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= LORD OF THE FLIES = =**By William Golding**=

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 * Synopsis:**

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of school boys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a life of bright and fantastic and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance.


 * About William Golding:**

Sir William Gerald Golding, was an English novelist, playwright, and poet who won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and is best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was born on the 19th of September, 1911 in St Columb Minor, United Kingdom. He then passed away on the 19th of June in Perranarworthal, United Kingdom. He studied at St John's School and Community College, University of Oxford, Brasenose College, Oxford.


 * Main Characters:**

Ralph: The elected leader of the boys and the main hero. He is neither the smartest or the strongest but has a kind of quiet personality and good looks. He tries to keep the boys focused on clean order and the rules of civilisation.

Piggy: Subject of the group's mocking for his weight, asthma, and general lack of physical skill or stamina. He provides the brains of the group, as well as the spectacles necessary to start the fire.

Jack: The leader of the choir/hunters. He's rude, arrogant, and a skinny boy with red hair. Already an activist as a choir leader, Jack leads his group of choirboys-turned-hunters in mutiny against Ralph's leadership by playing on the boys' baser instincts.

Simon: The thinker of the group. Given to fainting spells and spending time alone in the jungle, he is considered odd by the other boys. Only Simon understands the true nature of the beast they fear, and only Simon has the courage to investigate the eerie creature sighted on the mountain.

Roger: A sly, secretive boy who displays, early on, a cruelty toward the weak and vulnerable. Once joining Jack's tribe, he becomes the hangman.

Sam and Eric: The twin boys who are in charge of keeping the signal fire going. Until they are captured by the tribe, they remain loyal to Ralph. They speak as one, often finishing each other's sentences, so that the other boys pronounce their two names as one word.



My short story (Death to the Aristo's): Scarlet Pimpernel

I’m cold and I’m tired, it’s 10:10 in the morning and I have come to watch the execution. My mother holds one arm over my shoulder as a man is brought up to the guillotine. Dreadful smells, like blood and hay and horses all mixed together surround me in the thick air. The drums are too loud and I feel the beating throughout my body. Everyone is shouting, I’ve never liked coming to these. It is all too overwhelming for me.

I don’t understand why people are cheering. This isn’t good, this is bad, people are dying. We are choosing to kill these people. How is this helping anything?

I see the man nod to his fellow executioners. I desperately grab my mother’s free hand, and shut my eyes tight. I hate this.

And then it’s over, another life is lost.

I open my eyes to find one of them men taking the bag away. I do not want to be here, why should I be forced to watch something that only disgusts me? I let go of my mother hand; she looks down at me, confused.

‘Please mother, I don’t want to be here’ I whisper.

She hesitates, my eyes plead. ‘Go’ she nods.

I quickly but quietly sneak behind the large crowds of people, ducking into a bakery, finally away from it all.


 * LORD OF THE FLIES CREATIVE STORY ESSAY: **

23/4/1954 Chief Officers report for Captain Report stating information from marooned boys found on island

After interviewing the boys I have found that there seems to be many different sides to the story of what happened on the island. I have come to find that there is definitely tension between some of the boys, I also feel that there may have been some sort of rivalry between the two groups they created.

I interviewed each of the boys individually, and they all provided me with similar information. Although there were a few that stood out to me, in which what they told me was different or significant compared to what I had already heard.

I have gathered that there were two leaders amongst the boys, Ralph and Jack, both twelve years of age. Jack spoke very highly of himself, and stated he ‘held the group together’. When I asked Jack about Ralph, he grew angry and spoke so poorly of the boy he seemed jealous of him, I’m unsure as to if I can believe all of what Jack has told me. Ralph though, seemed too exhausted to explain what happened on the island, but I got the intension that he felt he needed to tell me, as he wanted the truth to be told. His side of the story seemed much more believable, although he did come to tell me some distressing news. Three boys passed on the island, all on different occasions. The first was a young boy that none of them knew the name of, he died in a fire the boys lit which got out of control. The second was Simon, supposedly Jacks group of boys mistook him for a “beast”, and they killed him in an attempt to protect themselves. The third, Phillip Chumley (also commonly referred to by the boys as Piggy), Ralph told me that Phillip was the smartest on the island, the one who made the most reasoning, but was never listened to enough. A boulder being pushed on him by Roger, a boy following Jack, killed Phillip. I count eighteen boys we have brought onto the ship, so with the three that are now deceased, there must have been twenty-one to start with. I suggest tomorrow we send out a search on the island for any more boys that could still be there.

I have been told that the boys did try to live on the island in a civil, organised way. They put people into groups to do different things such as, building the huts, hunting for food, and keeping the fire going so ships could see it as an SOS signal. They chose to have a leader, and the boys had to vote between Jack and Ralph. Ralph won this vote, and became leader straight away. This is where the jealousy must have begun for Jack. There was also a conch, which Ralph found on their first day of being on the island. He used it as a horn to bring all the boys together. There then came a rule, whoever held the conch was to speak with everyone listening. This worked well at first, but over time the conch lost its power and the boys over threw it. And that seemed to be the point when things got out of control.

I’ve gathered as much information as possible. It is now that we need to discuss what to do about the situation. We are in a difficult position, as we have to choose carefully what to believe. Being told others who were once thought of as class acquaintances have murdered some of the boys, makes this a very big issue. We will need a meeting arranged in the next 24 hours to examine the situation.

Michael Grant – Chief Officer.