Adventures with Davie and Enos Part 24

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Part 24.....Starting to pull it all together

Mr. Moto informed Enos of the school board's decision about letting me model in the nude to all graphics art classes. He had given Enos a copy of the release form that Ms Green had my parents sign that allowed me to model in her class and the school thought it wise if they got a release for Mr Moto's class too. The school officials weren't about to take any chances of a misunderstanding when it came to allowing anyone, much less a student, to model nude in any program.

Enos carried his camera around all the time and he snapped a shot whenever he thought the situation was right. Yes, the little imp did actually take one of me sitting on the throne in the boys rest room and standing at the urinal too. I said "Hey Enos, you know you can't use those kind of shots, why did you take them?"

"I'm the one who will decide what photos I'll use or not use, not you. So if I want to take a shot of you biting your toenails or something like that I'll do it. Remember I have permission."

"You do not. Somethings are private and by the way, I don't bite my toenails either, so just stop."

Enos just laughed and said "I thought you said you loved me and yet you won't let me make my own decisions. What's with you anyway?"

"I'm sorry Enos you're right, I do love you. All I ask is that you let me go potty without having a camera peeping at me. OK?' How would you like it?"

"Ok, Davie, I promise no more potty photos."

Hey, not to change the subject, but I have been meaning to ask you something about Jake. Remember when we jerked off at the quarry,? I made a remark about the waste it was to see our cum flying to the ground ? Jake let me know he thought it was a waste too."

"Would it bother you if I sucked him off and maybe let him suck us off in return? Maybe we could do a threesome or something like that. Would that make you jealous or anything?"

Enos replied "I don't mind letting him fool around with us. If he asks us. It doesn't mean he is trying to break us up. All it means is he likes to do what we like to do, and that is to experiment with each other. If I think he is getting to romantically attached to us, I might say something, and I bet you would too, especially if you thought he was hitting on me and leaving you out by yourself. If he asks let him know you are all for it and that he should ask me."





On the other side of town

*****Josh

Even though we usually spent time with our own families on Saturday afternoon we have been going to Amanda's house since the special study started. I was happy because it gave me more time with Amanda. Jason was tailing behind me as we walked up to the door. Amanda said her parents were home but we could use the mini apartment located above the garage for our study. Jason was really into his health kick now and wanted to know if it was ok for him to exercise while Amanda and I discussed the lesson. He knew we wanted to smooch and he was giving us some private time to do that. He asked if it was ok to let Tyler and Jeremy, two of the muscle boys, come over to coach him. Since there were two rooms over the garage. I didn't care and Amanda didn't care either. We both liked kissing each other.

Jason was really trying his best to work his program. He was not yet ready to lift weights for body building purposes, but he was exercising to keep his muscles loose and flexible. Jason was still dressed because Amanda's parents were still home.

Amanda went inside the house to take care of some personal feminine business. It was her time of the month and when she returned she said "Good News, my parents decided to visit some friends and will not be home until midnight."

Since I had Tyler's phone number I called him and he said he would be right over. When he arrived I let him know Amanda and I were going inside for the next two hours and "you two can workout without being bothered.' We will be back when we finish our time together.

****Jason

"I was happy Tyler came over. He said "Jeremy wasn't home, but if I didn't object, he would call Doug to come over. Doug was one of the muscle boys too. He wasn't in my school so he was probably in Tyler's class.

Doug was cute. He stood 3'10 inches, 1 inch taller that Tyler and both were in the 75 -76 lb. range. He had a bubble butt, developed from years of ice and roller skating. Beside being muscular he was also very flexible. Tyler on the other hand was more leg heavy and had strong leg muscle from a lot of bike riding and his upper muscle portion, even though you could see the definition, was a work in progress. Dough had been lifting about a year before Tyler started.

Doug said "You don't look like your ready to workout, how come you are still dressed.? I said "Sorry, Amanda's parents where here when we arrived and they just left. I just didn't think you would be here so fast. If you give me a second I'll be ready.

Both Tyler and Dough were wearing wrestlers singlets. Although they weren't practicing together, They both were working on their wresting when they were called.

I immediately stripped bare and they boys looked me over before Tyler said "give me twenty." I got into the push up position and gave them twenty. I had been practicing every day and increased by two each day. Exercise is not body building, although you shouldn't do body building without exercising first.

Tyler said "Good job. Just for that we are going to teach you how to wrestle." He continued "Just so you know the style, we will teach you is known as the Freestyle. Freestyle is also known as collegiate, scholastic, or folkstyle wrestling. That basically means you can attack both above and below the waist. The Greco-Roman style only allows attack above the waist."

We didn't have a mat but there was a carpet on the floor so that would have to due for now.

