Lord of the Flies: Journal #1

Chapter 1 - The Sound of the Shell

Day 1 - by Simon

It was just a normal day, or at least I thought it was, like every year we got on the plane to go back to school, then it happened, and I didn't realize what was going on and the next thing I knew our plane crashed in the middle of nowhere. We realized that there were no adults and naturally Jack took charge of the rest of the choir and me, he made us walk for miles and miles trying to find any sort of civilization.  All of this walking was very tiresome and it was very hot, it did not help at all that we were wearing those uncomfortable hambone frills.  

As we were about to reach the top of  mountain a strange sound filled the air, it was sort of like a trumpet, but different, as soon as we heard it Jack made us go all be way back down the mountain we had just climbed, and follow the strange sound that we knew nothing about, for all we knew it could have been some sort of monster or something. As got closer to the mysterious sound I have to admit I started to get kind of scared, but exited at the same time.  The mysterious noise turned out to be nothing but a boy with hair of tow blowing on some type of shell, there were other boys with him, and I recognized all of them from the plane, they must have survived the crash as well.  Jack told us to get in line while he talked to the boy who was blowing the horn, then all of a sudden I guess the heat really got to me because I fainted. 

When I woke up I heard everyone talking about having a chief, so all of a sudden out of nowhere I said "why don't we vote", I guess no one knew that I had woke up, because every one was surprised to hear my voice "yeah! lets vote", "yeah", "yeah", "yeah", was all you could hear everywhere.  So we had a vote, and Jack was not happy about it, because he knew he was not going to win, and he didn't, Ralph did, I think that he will, make a great chief.  As his first order in being chief Jack decided to have himself and two other people explore the island.  First he choose, Jack, then to my surprise and everyone else's he choose me!  

Once again we went up that huge mountain, but this time we actually stayed up there for a while.  We a huge rock, probably the biggest rock I have ever scene in my entire life, we all looked at each other "1, 2, 3" and we pushed the rock, it fell all the way to the bottom of the mountain, as we watched it roll down we were proud of our accomplishment.  On the mountain we discovered that we really were on an island because we were completely surrounded by water. It was getting late and we were starting to get hungry, we found a baby pig and Jack was about to kill it, but it ran away. Our first day on this island wasn't all that bad, I wonder what we will have to encounter in the future, I hope we won't have to stay here forever.