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Lord Of The Flies Creative Writing Analysis

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Creative writing – Lord of the flies
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It’s was biased! I’m always the leader, I always want to be in charge ‘I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp’ (pg. 18) what did these kids think? I was always in control, that’s until Ralph was voted as a chef, even my choir voted for him and not me? I could never trust them, again. Inconceivable! I have more experience than Ralph. Ralph said that I will be ‘…in control of the choir’ (pg. 18). I assume that was fair enough, I decided that my choir will be hunters. To hunt for food, protect everyone and if a creature attacks, myself and my hunters will be ready. I was quite scared inside to hunt for animals, however, I know we have to survive one way or another. Eventually, when Ralph started showing his true colours, he was ‘...like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chef’ (pg. 138). If I was Ralph, I would’ve put all these foolish and unintelligent rules aside and let everyone live in freedom. He was mimicking the government, law, and order in England and the littluns didn’t understand, occasionally, I didn’t understand. I personally decided to cover myself and my hunters in dazzle paint, considering that when I go hunting ‘[The pigs] don’t smell me. They see me, I …show more content…

Everything went silent, Ralph fell to the ground, I looked up and saw a man in a clean uniform. He was a naval officer. Everything escalated quickly, I didn’t remember much of what happened next, as most of us boys ultimately passed out after crying. I’m currently laying in… what it seems to be a bed? In a room? And a blanket covering me and I was clean?! Confounded, I got up and walked to the window, the cold floor and this slight movement under my feet. As I came to the window, I looked out and saw the sea. The same sea where Piggy and Simon souls roam

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