Lord of the Flies

an eg. for an intervention:

It was about 2am when the air raid siren sounded. Ralph sat nervously under the table in the air raid shelter with his fair hair plastered to his face, sweat dripping down his pale cheek. The warmth of his mother’s arms gave him comfort and the feeling of safety he so much longed for but still, he could not help the feeling of fear as he sat their awaiting the unexpected. Outside the sounds of bombs and gunfire would drill into their heads like a bad headache that wouldn’t go away. With every �bang’ Ralph and his mother would shudder. Although they were not being hit directly, the bombs were being dropped in fields close by and Ralph and his family were apprehensive they were going to be hit.

It was about 4am when there was a �lull’ in the bombing, Ralph and his uncle decided to look outside. As they stood at the front doorstep, they looked up and the whole sky was lit with a bright crimson glow and it seemed as though the city was on fire. After a couple of minutes the sound of enemy bombers could be heard coming from a distance. They quickly ran inside the house and crawled under the table. After a few minutes, a parachute mine landed at the end of Westcott lane. Every house on the street was torn inside out or badly damaged.

Ralph sedated by the blast awoke later that morning to find his mother running around what remained of the house.

“what are you doing mother?” he asked

“You need to get out Ralph; you need to go somewhere safer”.

“What! Where will I go?”

Ralph’s mother turned around kneeled over and stared him in the eyes. Ralph could see the fearful and worried look in her eyes, she was trembling and had sweat dripping down her pointed chin, and he could see she was afraid.

“I don’t know”, she started “but you cannot stay here, you’re not safe”.

She turned around and kept packing his bags and said,

“Your school is having an evacuation for all students wanting to get out of the country”. She turned around to look at him again, “I want you to go with them”.

Ralph was bewildered. He did not want to leave his family, but he knew he had to except his mother’s decision.

Later on in the day when Ralph and his mother had finished packing his bag, it was time to leave.

“Ok quickly now Ralph, you must leave before the school departs”.

There was a long silence between the two. Both standing opposite one another, Ralph ran and hugged his mother, tears running down his cheeks. He could taste the salt from the tears in his mouth with every quiver of his lips. She pulled him back her hands on his shoulders and said “Ralph, I need you to be strong for me, for you, for all of us. You need to be strong, make sure you are careful and remember I love you and Ill be seeing you soon”.

Ralph left his house not knowing of what the future had in store for him. He walked twenty minutes to school and when he got there he saw the large amount of boys. As there was only a limited number of boys allowed to travel overseas each of those boys were competing against each other to be able to make it out of the country. After registering he found himself in the middle of a huge room as just another number. The room was like a zoo, thousands of boys running around, making noise everywhere, the smaller ones crouched in the corner by themselves or with siblings and crying, the older boys bullying on the small unprotected boys. Then a whistle blew and a man appeared at the front of the room. He started to speak and although his voice was indistinctive Ralph could still make out some of the words. They were told that not all of them would be able to escape out of the country but, they were going to try as hard as they could to get as many on the plane as possible.

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