All I Can Say Is Thank You

I’m by myself, I have absolutely no companion and I’m bleeding like crazy –Jack has stabbed me on the ribs and I’m trapped here in the bushes with nowhere to go. I feel like crying, but again, I can’t let The Lord of the Flies win. I will try to defeat him, for Piggy and Simon, and for civilization and humanity –I simply can’t let the evil devil win this game. I have pain everywhere and I’m hungry, the smell of the roasting pig tempts me but I’m no savage; remember that! Anyway, I’ll have to survive alone now. I find a little hideout in the forest and my eyes perceive something that makes me throw up. It’s a head’s pig on a stick –must have been one of Jack’s art works. It seems alive and it’s honestly the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. It looks like he knows all the answers but won’t tell. I get rid of it by taking the spear out of it; whatever it was it’s gone. I make my way to Castle Rock and I’m able to talk to Samneric. They give me food, yet won’t accompany me. They say Jack and Roger want to kill me, but why? I run; run for my life and fall asleep in the thicket. I’m alone.

I wake up to the sound of a fire? A fire! They have lit the island on fire so I have no way out. Smart one Jack; you will have no way out either. They’re looking for me, I can feel them very close and they are approaching, threatening Sam or Eric to say where I’m hiding. They’ve got me, they know where I am, I try to hide but the fire is spreading and they’re after me. I run for my life and realize for the last time how they are not boys, the beast dominates them all -The Lord of The Flies. I listen to their screaming, they wanna kill me once and for all. Maybe it is my time too; at least, I’ll be safe in Heaven. As soon as I’m about to give up, I fall to the ground and there’s a man looking down at me: a naval officer. He must be thinking the same thing as me, how the hell did this happen? I look at the island around me that has been my home for many months and is now burning; The Lord of the Flies within it.

We are safe. I am safe, we have finally been rescued, and I’m glad to be on my way back home. I’ve learned so many things from this experience, beginning with the fact that we all have a beast inside of us. I just can’t be mad at anyone. Jack was the worst on this island but by lighting it on fire he saved my life. I will have to thank him rather than to hate him. Surprisingly I will also have to thank The Lord of the Flies, for teaching me what lives within humanity. 

- Ralph