Chapter Four - Painted Faces and Long Hair

We have become used to the rise and set of the sun, though we are still finding it hard to adjust completely. There's a littlun, I think his name's Percival, who stayed in one of the shelters for two whole days, crying. He doesn't play with the other littluns much and cries often. The littluns are separate from the biguns. They eat fruit most of the day and have become accustomed to the diarrhoea and belly aches. They have nightmares every night so they sleep together for comfort. They play most of the day and are filthy as a result.  They built sand castles on the beach and played there often. There were three there now, Percival was one of them, the other two were Henry and Johnny. Roger and Maurice, two of the biguns, bullied them today. While the littluns were playing Roger and Maurice kicked down their sand castles and sand got into Percival's eyes. Roger then followed Henry down near the water and he started throwing rocks around him.When Henry turned around, Roger hid behind a tree. Jack was ten yards away, beckoning him. So he followed. When they stopped, there was a bunch of other biguns and they had different ingredients they were using to paint their faces. They were going hunting. A while later Piggy approached me. He proposed making a sun dial, what a stupid idea. I had been swimming and was laying down when I saw a ship on the horizon. A ship! I was so sure they would see our smoke...If we had any. I ran to the mountain and saw that there was no one there. Then I looked down the side of the mountain and saw a procession of boys carrying spears and a pig. Jack had his face painted and was grinning. I was beyond angry. Jack had taken the boys who were watching the fire on a hunting trip. I started yelling at Jack but Piggy interrupted me. Jack immediately punched him and broke his glasses. Now the most intelligent of the whole group has blurred vision. Again Piggy tried to yell at him but Jack pretended to rush at him so he ran and hid. Jack made fun of Piggy and then apologised to me for having let the fire out. I lit the fire again and Jack cooked the pig. Jack gave everyone a piece except for Piggy, so Simon gave him his and Jack gave Simon another piece. Then Maurice pretended to be the pig and the others pretended to kill him, just like savages. I then told them we were having an assembly immediately.