Chapter 5

Why is an assembly called?
Ralph called the assembly to put down rules and regain order. I feel that these rules are a good idea because we will be able keep order while we wait to be saved.

What concerns are brought up?
He brings up the facts that almost no one worked on the final two huts. The third hut is almost falling down. He also brings up that the littluns are going to the bathroom near the fruit which contaminates their food supply. He also brings up that the signal fire has to be going at all times.

How do you feel about those concerns?
I feel that the rules are a good idea to keep order until we get rescued. I think Ralph is right about the signal fire because what if a ship comes, it would be ludicrous if we missed it again.

How are things breaking up (falling apart)?
Everyone is splitting up into two groups. If we split up into two groups it wont be an effigy of a good government. No one is pulling their weight like when we were building the huts. Only Ralph and I worked on the final hut and it turned out shaky and about to fall.

Why do you think the littluns cry in their sleep?
The littluns always have lamentation rising out of them because they are scared of the beastie coming out of the water. They have nightmares and they cry out in their sleep while no one comforts them.

What was Percival Wemys Madison afraid of?
Percival was afraid of the beastie which he said comes out of the water. He says that he saw it right before he fell asleep right after he said the incantation of his address.

What do you think is “the dirtiest thing there is” about human nature?
Sometimes we lose our decorum and got to the bathroom wherever we feel like going. The other thing that I think is bad is how we get enraged about things like missing the boat.

Explain the passage written about you: “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness. Inspiration came to him. What’s the dirtiest thing there is?”
Simon means that there is a beastie inside all of them meaning that when the littluns cry out they are seeing the evil inside them and they are thinking it's the beastie.

What are you suggesting about human nature when you ask that question?
It means that all of us have evil inside us and that is the dirtiest thing about human nature.