Doug told me they were going to show me the starting or neutral position and some of the takedown holds first . They said I was to try to prevent being taken down. He added "You can not bite, grab my cock or balls, or bend my fingers back, to get out of the hold. We will explain all the rest of the rules as we progress.

I was not athletically inclined and had very little experience when it came to wrestling with other kids because I avoided contact games. But I did enjoy the grab ass games we played when we skinny dipped at the quarry pond.

Shit. I didn't stand a chance, I found myself flat on my back on the rug in mere seconds. Quite frankly, I was afraid they were going to inflect some serious hurt on me. Both of them were laughing and I guess I must have looked stupid.

Tyler said "Watch us. We will show you some holds in slow motion and then we will do them with you so you can sense what is happening."

They both started in the neutral position and Tyler grappled a move on Doug and pulled him into a position which would allow him to make another move without losing control of his position. Then he stopped. They did it again only this time Doug used the same moves on Tyler.

Then it was my turn. Tyler directed my arms and had me copy his moves against Doug and when we finished, we did the same thing only, Doug moved my arms against Tyler. They counted as we did each step. and each step was a separate count.

I couldn't help it. When they started to touch my arms and move my body into the proper positions, I sprung a boner and it stayed hard the whole time we were practicing. Both boys were laughing at me and purposely touched my boner as we worked.

Tyler said "Don't worry about it. We all do that when we start out and sometimes during a match. We wear compression briefs under the singlet which helps protect us and some even wear athletic cups in their jocks, but most don't like to use cups. If you weren't naked, we wouldn't even notice, but I like you better this way." Doug chimed in with "So do I."

I felt more relaxed as we worked out for almost two hours. They showed me more and more holds. They let me know that as I worked on building up my muscles I would be better at wrestling.

I was pretty scratched up from rug burns, but I was still hard. The boys loved to feel my package when we took some breathers. As we were about to quit for the day, Tyler said I have to apologize for the way we treated you in the barn. We though it was fun to torment a 12 year old boy who was tied up and that allowed us to do what ever we wanted to do to you. We thought it was fun. Now that I know you better, I feel guilty and want you to know I'm sorry."

My reply was "I really didn't have a choice back then, I had to take whatever you did to me since I was tied like you said. I know it is weird, but I enjoyed it as much as you did. For some reason I get turned on by being treated like that. I'll do it again anytime you want."

Tyler said "I liked when you sucked my penis the best. That gave me some wonderful strange feeling that I just loved. Do you think you can do that for me and Doug right now?"

"I'll be happy to, consider it my thanks for my wrestling lessons. One other thing.....If you want to enjoy it, you had better take your singlet off."

I'm not sure that a stop watch could have timed Tyler and Doug as they stripped bare. I took on Tyler first. I sucked his hard 3.5 inch dinkie and savored the taste. I licked his balls and his shaft like it was candy. He was bucking his hips as he had his dry cum. That was the feeling he was talking about.

When he backed off I took Doug into my mouth. His prick was 4 inches hard. Not bad for a 10 year old. I had never sucked him before and I had to register his aroma in my memory bank as I devoured his cock. He was twitching his prick-let as I sucked. I loved that action and took my time, I loved feeling his bubble butt and was exciting myself even more as I kept rubbing the tip of my finger over his ass hole. Wow! he was really moaning loud when he had his dry cum. He just trembled as his body shook from the wild feelings that were coming up from his groin.

The sound of applause made us turn our heads towards to door. There stood both Josh and Amanda. "Great show, guys. We loved it." They had seen the whole thing and I know at least two boys who were extremely embarrassed. I wasn't one of them.

I just said "Hi" as both Tyler and Doug ran to get their singlets back on to cover their nudity.

Tyler said "We have to go now. Thanks for inviting us over. Please don't tell on us." and out the door they went.

Amanda said "Jason you even look cute when you have a penis in your mouth. Would you do that to Joshua and let me watch. I might like to do that to him some day and since you seem to be an expert, you can teach me what to do to please him."

I said "Ask Joshua, I do what ever he wants me to do. He is my boss when it comes to teaching."

She turned and gave Joshua a kiss and whispered. "Please tell him to do it for me."

He said "If you undress me, I'll tell Jase to suck me off.

She stripped him. She started with his shirt, next off came his sneakers and socks and finally his shorts and boxers.

I took his cock in my hand and licked the helmet of his dick. I licked the precum off of his pee hole and then continued up and down his shaft. He was as hard as he could get.

I found out later they they spent all that time alone kissing and feeling each other up and they never took any of their clothes off. I guess that is why he blew his load almost as soon as I started to lick him. He was fully charged and need the release. I sort of grinned to myself because I was thinking that whenever she finally sucked him, she might be a little nervous and it might take her considerably longer for her to get him off and psychologically she will feel inferior to me.

