We had been walking all day and my feet were tired, but there was no way Jack or Ralph were going to let us stop. Even when we asked for a quick break they were uncompromising. We had now reached the other end of the island where no one had ever been and there we stopped for the first time. I started to think about my time on the island so far and how it had been the first day I arrived. The way we had walked in the two lines with such dignity, now all that was left of that part of my life was a black cap and my memory. I remembered how all of the littluns came out of the forest sniveling and whining about wanting their parents and the little scrapes and bruises that were all over their body. I looked back up at the rock that looked like a castle and saw little coverts all over the place.
"We need to keep going,"said Jack happy to be in charge.
We all got up and head up the pink rock that we had now decided to call castle rock. There were narrow ledges all over the place and we found one that looked like it led up to the top. I followed the rest of the group with jack leading and Ralph right behind them. When we came to the neck you could see out in to the ocean which seemed infinite. We decide to continue on along the ledge up to the top, but when we were to the top we all got a little scared of what might be at the top and decide to try a different route through the forest. When got into the forest we blundered through the first part until we came to a pig run. We walked along that for a while when all of a sudden a boar came flying at us we all jumped into the brush except for Ralph who was deep in thought and didn't even notice the pig until the last second. Then he flung his spear right in to the nose and it stuck there for a second while the pig ran off. Everyone stood there in amazement. Ralph who was not a hunter had just fought off a wild boar. I was starting to think maybe Ralph wasn't so bad after all.
"Did you see that!"He yelled. "I stabbed it right in the nose!"
Everyone ran over to congratulate him and talk to him. I thought it was dumb that they admired him so much, he wasn't even all that great. Then Jack ran over there with a bloody arm saying that he had tried to get the boar and that's what its tusks had done. Now the attention switched to him and then Robert got down on his knees and pretended to be the pig and charged Jack. Jack dodged him and then hit him with the butt of the spear. I tried to get in to the circle, but everyone was blocking me from getting in. It was infuriating that I couldn't get in, this was my one chance to fit in and I couldn't get in to the circle. I finally made my way in to the inner ring and nailed Robert in the back with the butt of my spear and he began to cry. It felt really cool to do that because everyone admired me a little for being tough. It was starting to get dark and everyone was getting scared. Ralph said that we needed to go on any ways and find the beast we made our way to the mountain where the signal fire had been and stopped there for a minute. Ralph said that we should go look for the beast, but everyone was too scared. Then Jack volunteered and I had to volunteer as well to look cool. "We shouldn't go," said Robert sagely. As if he knew something bad was going to happen. After I had volunteered no one else did so we went towards the top of the mountain. On the way up no one said anything, but the whole time I was thinking about how I didn't like the way Ralph led and pretty soon I might start my own tribe only I didn't know if anyone else would join. When we reached the top it took us a while to work up the courage to look over the top and when we finally did we saw an ape like thing sitting up against a rock and then we knew the beast was real. Jack had been right all along and right then and there I thought Jack should be leader not Ralph.
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