LOTF Perspective Writing - Chapter Five

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 5 - Beast from Water
"Rules to Civilization"
Perspective: Simon

The light from the signal fire flickers on my face as I warily watch the dark, dense forest around me. I restlessly peer into the shadowed trees and wish I could go hide under the creepers with slivers of moonlight shining through. But Ralph asked me to watch over the fire and I agreed. I would much rather get rescued than be comfortable and at ease.
Ralph’s new rules are a good idea for the island. Hopefully everyone follows them, especially the rule about the signal fire. We also need better shelter, and the rule about drinking water should be followed through too. Even though they are great ideas, I fear that everything is falling apart too quickly that they will not be followed through in time to prevent mankind’s essential illness. So far, I think that the nighttime meeting was the worst so far. The air between Ralph and Jack has become tempestuous and that can’t lead to decorum between them.. The other boys will follow their lead and either join Ralph or Jack.
The littluns are an effigy of hopelessness, screaming in their sleep with no one to help them. The discursive story the little boy told us at the meeting was an example of what they dream about. Twisty things and beasts couldn’t be real, it is a ludicrous idea, but I wonder if the shadow he saw was truly me, or some other boy. I doubt it could be a beast, but the little boy, Percival brought up an interesting suggestion. The poor thing was too scared to say it around all of the older boys who had already countered his thought, but when he did say it I don’t think any of us had every thought of it before. Could there really be a beastie, and could it really come from the sea? Who are we to judge, as we are just some foolish boys, stuck on an island and subject to mankind’s essential illness: evil. I can tell that some boys have it already, like Roger, and Jack is beginning to show signs of it. Could Ralph or I ever become evil and malicious like them?
I hope Ralph’s plan to set things strait on this island works, or we could all become savage.