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Tucker Seryn

    During the Thanksgiving break, I went to Trinity Driving School. It was over four days for a total of thirty hours, and I had to take a test. I learned a lot about safety and how to control dangerous situations that might happen when driving. I have to take four driving test in January, and then I can get my permit.       I celebrated Thanksgiving at my aunt's house and saw my cousins. We played a board game and Pac-man. Then we went outside. We played football until it was too dark and then ate dinner. After dinner we all said bye and left. Thanksgiving was a nice break and I can't wait for Christmas.

Quote: PG. 150 151 “I gave you food and my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who will join my tribe?” “I will”   “Me” Thesis: William Golding creates a shift of power from Ralph to Jack to show the primal instincts a person has hidden inside them. The kids went to the feast to eat meat and have fun. After everyone ate, Jack asked the boys to join his tribe. A lot of kids changed sides at this point. Jack failed the first time he asked because he was at the platform that held a force of order. Now the kids were in the woods. They acted on their first instincts to chose a short term solution for survival instead of thinking it out and choosing to stay with Ralph who had a plan for rescue.

Thomas Christian

      I bring that ring with me everywhere I go. I wear it while working, eating, and even while I'm sleeping. I never take it off. When I visit my mother, I always polish it until it shines as bright as the sun, so she will always know that I remember him.       She is slowly getting worse everyday. Sitting in the hospital is driving her insane because she feels alone. Everyday I go to visit her in her room, tell her I love her, and talk about my father. He was a great man. We both loved him so much and were so sad when we lost him.       Three weeks later, I was at work when the hospital called me. My mother was almost gone and wanted to see me one last time. I walked in the room, sad but keeping back tears bravely. She had a box, a present she said. She gave it to me and when I opened it I cried. Inside was a ring, just like the one my father gave me. The ring represented the love he and his mother had for his father. He took it everywhere he went so it felt like his father

      In this passage, Ralph is stressing that the rules are the only thing that they have that disconnects them from savages by saying "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!" when Jack is breaking them. Jack says "who cares" and "Bollocks to the rules!" in this passage. Jack continuously shows that he doesn't care about order and life as civilized people in situations like this.       Jack is showing us that he is slowly turning more and more savage by rejecting civilized life. He shows his unhealthy addiction to hunting by saying "we're strong--we hunt!" in this passage. This disconnection from rules can be a form of foreshadowing to Jack breaking away from Ralph and becoming savage.

Christian Emma

      This weekend I went to an escape room with Cason, Evan, and Robert. It was the Tomb of Anubis. There were a few conspicuous clues, but most of the clues were hard to complete or find. In one of the clues, we had to smell fragrances such as rose to open a secret door. There was also puzzle pieces that we had to put together that took us the longest to complete. In the end, we barely ran out of time to get out, but the employee let us finish because we were so close. The escape room was really fun and exciting to do and would definitely do another one if I get the chance.

      In the most recent chapter of Lord of the Flies , Simon starts to talk to a pig head on a stick. Throughout the book, I took Simon as one of the people who would stay sane. The line where Simon says that Ralph specifically will get home and stay sane now makes sense because he knew that he and everyone else was going crazy.       Jack is slowly becoming more and more savage. He has become obsessed with hunting and gone insane. With his obsession with killing pigs, he even targeted a mother with piglets. I find this inhumane and terrible because they hit one of the piglets with their spear in the attack.