Ending For Samphire By Patrick O'Brien
'As she pushed him, she felt her arms weak like jelly.'
Molly knew the force of pushing this boy was too much for her tired
arms, but he still fell downward, quite surprised by Molly's actions.
On most occasions the boy would have felt embarrassed by being pushed
over by a girl, but instead the boy stood up, stared at her and took
his trustworthy chameleon and left. Molly really wanted to catch this
figure up, but something, maybe her own pride, had pulled her back.
Instead she went and sat down beside the palm tree, recollecting her
thoughts on how to survive in this unknown island. She knew that she
was the only one that survived in the plane crash, so where did the
boy come from? And why was he accompanied by a chameleon? And why did
she push him, when all he did was stare at her? These questions
whirled around Molly's head until she went to a deep sleep.
As the native boy left he felt only respect for Molly's action. It
showed that she had a key strength of survival - courage. He knew that
she is one to be respected if they ever meet again. For now though,
his pet, which he names Lacey, was in desperate need for food, and he
walked onwards to the lake of swamps.
The lake of swamps was a lake that looked very abstract and gave a
rancid stink, but still retained some of its beauty. The mystical them
of the lake attracted the boy, as from generation from generation he
has been taught from his tribe that there is a mystical creature that
lives in the lake. The boy grabbed a small boulder and chucked it in
the centre of the lake, which stunned most of the fish upwards onto
the bank. The...
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...outh, because the creature could sense if
the human breathed underwater. But the boy could not take the girl
upwards, because she was wriggling frantically, trying to kick her way
out of the boy's grasp. The boy held on for dear life on her mouth,
but she kept fighting frantically until suddenly she stopped. She rose
above to the water as a motionless figure. The boy knew she was dead.
At utter surprise of Molly's death and that the boy knew he had killed
her, he shrieked in horror, tears rolling down his eyes against the
floating water. What he forgot was the mystical swamp creature. He had
motioned his mouth so the creature had grasped hold of him. The boy
fought for escape, but he, like Molly, came to no avail. The creature,
after one swirling motion of a hand, had knocked the boy out. The
boy's vision went black.
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The void in his hopeless eyes was immediately filled with anger. "I didn't kill anyone!" he yelled and tried to lunge at him but the boy was held back by the chains, "I tried to save them but I was too weak to do it on my own! You all left my friends to die..." he lowered his head as tears welled up in his eyes and flowed down his cheeks. "I begged and begged," his voice
her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and
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He turned his head toward me and peered at me through swollen eyes. “I begged her not to go with him,” he said quietly. “Do you hear me, I begged her!”
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his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in
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