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Good and Evil Chapter 1 The boys have crashed on an island and there is no sign of any grownups anywhere. The kids are trying to figure out how the leader will be Ralph and Jack are the two kids that stick out of the whole group so the put it to a vote. They decide to put Ralphat the chief position because he is the one who had brought everyone together in the first place with the “conch”. This is where Ralph as a good person begins to show because he is the leader and he is showing that he cares for the littluns. As kids began to cheer and clap for Ralph, Jack is seen in the conor clapping with an arrogant look upon his face. This is where we are introduced to the dark side of Jack and we start to see what he is soon to be. Jack shows his evil side once again at the very end of the chapter after he had fail to kill the pig Simon and Ralph wanted to know why he had not killed the pig. Jack Shouted “I was choosing a place. Next time!”(Golding 31). As Jack said this he thrust his knife into a tree in such an evil manner.

The way that people determine what is good or evil in this world is most of the time from your elders. The older people are the ones that teach you everything you know in life including what is good or evil. They also teach you the characteristics of good or evil people so that you can determine whether someone is good or evil on your own. A good person will do things that not everyone would do, because most people put themselves before other, but good people don’t do that they put others before themselves. An evil person will do everything to put someone down, they will do things that are mean for no reason other than to get a laugh out of what they did to someone.

Groupthink Chapter 2 “A fire! Make a fire! At once half the boys were on their feet. Jack clamored among them, the conch forgotten. Come on! Follow me!”(Golding 38). At this point Ralph had just told the boys that they should build a fire so that passing ships would see the smoke and come to get them. Jack takes things into his own hands and rallies all the boys to follow him to the top of the mountain before Ralph could finish what he was going to say. The boys begin to build the fire by getting wood from an area of the forest that has a lot of dead trees. After they had started the fire that only stays ablaze for a short time, Piggy brings to everyone’s attention that they had started to fires and that the other one was still burning down were they cleaner out the trees. Then Piggy brings up another point that one of the littluns was missing and they feared that he was trapped in the second fire.

Groupthink enters into a high school student’s life basically all the time. It could enter into their life with something like the clothes that they wear or what music to listen to. Groupthink also enters into social life of a high school student when they are deciding what to do with their weekend and even if the student drinks. The way that a student deals with this is either too gown to group or just let it pass them by. Most of the kids in high school though gown the group.

Civilization Chapter 3-4 Jack has just come back from another unsuccessful hunt Ralph starts to tell jack that he is not getting any help except from Simon to build these shelters. “They keep running off. You remember the meeting? How everyone was going to work hard until the shelter were finished?”(Golding 50). At this point Ralph feels like he is losing the focus of the littluns and some of the older kids because they are no longer helping him build. Simon and Ralph had built two other shelters and now were working on their third. They have had no help and Ralph asks Jack if he could stop hunting for the day and help build, but Jack was not having any parts of that he said that they need meat like he always said.

I feel that today’s modern civilization is doing barley well for itself. People today own their home and have places to sleep, they also have food to eat every night. I say barley because there are people that live on the streets that don’t have food to eat every night. And there is the economy which is not looking to healthy as of right now, but it is still well enough that people can still live rich lives without be.

Beelzebub Chapter 5 Ralph is having a meeting because he feels that he needs to go over things that he feels is going wrong in the group. As Ralph is going over the things that he needs to address he get to the point of the beastie. “You did, the other day. You said they dream and cry out. Now they talk-not only the littluns, but the hunters sometimes-talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal” (Golding 83). The boys are starting to talk about this “Beast” more and more and some of the older boys are starting to believe that there is something of in the forest. Despite all that Ralph and Jack try to down to stop these thoughts the boys continue to believe that there is a monster. Materialization is also present is the kite runner. The evil in that book came from Amir otter fear of everything. This evil came up all the time well he was little and he could never overcome it. The evil the Amir hand stayed with him for years and he could never truly shack it until he met Osaph again. Amir and Osaph got into a fight to settle problems from their childhood, Amir was the victor and he becomes stronger and is no longer scared and the evil was no longer there.

