post 3

Journal entry
Jack's gone nuts

Simon I are at work building huts for the younger boys to live in. I am irritated because the huts keep falling down before they are completed and because, though the huts are vital to our ability to live on the island, none of the other boys besides Simon will help me. Simon and I work, most of the other boys splash about and play in the lagoon. I nag that few of the boys are doing any work. I say that all the boys act excited and energized by the plans they make at meetings, but none of them is willing to work to make the plans successful. I point out that Jack's hunters have failed to catch a single pig. I also worrie about the smaller children, many of whom have nightmares and are unable to fall asleep.


I am, annoyed that Jack, like all the other boys, is unwilling to work on the huts, Jack responds to my complaints by commenting that the boys want meat. As jack and I continue to argue and grow increasingly dangerous toward each other. Hoping to regain our sense of friendship, we go swimming together in the lagoon, but our feelings of hatred remain.