Creative Story : A Short Story

In the short story Connell writes that “‘sailors have a curious dread about the place”’ (Connell, 39). This shows foreshadowing because if the name did not already show it, even the sailors were scared of the island. It also stated that everything was “‘ like moist black velvet”’ (Connell, 40). Showing that whatever happened to the character, he would have never been able to make out anything since it was pitch dark outside, foretelling that when something happens to the character he will not be able to get back to the boat.

The passage ends on a note of suspense like the storm is going to return. The tightening of the hatches foreshadows that something bad is coming in the way of the ship.

Ralph decides to take the conch shell to Castle Rock, hoping that it will remind Jack’s followers of his former authority. Ralph blows his conch shell. Then Jack comes out and commands Ralph to leave his camp, and Ralph demands that Jack return Piggy’s glasses. Jack attacks Ralph, and they fight. Ralph struggles to make Jack understand the importance of the signal fire which would help them get rescued, but Jack orders his hunters to capture Sam and Eric. This sends Ralph into a fury, and he attacks Jack. Ralph and Jack fight for a second time. Piggy cries out, struggling to make himself heard over the fight. As Piggy tries to speak, hoping to remind the group of the importance of rules and rescue, Roger shoves a massive rock down the mountainside. Ralph, who hears the rock falling, dives and dodges it. But the boulder strikes Piggy, shatters the conch shell, and knocks him off the mountainside to his death on the rocks below. Jack throws his spear at Ralph, and the other boys quickly join in. Ralph escapes into the jungle, and Roger and Jack begin to torture Sam and Eric, forcing them to submit to Jack’s authority and join his tribe. The fire has burnt out. The next day Ralph is awaken with the smell of smoke and is forced to come out of hiding. He runs down to the beach and sees a navy officer. Ralph and the boys are saved. “His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” (LOTF page 202).

Ralph and Jack get into a quarrel over whether hunting or building shelters is the priority. Ralph rapidly notices the tension and pauses to avoid a rift. Readers see from this incident that Ralph is the ego of the island. He holds back his impulsiveness but ensures to convey his notion. Ultimately he succeeds in winning Jack’s acknowledging.

So far in the story the boys’ lives has developed a rhythm. The boy’s understand they need rules, but they fail to follow them causing fights and misunderstandings. On the beach, Ralph and Piggy see a ship on the horizon, but realize that the signal fire had gone out. Jack was so obsessed with the idea of killing a pig that the group of hunters fail to keep the signal fire going. Ralph and Piggy hurry to the top of the hill but they were unable to rekindle the fire, and the ship does not realize they are on the island.

Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea…

Alfred helped them get on the ship. Alfred begins to have a sinking feeling about the fate of this ship. They aren’t far from shore when three Russian torpedoes hit the ship. These chapters are powerful because they show you everyone’s reactions one at a time. The author helps you understand the urgency of evacuating and getting in a lifeboat.

He blundered out of the triangle toward the drop to the white sand. “Jack!” Jack turned and looked back at Ralph. For a moment he paused and then cried out, high-pitched, enraged. “—No!”(Golding 183)

But it dwelt on the boat, and each man felt it warm him. They were a Capitan, an oiler, a cook, and a correspondent, and their friends, friends in a more curiously iron-bound degree than may be common” (Crane pg. 587). The men use this comradery to keep them focused and to provide some form of normality as they float in the sea. Soon after this their resolve was tested when they located land but with no apparent means of rescue the reality of their place in the world is becoming apparent.” If I am going to be drowned-If am going to drowned-If I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and tress?

And Ralph, Jack, the chief, says it’ll be dangerous-” “-and we’ve got to be careful and throw our spears like at a pig.” “We’re going to spread out in a line across the island-” “-we’re going forward from this end-” “-until we find you.” “(Golding, 188) Roger is like Jack, dominate, savage and wants to be a leader. But Roger knows that he can’t overrule Jack so he stands back and helps him do his dirty

Soon it is learned that Jack is weary of killing the pig as he lets it escape but now has the taste for blood. In hopes for being rescued the boys build a fire to try and attract a ship or plane. The plan does not work although, because a ship passes while the fire is out. Leaving the boys with a sense of hopelessness. Ralph focused on building shelters and trying to build a signal fire again, reflects opposite on Jack’s behavior of needing to hunt not for food, but to kill. After the ship passes Ralph calls a meeting where it is learned the younger of the kids are scared of a so called ‘beastie’ which scares the others. Convinced and denying Ralph’s reasoning of that there’s no beast, one child suggests that it hides in the water during the day, causing a breeze of anxiety to flow through the clan. One night, while all of the boys are sleeping military fighting planes have a battle over the island and leaves a dead soldier in a parachute to land on the island. Sam and Eric, being on fire duty to keep it lit, heard the parachute “fifteen yards away from them came the plopping noise of fabric blown open” (98). Thinking it is the beast the twins run back to the camp in terror and insist the beast has attacked them. Jack and Ralph trek up the mountain to see and hunt the beast and discover the parachute. By then another meeting is held

When Ralph got out of the shower he went back to his room. He put on the soft, warm clothes that the uniformed man had showed them. It was the best feeling Ralph had in along time. Jack opened the door behind Ralph, he looked like a person again without the savage paint on. He sat by Ralph and they looked out the window at the burning island. Black smoke rose from the trees making a cloud above the island. Jack was first to break the silence, “Ralph, I’m sorry about what happened back there, survival self took over and I couldn’t control it.” Ralph shot back at him with a snarly face and barked, “Because of you Piggy is dead, because of you Simon is dead, Jack all you wanted to do was hunt, and all you wanted to do is eat! I warned you Jack, the smoke was the most important thing on

"Not too far off from London, now, lads," a sailor told them, taking a swig of the small flask in his hand. Ralph remained in the same agonized position; his back arched, elbows on his knees and his fists clenched with what little finger nails he had left, digging into his skin. Samneric were on his left, rubbing their eyes free of running paint and on his right was Maurice, who sat shivering. Ralph could feel the heat of Jack 's glare burning his scalp, so he raised his eyes to give him an uncertain look, but Jack turned his head to glare at the young sailor as his eyes met Ralph 's.

"Ha! Gotcha now, doll!" Byron had dropped Jill off at Charles' place, to pursue her. He was gaining on CJ; so much that he could see her dashboard. He tapped her bumper from behind, and latched onto it. They were attached for miles. CJ steered her car into the rural area of town. She geared it in reverse and jumped out the door. Byron was thrown through his back windshield. She ran from both vehicles, as far as possible. Byron was after her; he couldn't allow her to live with the truth. It was a brick wall; she was trapped.

the rising action: when the signal fire is let out and a boat passes by the island, when Jack