Nyctophobia chapter 6 The twins Sam and Eric had just woken up from a nap that they were not allowed to be taking because they were support to watching the fire that had gone out. After the fire was re started Eric notice something in the flickering light of the fire and he called for Sam, “They became motionless, gripped in each other’s arms, four unwinking eyes aimed and two mouths opened” (Golding 98). The two boys were like at the man that had fell from his plane, but because of the darkness the two boy assumed the worsted and run down the hill. They woke Ralph up to tell him that they had seen a “Beastie” that was only really a man with a parachute on, but because of the darkness and the kids fears for the dark they thought it was a beastie right away. It might be a big surprise but for as big as I am I have a fear of spiders, and it does not matter if it is the smallest spider in the world I will still freak out if I’m near one. Spiders scare me because of the way that they look and how they move with their eight legs. There really is not any time that I started to fear spiders I think that I have always had that fear, and I think I always will.

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Chapter 7 Today was a good day I’m still breathing and so are the biguns, I don't know what I would do without them. We all ate some more fruit but everyone is getting tired of it. We want on another hunt for the beastie and for food but it was unsuccessful Ralph almost had this pig, it was so big it could have feed us for months. On the hunt I heard the boys talking about climbing up the mountain to look for the beastie up there and jack turned to the other boys and said “All right. Who wants to climb the mountain now?”(Golding 119). I was going to step up and say that I would go, but I knew that they would tell me that I was too little and that I could get hurt so I just stayed in the back of the group. So as the biguns climbed the mountain well the others and I walked back to camp, and after a little the boys came running and yelling down the mountain. It scared me for a second but then I noticed that there wasn't anything following them. After they calmed down they said that there was a beastie up there. now i'm really scared and I hope that it doesn't come and eat us tonight. Till next time - Richard

Chapter 8 This morning was a little confusing and I hope the older boys can stop their fighting because it is scaring the others. it started when the conch want off and when we all got to the meeting place it was Jack that was holding it not Ralph. they were up there arguing about the beastie and how Ralph wanted to forget about the of the fire and start another one down on the beach. but jack wasn't having any parts of this so he started to leave. as he was leaving he said Ralphs” Like piggy. he says things like piggy. he isn't a proper chief (Golding 126), and this made me really mad and I wanted to stick up for Ralph and Piggy because they're both nice people and they haven't done anything bad. Jack was also saying that he was telling boys that if they come with him they would have food to eat and that his new group was going to be better but I would rather not have food then follow Jack because he is the meanest person ever. so I stayed with Ralph because I like him and he wants to get rescued just like I do. Till next time - Richard

Chapter 9 & 10 sorry I haven’t written in a while but the past two days have been crazy. First we were at a party that jack was holding which I don't understand why we were there because jack was being a meany to all of us. but we were there and as the party moved on all of a sudden something came running out of the forest and everyone thought it was the beast and we all yelled “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! do him in!” (Golding 152). but after some fatal blows we all saw that it wasn't the beast but it was Simon we all stood over the dead body in shock because we had just killed another human. after that everyone was saying that he had it coming jumping out of the bushes like that. the next day everyone was in shock and no one wanted to talk about what had happened that night. so we started a fire and went on with our day. but later that night well everyone was sleeping jack and some of him man came to our camp and stole piggy's specs so that they could make their own fire. Ralph was madder than I have ever seen him I thought he was going to hurt one of the littleness if they got into his way. till next time - Richard

Chapter 11 today was a sad day for me we lost a good kid and for a stupid reason I wish that I didn't happen but piggy was killed. we want over to the castle rock to get his glasses back but things were bad over there the kids were different and they all seemed to want to do harm to all of us. when we got there Ralph and Jack got into it right away and piggy had to whisper in his ear “remember what we came for. the fire and my specs “(Golding 177). but Ralph wasn't listening he kept on fighting with Jack so piggy tried to take things into his own hands but it didn't work and suddenly a boulder fell from above crashed into piggy throw him off the cliff and killed him. after that I ran back to the camp and hide the last thing that I saw was Ralph trying to run away from the group of kids. I really hope the Ralph got away. Till next time - Richard

Chapter 12 today is going to be the last time that I have to be on this island. we’ll all of the boys were chasing after Ralph a ship saw the fire that was started trying to scare Ralph out of a whole. it’s kind of funny when you think about it the one person that never wanted to help with the signal fire is the one who started the fire that brought the sailors to the island. but it makes me sad to think that only if we could have held it together for just a little longer those three boys would still be alive and they would be going home like us. - Richard