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     My Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. I went to Vicksburg, Mississippi to see my Mom's side of the family. At first I did not want to go, but I'm glad I did. It was a really fun time. I have 2 little cousins, 7 and 4 years old, they sound like a pain, but are really fun to play and hang out with. My family are big Mississippi State fans, so we watched the football game of them playing Ole Miss. Although the lost, it was still a goo game.      There was so much food on the tables, I had no clue where to start. There is always one dish that only one person likes, and I was that one person in my family. I got cranberry sauce on my turkey, and my whole family was looking at me like i was crazy. I had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

     "Jack made a rush and stabbed at Ralph's chest with his spear. Ralph sensed the position of the weapon from the glimpse he caught of Jack's arm and put the thrust aside with his own butt. Then he brought the end round and caught Jack a stinger across the are. They were chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring."      All throughout the book the characters have been losing there sanity. The author shows Jack going a little crazy at the very beginning of the book when he misses the pig. This paragraph shows that jack has fully gone insane. He is so crazy he is willing to kill a kid for the rule of the island. This shows the effects of human nature and what it can do to anybody.

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"The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea." (page 181) In this passage Piggy dies and so does the conch. This is a very symbolic passage in the book. The symbolism for the conch is civilization and order. When the conch breaks up into a million pieces and disappears that means that civilization and order is gone and no more of that. However, Piggy is symbolism for knowledge and intelligence. So, when Piggy dies all of the brains is gone from the characters, there is no more intelligence.

It was a rainy summer night. Tommy just accidentally stepped in a puddle on his way in to his house. He hurried in to clean off his shoes. He had never gotten them dirty, wet, or ripped. Even though he's been through so many things in his life time they still fit from when his grandfather gave them to him when he was 12 years old.      He had been through deaths, bad grades, punishments, wars, and many storms. His mom walked and asked him "Tommy why in the world do you still care for those shoes? They are so old." Tommy replied "Mom you know papa gave these to me right before he passed, I want to keep these as good as new." Tommy's mom answered with "Oh yeah I'm sorry baby I forgot, that is very sentimental of you to care for them still." Tommy said "it's ok i just know papa is always watching me and taking care of me so I'm always gonna take care of him." Tommy could not be more grateful for these shoes.      In this story

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     This Saturday was very eventful. On Saturday, I had to wake up early to go to football. Football was not fun sense the coaches were mad that we lost the game. After football I went home and accidentally fell asleep for a while. When I woke up there were many texts saying come to Dylan's, so I went to Dylan's. We watched the LSU vs Alabama game, and swam. When I jumped into Dylan's pool I went so high I flailed my arms, and hit the water.      After we got out of the pool we were all sitting outside, and watching the LSU football game. It was a good game on both sides of the ball. Although, LSU lost they still played good. When I was getting up to go to the bathroom outside of Dylan's I accidentally bumped into a table , and broke it. Dylan was not happy, and made me clean up the mess. I had a interesting Saturday.

      Lord of the Flies has been a very good read so far. It really makes me think about humans. Would all humans act this way, or are they going crazy because they do not know what's going on? To be honest, I do not even know how I would react in this scenario. I hope I would react good, and not go crazy. I think I would actually grasps what's going on around me, and use some common sense that there is not beastie.      Piggy to me is the only sane person in the book. Some people would say that Ralph is also sane, but I think he is quite crazy. The longer they stay there, the more they argue, and the worst it gets. Ralph and Jack are going to reach breaking point, and end up fighting each other I think. As long as they have good shelter and enough food and water the be able to survive until they get rescued. However, they do not have either of those, they need to make stable shelters with branches and trunks, and they need to hunt more.