The Kill
Jack's Journal:
I'm making my way down the forest to where all the other boys are, I come back from a long sweaty hunt. I almost caught that pig hiding in the bushes, but I missed. I walk onto the damp sand of the beach where cool air brushes up against my face, it feels good. I stand for a seconds to relax in the cool air, and then make my way down to Ralph and Simon. Ralph looks at me in a frustrated way, he yelled out, where have you been?" " Well I was in the forest of course, trying to catch us some meat." I said. Ralph doesn't look pleased. Ralph said all the other boys have been swimming around in the water for ours. No one besides Simon here was helping make huts." " Right Simon?" "Where did Simon go?" " Look what you did, you made him angry too , that you and your hunters aren't helping to make the huts." "But we need meat." I said. Ralph started to speak again. " We have half of a hut and it keeps falling a part, and all you do is hunt. We don't need any food, we need shelter. I didn't understand how we couldn't have meat, but we could have shelter, and meat was more important. So I said " We need meat!" I couldn't help myself, trying to get meat was compulsion to me, to show them what I could really do. We argued a little more until I got tired of it and left to take a little walk in the forest, to get all the stress of my mind.
I wonder through the forest where I here branches falling and sounds of giggles. I assume it was the littluns, I pass them and they don't even notice me. They jump up and down trying to reach the ripe fruits hanging from the trees, as for now that is there only food. I walk deeper into the forest swatting flies that fly in my way. I step over branches and move branches out of my way. The branches cut me but I don't flinch. I follow a path that brings me to another part of the beach on the island. I walk closer to the beach and the wet muddy sand sticks to my feet holding me down. I walk behind a palm tree and lay against it, with my arms crossed and one foot stepping on the trunk of the tree. I think.
I look around the beach and see littluns making sand castles with the thick muddy sand. I watch as a boy named Maurice starts to stomp on the littluns castles. Another boy name Roger steps into view and he joins in on the stomping. Stopping the boys, I gather them and my other hunters and head back into the forest. I gather the rest of my troop that play around. I walk up the mountain thought he mountain with my hunters and gather Sam and Eric who are supposed to be watch the fire, but or my plan of catching a pig to work i need them as well. I find Sam and Eric watching the fire and ask them " Sam, Eric lets hunt." They make up excuses not to hunt. They say, "but, we are watching the fire." I look at them, and they get the message. " Now, get into two single file lines, and we will be on our way." I turn my back and we start to walk deeper into the forest.
Me an the hunter moved around trees, and step over branches, with the rocks and little branches pining to our feet. We start to here loud and blatant snorts, and I move two branches slowly out of my way, and there lying on the beach on the other side of the island there is a group of pigs. Before we go in I tell the hunters my plan. "Listen up, we are going to go to a pig and we are going to trap it." " When we get close to it we are going to get in a circle and trap i by closing in on it." "Follow me." I slowly walked onto the beach step by step, with he rest following after me. Then the pigs see us and start to run. The sound of the pigs hooves sound castanet as they run away from Me an my hunters. We all stay still and I yell, "CHARGE!" We all run after a pig that struggles where to go. we close in on it. It tries to escape but we close in faster.We walk in as close as we can. Then I chant out " Kill the pig, cut her throat, bash her in!" We cut her and stab her and hang her on a stake. She hangs on the floor of the sandy beach, and I cut off her head. Gouts of blood pored everywhere, it was amazing. We take her body back, for it is getting late. Her body is tendril. We jog through the forest and we reach the beach where we meet up with Ralph and the others.
We run up to Ralph and the others and we shout out " We got Meat, we got meat!" Ralph doesn't care, but he seems disappointed. He says to me " You let the fire got out." I tell him that we got meat, but he repeats himself again. " You let the fire go out." We needed Sam and Eric to hunt with us, other wise my plan wouldn't work. Ralph says " "There was a ship." Then he yells out, " You let the fire got out!!!" He keeps yelling. "We could have been home right now!" When he says he saw the ship I new what I did was a bad choice. I wanted to ignore it but I couldn't. So I apologized, and was truly contrite. We all were sorry and hung our heads in shame. As we stand there sitting by the fire we sigh. Ralph walks away in frustration. I sit on a log and think as horizon slips away in the night.
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