Blog post # 1

Lord of the Flies

Chapter 1 - The Sound of the Shell

"Oh dear, I’m a hunter!!!"

Perspective: Simon

Dear Diary,

Today I became a hunter! Me and the other boys will all have to find food for around twenty young boys and all of us! We went from singing and bringing peace to the enormity of killers! Taking life away from one living being to rescue around thirty others. The other boys in the choir all seem excited about our new position, but I’m afraid that they’ll snigger when they see how different I really am from all of them.

When Ralph said “Simon, come with me and Jack” I was so excited to have this proffer from our new leader! That fat boy wanted to come with us, but he would just slow us down.

On our expedition we discovered that this definitely is an island. It has a coral reef protecting it from ships and invaders from coming into our island that goes a little more than half way across.

I can hardly believe that we survived a plain crash. The massive machine must have been powerful to scar the palm fronds and trees the way it did. To think that one wrong move and it could have topples over crushing us into a pulp. Praise the lord that we all still live.

I don’t know if there are any adults on the island with us, but from where Jack, Ralph and I were all standing atop the mountain, it would seem that they were all swept away with the plane. That means no supervision, but it also means that we have an incredulous responsibility to make sure that no one gets hurt until we are rescued. We had to have a way to order so we decided to vote for a chief.

I‘m sort of disappointed because I wanted Jack to be the leader on the island? He’s already our choir leader anyways and I’m worried about how Jack will take it.

I feel that Ralph is only the leader because he as the shell. And if any other boy found a shell and blew on it, then we would probably have a six year old as our leader. Ralph can be the only on to blow the conch, for if he has some disease, then we have no disinfectant on an island, no medicine to cure the next boy who blows on the conch with Ralph’s deadly disease, no. Ralph must hold possession over the conch. However if we got rid of the conch then Ralph would be no longer chief. But we need the conch as our signal for peace and order. So I guess the conch will stay, and the only one to blow the conch will be Ralph who must remain our chief.