things every day if I am going to survive on this island.