The taste of his sperm never seemed to change. I just loved the sweet cream he gave me and I was hoping that he would always come to me to clean his pipes rather than go to her.

She thanked me so much "for showing me how to do it properly."

Since her parents might be back at any time I got dressed and we went back into the house and started our discussion about our special project.



********* Davie

We returned to the farm and searched in the wood for some straight limbs that blew down. We needed to shave the bark off and make points in the ends. We were going to use them to resemble the spears that the hunters in the story used. It was our plan to do some photographic work next.

Jake showed up and we got some real closeup shots of us in action. I also took some shots of Enos too. We had made arrangements for a sleepover at Enos' house tonight because of a school holiday on Monday. We were going to sleep in his tent and then spend the next day copying and editing photos for our report. I thought we were also going to do some editing of photos he took of me for his own report, but he wouldn't let me see them.

When we got back to school I was called out of my first class and met with Sandy. She told me that I would no longer be under surveillance and I stripped and took off the wire. She told me she deleted the tape that was recorded of our activity over the week end. She said "I thought those moments were private and there was no need for everyone to know about my private time with Enos and Jake.' I was red in the face but I gave her my thanks in the form of a hug and a whispered "Thanks for helping me." She gave me a kiss on the cheek.

I asked Enos and we sent her an autographed 8 x 10 photo of me posing for the art class.



We were fast approaching our fall break and my posing days were over at the art class. I got my first chance to see the work each students completed work. I autographed each one and personalized each with a note too.

I got a kiss from each student too. Oh yeah, Terry and Jerome kissed me too. On the cheek.

Ms. Green and the art teachers from the High School graded the finished works. I had no say in the grades nor a voice about anyone's work. I was strictly the model. They also posted the series of pictures Enos took of the class on classroom wall. They were all taken from various angles showing the backs of the students and me in the center posing. They also included the shots of the them showing my back and the faces of the art students as they worked. In all there were 12 photos everyone of which, had a shot of my nude body in the photo.

When they held parents night at the school there was a line of parents and students, who wanted to see that group of photos. I thought Enos was going to make a pile of money on the side, but he said he had refused all offers. Although he admitted he was tempted.

Enos' photo essay was also on display in the Photographic Art class. He had put together and album along with a slide show that was projected on a screen in that classroom. (That was the first time I got to see the photos he took of me. Enos also told me he would give me a look at all the photos that he didn't use in his report.) Once again I was the star. I had long past the stage of being embarrassed. Actually, i was enjoying the attention I was getting. Even some of the jock boys were nice to me. I think it was because their girl friends all admired me and the girls were letting the jocks know they were not going to have a chance with them if they were going to bad mouth Davie.

When Sunday arrived, Enos and I got an early start at the farm. We had to finish all our customers who didn't mind us mowing their yards on Sunday. We had wasted a few work days already on our special school projects. The farm took a couple of hours. Benny's yard took about an hour and his Grandmothers yard took an hour. Billy and his neighbor asked us to come back during the week. We were ok with that. Jake joined us in the afternoon.

The weather was about to change to Autumn. The grass had peaked and wasn't growing as fast. That meant with us getting a little off schedule wouldn't bother our customers that much. Since fall was fast approaching, we decided we had better get our class project into its final form.



The Nature of Boys Growing Up



The Nature of Boys Growing Up is the theme we concluded would prevail in our evaluation of our read of Lord of the Flies. Enos, Jake and I had finished reading and were now in the process of reviewing each chapter. We then hoped to draw conclusions and outline them into a theme we could present to the class that would show how the story reflects on us as persons growing up in society. We also hoped to use other sources to support our conclusions as we found them. We decided to list the information we discovered chapter by chapter and to analyze it using various references including The Facts of Boy Life (cited above.)

All of us had read the the story. We discussed what it must have felt like to have to be flown out of the country where you lived because of the danger of the country being bombed with an atomic bomb. We wondered how scared the boys, who were all English attendees of a private school, must have been when the plane they were on was shot down by another plane some where over the Pacific Ocean and how frightened they must have felt when it crashed landed and broke apart and most of the passengers were ejected all along the crash route. The survivors called that route the "Scar". Apparently only about thirty boys survived and all the other passengers including all of the adults were lost during the crash. A storm washed the plane and all the remains out to sea..

In chapter one, the first character we meet was Ralph. He was 12 and described as a boy who had the physical characteristics of growing into a boxer. He was alone on a sandy area of the shore line between the sea and the jungle. The next boy to appear was a boy who was slightly younger, was obese, and had various health problems. He wore thick glasses and had asthma. The boys met and wondered if there were any other survivors. Both boys decided to go for a swim and stripped down and went skinny dipping.

