DAY 28
Ralph probably thinks we killed Simon last night, but I know it wasn't Simon. The beast can take on any form he wants, and he can never be truly killed! Lucky for me, I've found a way to use the others' fear of the beast to rule them.

I now have almost all the bigguns in my tribe, so now I have a stronger tribe than Ralph. I hate him so much, he deserves the loss of power and order that he's getting.

Now I have almost all the bigguns, and I can use their fear of that beast to have supreme power over them. With Ralph's conch barely able to keep his tribe together, I have every advantage over him. Had everything that he once had…except for one thing.

I felt like typing up Wilfred and beating him, even though he didn't really do anything. I am now not only chief of this tribe, but now I'm ruler of the whole island! I enjoy using my superiority to beat and attack anyone, anywhere at anytime. People are beginning to fear me, and I love knowing that.

But, I also know that Ralph still has one thing I don't: fire. We would surely need fire if we were to survive, and Piggy's specs were the only means of us getting it. Because of this, I brought some of my strongest tribe members to plan a raid on Ralph's camp to get the specs.

The raid went perfectly.Yes, some of my tribe member's got hurt by Ralph's resistence, but it doesn't matter. I was able to sneak around in all the chaos and steal Fatty's specs. Now I have the power to make fire!

We were all enjoying the fire and meat, until Ralph let his sorry band into our camp, demanding Piggy's specs back. Yeah, right! I wasn't about to give the specs back to Ralph and his wretched lot. I raised my spear and pointed it his chest, telling him that I wasn't taking orders from him anymore. He shot back by pointing his spear at my chest.

In no time, Ralph and I were dueling with our spears as if they were swords. I was nervous Ralph was going to win, but luckily I got the upper hand.

I was able to hit Ralph in the ribs with my spear. Ralph realized how huge trouble he was in, and he started running off. He ran into an open area and we tried throwing our spears to hit him, but unfortunately we all missed.

But it didn't matter. We captured Samneric, and I tried convincing both of them to join my tribe. I'm chief of the island now, not Ralph, and I tried to get them to turn, but they wouldn't. So what if we're more savage than Ralph now? I have control, and everyone is going to be bowing down to me in no time!

The best part, though, came during the stand off. When Ralph was trying to get me to give Piggy's specs back, Roger picked up a large rock and tried to throw it down on Ralph. Ralph barely dodged it, and instead the rock hit Piggy. Piggy fell backwards and off the cliff. That killed him! Piggy is finally dead; I'm glad I don't have to put up with that fat oaf's remarks anymore.

I was finally able to convert Samneric to my tribe. With them on my side and Piggy dead, Ralph is alone now. And soon, he will be dead, too. After Ralph fled, I gave all my hunters orders that we were going to hunt down Ralph and kill him.

DAY 29
The hunt was on, looking for Ralph. Ralph had better be enjoying his final hours alive. When the hunt began, we all started carrying our spears. Ralph wasn't going to escape from us, now!

After what seemed like the longest time, Ralph was found in the thickets. Unfortunately, he was in way too deep for us to get him, but I had another idea. I took the (late) Piggy's specs and started making a fire in the thickets with them. In no time, the island started becoming ablaze, and Ralph had little hope of making it out alive. Miraculously, he was able to make it out.

The chase continued, and I was excited now. Ralph was badly wounded and he wouldn't last much longer. In a matter of minutes he would be dead, and I would rule the island without any competition.

Ralph ended up running on the thin beach, and soon, he would have nowhere left to run. My heart started pounding with excitement and happiness at the thought that Ralph would soon be dead.

Ralph slipped and fell when we were running after him. He was as good as dead now. But, something happened then that none of us expected. Ralph fell right at the feet of a naval officer. We couldn't believe it. A naval officer found us.

All my hatred towards Ralph disappeared, and my heart filled with joy, knowing the entire ordeal was finally over. Ralph broke into tears, and in no time, I broke into tears. I was just so happy that we were going to be rescued.

In the end, it turned out that setting the thickets on fire engulfed practically the whole island in flames. Luckily, a ship was right by and saw the flames.

I was emberrassed to say I turned into a savage and that two of our companions died. Ralph said that we're the British and the British are the best at everything, but we weren't the best in this instance.

So, as I write this on the navy ship as we head back to England, I think about all the hardships and bizarre moments of this incredible journey: forming a rebellion, hunting pigs, becoming chief of a tribe, turning savage, killing two of our fellow castaways (almost killing a third) and having to learn to fend for ourselves. These were really quite an extraordinary past few weeks. Maybe Ralph and I can be friends now. I'm not sure I'd trade these past few weeks in for anything. (except maybe the lives of Simon and, I can't believe I'm saying this, Piggy) I will never forget those days on that island.

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Well, there it is. There's Jack's Journal, the term paper for English class in February. I personally would rather have gotten Ralph, but at the end I think I got the best character. (not BY the end, but AT the end)

These are the comments my teacher made about this:
I think you did an extremely thorough job here Will, and it's definitely a 100. But I mist say-I think he would be trying to cover the deaths and convincing the boys not to tell on the way home. He'd be threatening to silence Ralph. Just my opinion. You've been a pleasure!

And throughout that entire journal, I only got one comment. It was from the line "Ralph said that we're the British and the British are the best at everything, but we weren't the best in this instance." The comment my teacher made was No- that was you wasn't it?) Throughout this almost 7,000 word journal, that was the only comment I got. Our teacher had to leave that week so she only had one week to grade our journals, so that definitely probably contributed to getting a perfect score. But I'll gladly take it!

Anyway, thank you to Leppers and K.L. Verne for reading this and reviewing it. Even though it was a more casual fic, I'm just glad you guys gave me feedback on it. Thanks for reading Jack's Journal, hope you liked it!