The Island

The Island (based on Lord of the Flies)

Having crashed onto this unknown island, survival seemed almost inevitable, especially after the deaths of the pilot and our English teacher Mrs. Ammon. All 15 pupils of the grade 10a had miraculously survived the crash. This led to a unity among the class, which eventually deteriorated.

Everybody was in a state of shock, and it took some time for everybody to find one another. The last person to be found was Jasper Kessel, who had jumped into tree, in order to get a better view of the island. Everyone was extremely excited to see one another, except for Ingrid Fossati, who had some how vanished. The whole class set out on a search, which ended with no result. This only ended in Jasper also vanishing, but nobody bothered in searching for him, because he had a lot of experienced in the African Bush and would probably survive by himself.

The rest of us went back to the deserted beach and just sat there thinking about what exactly had happened, but nobody was quite sure. With a deep, commanding voice Dominic Neill, the class representative, stood up and told the rest of us to just forget about what happened and to look towards the future and surviving this disaster. Everybody agreed and was assigned to specific jobs. All the males of the class, which consisted Max Keichel, Max Brandt, Siv April, Dominic Neill and myself (unfortunately not Jasper), had been assigned to all the labor work. This included trying to build some sort of shelter, find food, make a fire and try and find some useful items, that had maybe been in the plane, that could help us in our fight for survival. The females, Kirsten Zwinscher, Florianne Griffion, Leonie Volke, Helen Dedekind, Nyasha Herberg, Nathalie Vogel and Stephanie Chie, but not Ingrid (who was still missing), were given the duties of collecting fruit and giving the males massages after their hard day of labor. These duties only started on the next day. So all the females took advantage of the radiant sun and just tanned, whilst the males found some fruit and shared with all the females. The first night everybody just slept on the beach.

Unfortunately all the Girls (except for Nyasha) had been sunburned and therefore struggled to fulfill their duties. We males all set out into the thick jungle, where we looked for small rodents.