Dear Auntie,
I just want you to know that I'm stuck on an island
and I have no idea where it's at. I was on the plane and just all of a sudden,
boom, all I know is that I'm in the ocean swimming towards this island. I was
walking along the beach when I met this boy named Ralph. He was a quite a fine
fair haired fellow. He and I got to talking and we both realized that there weren’t
any grownups anywhere that we could see. He asked me my name, so I told he
could call me anything he liked, except for Piggy. He laughed just like
everyone else does back home. We were walking around when we found this lagoon
by the sea. Ralph just took all his clothes off and jumped in right away, but I
was a little shyer than to just jump in like that. I just slowly eased my way
in. I wish you could have felt how warm the water was Auntie! But then I found
this shell just like neighbors have! It was almost exactly like the conch shell
they have! So I told Ralph about it, and then he had a thought. What if we weren’t
the only boys on the island? So he tried and tried to blow into the conch
shell, but he just couldn’t get a good sound out of it. So he asked me to do
it, but you know just as well as I do that I couldn’t do that because of my
asthma! But then he tried again, but this time it worked great! He blew on the
conch time after time, and wouldn’t you know it, but kids starting coming left
and right out of the jungle! Ralph told me when kids started showing up that it
was my job to keep their names. Finally this strange group of boys came out. The
boy in front that led them, I didn’t like him, not one bit. He was tall and
older than some of the kids, but he was very mean and very cocky, his name was
Jack. He even had one boy pass out and he got mad at the boy. His name was
Simon, and I like him. Anyway, Jack and Ralph wanted to go see if we were
really on an island or if we were just separated from all the grownups. They took
Simon with and I really wanted to go with too but Ralph said I had to stay
back. When they got back, they told us
we were on an island all by ourselves, and kids got scared and were asking
questions about the creepers, and beasties, and the beast. But Simon said that
none of those were true, he said it was all of our imagination. Simon is just
so smart auntie! But then Jack butted in saying that he should be our leader,
but I stood up for Ralph, because I know that Ralph would be a good leader. So
we had a vote to say who was in charge. Ralph won over Jack. So Ralph went on
to say how whoever held the conch during the meetings got to talk while
everyone stayed quiet, and we all ruled that it was very fair. Ralph also said that
when he blows the conch, it means we are having a meeting, or we are going to
eat. Then Jack said he wanted to be in charge of something, so Ralph told him
to take his choir and make them hunters and gatherers. Jack seemed to be ok
with that. I had some good ideas, like how we need to build shelter and build a
fire so people know that we are here, but no one listens to me. But the second
Ralph says the exact same thing; it’s all fine and dandy. So they went to the
top of the mountain to build a big fire. And it worked really well right away. But
then it started to die out and they started getting careless with the fire and
started a great big fire in the forest. Kids were scared, but when everything
settled down again, we did a head count. But I have to tell you Auntie, there
was a little boy by the fire when this happened, and we think he was burned to
death. That’s so sad that we haven’t even been here very long and someone has
already died. I’m just really scared Auntie, and I want to come home. So
please, when you get this letter, come find me and all the other boys before
things get to out of control.
Love, forever and always
Your
dear, little Piggy <3
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