Where Are We?

May 8, 2013

            Piggy here. I am short and fat; well that’s what most people tell me. People at school would call me Piggy. I didn’t like it. I met Ralph, but there is no one else around, well at least not yet. I wasn’t exactly sure if I should tell Ralph what the kids used to call me. I told Ralph that they used to call me Piggy and he started to laugh. I said, “You can call me Piggy, but please don’t tell the others.” He thankfully agreed. I have asthma. My auntie says I can’t run or swim. My mum, well I’m not quite sure where she is and I live with my auntie because my dad’s dead. Ralph noticed something in the lagoon; it looked like a shell. I examine it only to find that it’s a conch. Conchs are very expensive you see. I suggested to Ralph that we use it to call the others. He had a little trouble at first, but he finally was able to do it. Slowly but surely, boys came from different directions. There was Johnny, the twins: Sam and Eric, Jack, Roger, Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry, and Simon. I guess I was talking too much because Jack called me Fatty and told me to shut up. I didn’t really like it that much. Then Ralph yelled that my name was Piggy not Fatty. He promised he wouldn’t tell the other boys yet he did anyway. We were trying to decide who the chief would be, and it was between Jack and Ralph. I didn’t vote for Jack, but I was a little hesitant on voting for Ralph, so I slowly raised my hand. Ralph decided that three boys, including himself, would go check to make sure it was an island. He chose Jack and Simon to accompany him. I said I wanted to go too. He just told me that I wasn’t good at a job like this. I said I was with him when he found the conch shell, and I then confronted him on telling the boys about Piggy even though he promised not too. I was hurt and crushed; he still left me behind. I go sit down with the rest of the boys and think of a way to get off the island. I don’t want to stay another minute. The boys call me names and I don’t like them. Please, someone rescue us soon.