Lord of the Flies~Journal Entry #1

Chapter #1: A Lot of Confusion
Simon’s Journal

Today was a very interesting day to say the least. After school we were immediately evacuated by airplane. I was with no one I knew, and none of us knew where we were going.
The trip hadn’t lasted very long until something frightening and unusual happened. First, a fat guy with glasses and the same uniform everyone else had on yelled,” LOOK OUT THE WINDOW EVERYBODY!!”
I hate being in airplanes, and I knew this was going to be another unpleasant plane ride by the sound of the fat boys panicked voice. No more airplanes for me after this one, no way. A few seconds after the kid said to look out the window, everyone started screaming. I still hadn’t looked myself. I quickly looked out the window. It made me start screaming, inside, of course. What I saw was the nearly blinding sight of the other half of the plane on fire, and detached from our half. There was so much effulgence in the sight, but at the same time so much panic.
Sooner than I thought there was a big thud. I can’t remember arriving on the island, I can only remember thud. I probably fainted, what’s new? When I woke up a few other kids were staring at me. One of them asked me,” Are you okay?!” I replied,” Yes, I’m fine.” Since none of them knew me, they didn’t know that I faint frequently. Last I remember fainting though was during matins, over a week ago.
We had no idea what to do, until after what only seemed like minutes, we heard this blaring, ugly noise. It was coming from the south side of---what seemed like---an island. We started walking towards it, as decided with the few people I saw. Who knew how many people were on this “island”. We arrived at where the loud noise had come from, not knowing what to do. I started to faint—again!
When I woke up, people were arguing about who should be the leader. I didn’t know either of the nominee’s I guess you would call them, but I got a strong feeling of enormity from the one wearing a tog. I voted for the boy who said his name was Ralph, and felt a sense of communion out of the school boys. It had been a long, exhausting day and who knows what could happen tomorrow.