Chapter 8: Piggy's Pov

It was so mean from Jack to say that Ralph was not a good chief! But I didn’t expect anything different from him, actually. I was glad when he left. I saw that he was really nerved that all the other boys seemed to like Ralph as a chief. Nobody raised his hand. We can handle it without Jack. We don’t need him. And now I no longer have to see him every day. I hate to see him. I hate him. And he hates me. When the older boys left I felt really alone. I was afraid that the beast would come. I would not have been able to fight against it and protect the littluns from it. We have to stay on the platform – it is safe. I was really scared when they did not come back. It was already dark and I was still alone with all these little boys! I didn’t know what to do. Every noise scared me. I was so glad when the older boys came back the other day. I had to see Jack again. His tread was embarrassing. He wanted more boys to join his stupid hunter-group. So that he can kill more pigs and show more of his bloodthirst. The situation is pretty clear for me: The open group has fire but no meat because they don’t have hunters like Jack (with his knife) and Maurice; and the other group has much meat but it doesn’t have fire to roast the pig on it – they need Piggy’s glasses to make a fire but Piggy is in the other group. They are addicted to each other and they just get it because now they are separated and the groups don’t have what the other group has. In life we often see these things. That we completed each other – but we only see it when the other part is not there any more. Jack’s performance (page 140) on the beach was strange. He wants to have more boys in his group. He wants more boys to control. I am not sure if he does that because he is halting or because he just wants to get attention from the other boys and show them, that two boys joined him. He does not even take fire, and that is, what he needs.