Lord of the Flies (pg. 50-82)

They finally listened to Piggy about building shelter. The children started building huts on the beach. I think they realized how important finding shelter from the dangers of the jungle. Now they are missing one kid from the group because of their carelessness, but I think Piggy should be the leader because he has more sense about these sort of things. He gives the ideas but doesn't know how to express them so people will listen to him. He doesn't have commanding voice like Ralph's. I think I can connect this to our society because people listen to the person in command (president) blindly without thinking of the consequences and we end up with a war like now. They group thinks it is not possible that there is any danger in the jungle it is a so called "good Island." There is no such thing as a good or bad islands there is just wilderness and you. The second section I read the children started to have mirages around midday. It was sort of funny because their mirages were so weird because they couldn't possibly be real. The boy who had gone missing hadn't been found but nobody really tried looking for him. The children started to paint their faces to look more savage like. I think that all the freedom they have will go to their heads and one the co-leaders will snap and become a psycho or something. It seems as Ralph will become that person and he will start thinking for himself and risk other
children's lives just to get what he wants out of them.