Blaire Apple

Miss Couden didn't like my 1,000-1,500 word rough draft today.


Lord of the Flies is a smashing and daring novel by the late William Golding. It starts out with this kid walking around after a plane he was riding crashed on an island. He runs into a fat kid, and they run into some more kids. They are all on this island without adults. The first kid finds a conch, and the person with the conch is the one that gets to talk. The kids form two different groups, and they all do things on their own. The kids build a fire, and some of them die. At the end of the novel, a guy shows up to rescue them from the fiery depths of hell. This tale shows just what evils are lurking in the depths of the human soul, waiting to surface when there is no force to suppress them. Blair did not write this. He won’t know I put this in here, because he won’t even bother to read it. He is such an idiot. I’m only doing this because he paid me twenty dollars.
As this intriguing novel begins, we find many innocent boys stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere. Some are scared, but most realize that they must create some kind of order for them to live by. They pick a young, handsome boy, Ralph, to be their leader. Jack, another boy, shows distaste for this choice, but tries to hide it from the others. Ralph tries to be a good leader, but some of his brilliant plans backfire all over his face. He tells the boys to gather up stuff to burn, so they can build a fire to create smoke for signaling to passing people that they are there. They collect many good fire conductors, and they get the fire started. As luck would have it, their main source for getting firewood ends up catching fire, and a little boy dies in the flames. One of the boys then decides to see a monster. They call it a beastie. This is the point where the boys become scared of their surrounding. This is the fear that eventually drives them to animal behavior. I must quit now because my dad is getting mad at me for being in here.