Widow's Cave Epilogue

“There Dr and Mrs. Cullen’s foster kids, they moved here from all the way down from Alaska like a few years ago” Jessica said

“Two days after we had set sail from the island of the cyclopes, a terrible storm blew my ships off course. The heavy gales swung us back and forth like a pendulum, and the waves nearly tore the ships in two. Like this we suffered for four days before we finally saw a sliver of land. We had arrived at Fídi, wooded island of the snakes. The island was immediately noticed due to the sturdy poplar and fir trees that lined its shore.

Early into the book, we are introduce to a plethora of characters who all seem to differ but are all very young, it starts with Ralph and Piggy, as they explore piggy brings up that they might be there forever: “ ‘We may stay here till we die’ with that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding engulfence.”(Golding, 14) The blinding engulfing simple refers to what they fear, the unknowing. Later into chapter one, a child brings up the thought at the first meeting of a beast roaming the island: “ ‘Beastie?’ ‘A snake-like thing. Ever so big. He saw it.’ “ Golding 35,36). After this was said the others went silent solely because of that idea and they don’t know what is on this uninhabited island they’ve crashed on.

Perplexed, he rushed out the mansion onto the beach and frantically searched for help, a way off the island, anything! To his displeasure, he perceived nothing that seemed useful for escape and when Rainsford spotted a vacant, lonely dock, he knew the transport ships were long gone and were not an option of escape. Although he was somewhat disheartened to learn about the ships, he was pleased to take in the refreshing wave of beauty that the view provided. Beyond the thriving, swaying trees, the sea was calm, like a slumbering, tranquil baby, and the sky was absent of any clouds. The soft breeze brought a sweet tropical scent that aroused his senses and reinvigorated his thinking. Rainsford recalled how he came to Ship-Trap Island and when General Zaroff mentioned the many sailors that were also stranded on the island. He wondered if there were still any sailors on the island. He decided to search the

“I don’t know. Tabitha took off with him a few hours before you guys showed up.”

|stuck in the trees. Later on the boys mistake this for the dreaded beast and mass fear and panic sets in. |

“I am not too sure,” she said quietly. “I have not been able to examine her or speak to her about that.”

As of right now, no where near the island has a boat so he can travel back home. “ There is no way I can go back if I can’t find a boat around the island.” Rainford considered.

Savannah then dropped the rest of her rocks, looked at me and said, “I think it’s gone now anyway.” as the cat slipped back into the forest. “But don’t let your guard down with any of Mount Harrison’s strays. They’ll turn on you just when you least expect them too.”

"Wait…" Percival narrowed his eyes. "The girls were wrapped in fine pink blankets. Very fluffy. Where did they come from?"

“No, but I feel as if everything I have ever thought of is gone,” I swallowed and then continued the gruesome journey to the other side of the island. After about an hour of silence, I heard a scream. Looking back I saw smoke and orange-red sparks fly from the ground. A billow of ash erupted around me. Through the commotion, I lost track of the others in my group. I fell to the ground, crawling through the flames that soared higher than the horizon.

Sophie backed up into the leaves of the tree. I was still dangling there with nowhere to go. The voices started to get closer until I finally seen who they were coming from. A man and a tiny

He stopped then quickly went over to the tree. “This… can’t be…” he gave it a closer look.

Gordon Grice’s compelling essay entitled “Caught in the Widow’s Web” uses a black widow spider to represent the evils of the world in a factual and eerie manner. In the beginning of the essay Grice discloses that he is a hunter of black widows and is intrigued by their mysterious actions. The black widow acts as a metaphor to exemplify the unknown evils of the world and throughout the essay a copious amount of information leads to a deeper meaning. Nobody knows for sure why the poison that the widow contains is so deadly, similarly to today's world where there is no real understanding of countless evils. Therefore, Grice’s true intention is to emphasize the point that nefarious people, and creatures exist, and sinful actions are done without known reason and that is the facts of life.

Jacob led me up a trail following the edge of a brook. The rippling water carrying rocks flowing downward along the trail’s edge helped to calm my nerves. Still, the thought of climbing up the steep rim of a mountain made my stomach weak.