After their swim they found a Conch shell. and the fat boy who was called "Piggy." suggested Ralph use the shell as a trumpet and to blow it and see if anyone responded. Quite a few heard it and did respond. Only a few of the boys were Ralph's age. Some of the others were as young as 6 years old. They were in various stages of dress from tattered clothes to no clothes at all . Another group of 18 boys, who were choristers, came out of the jungle. All these boys were wearing choir robes and hats and were led by a boy named Jack who was also 12.

Jack was described as 12. a redhead and a bit of a tyrant because he ignored apparent pleas, from the choir troop, to let them take off the robes due to the heat in the jungle. He totally ignored them. One boy actually fainted.

All the boys who responded, gathered around Ralph who said "apparently we are alone and we must organize so we can take care of our basic needs." (Food and Shelter.)

Being good British boys who knew how to follow parliamentary procedures, they decided they needed to elect a leader. Jack thought he should be leader because he was already the leader of the choir group, but Ralph appeared to be a leader because he was responsible for calling this whole group together in the first place. Ralph won the election. He in turn appointed Jack as the Chief of the Hunters.

Ralph, Jack and Simon (The boy who fainted.) explored their physical location by climbing to the highest peak they knew of. They found they were on an island and there was no sign of human life on the island.

We get a hint of Jack's innate character when, on the way back from their search, he botches up the opportunity to kill a pig caught in a snare. He vows "Next time there will be no mercy."



We discussed how we would illustrate some of the scenes. Jake said he remembered seeing a Conch shell at one of the landscape nurseries and he would ask his mother to buy one. He thought they could do it after church tomorrow. Enos said If we get the conch that he could photograph me, with the conch at the quarry pool after, we complete our work there.

Enos had already told us during the week that Benny had made copies of the tapes we were interested in reviewing and he has downloaded them to disks for us. He had to keep the originals due to insurance company regulations.



In chapter two, Ralph explains, to the entire group, what they had found. "We are on an island, We have been on the mountain top and seen water all around. We saw no houses, no smoke, no foot prints, no boats, no people."

Ralph announces since there are no grownups on the island that "We will have to look after ourselves" and he starts to establish some rules of order. One of which was that the one who possess the Conch would have the floor.

Jack broke in and added "All the same you need an army -- for hunting. Hunting pigs." He added "We'll have rules! lot's of rules!"

One six year old boy, with a mulberry-colored birthmark on his face, Tells everyone, he saw a 'beastie', a snake like thing, in the jungle during the night time. Everyone laughs him down and Jack says "we will look for it while we hunt."

Their thoughts turn to their hope of being rescued and Ralph suggests building a signal fire on the mountain to signal a passing ship that they are on the island. Jack and the hunters are are appointed to maintain the fire.

Hearing that they were going to build a fire, everyone abandoned Ralph, who was holding the conch, and went to gather wood for the fire. That action, lets us know that no one was paying any attention to the authority of their elected leader.

Piggy described their actions. "Like kids! Acting like a crowd of kids!"



As they gathered wood for the signal fire, Jack and Ralph found a log that was quite large. Ralph said "Almost too heavy.' Jack answered, "Not for the two of us." Giving us a notion - that there could be something gained through cooperation.

The boys used Piggy's glasses to light the fire. (We will ignore the fact that Piggy suffered from myopia and lens ground to correct that condition wouldn't focus the suns rays to kindle a fire.)

Ralph knowing everyone had ignored him before when they went off and left him said "We need more rules." Jack agreed and said "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things."

No sooner said, the fire got out of control and burned a quarter square mile of the jungle and consumed a great deal of their signal fire fuel supply. They all realized that they need to be more careful or they may never be rescued. "How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?" was Piggy's comment.

It was then that they realized the the boy with the birthmark on his face and possibly some of the other little 6 year olds may have been incinerated in the wild fire. They really didn't know how many little kids were on the island.



The three of us thought we could gather some of the blown down wood from the woods around the quarry pond and pile then up an burn it and film it for our report. I said, "I will check with Benny to make sure there was no ban on burning in effect."

We all felt satisfied that we had the first two chapters under control. We realized we might have a problem if we delayed to long because outdoor picture taking would be tough, at best, if it suddenly got to cold.

I commented that I was looking forward to standing by the water, naked and blowing the Conch shell.

Enos said "you don't have to wait for us to find a shell if you want to be naked and blow a horn. I'll be happy to let you blow my horn right now if you want to. Jake you're welcome to watch."

Jake said "You can blow my horn too, if you like."

This was what we wanted to hear. We needed to know just where Jake stood about the three of us messing around together. I knew he told me he was gay, but that still didn't tell me he was open to threesomes and now he just let us know where he stood.

I started to strip and said."Come on let me at those little blow things."

That earned me a punch on my arm from Enos.

I was completely naked before they even had their pants off. I guess I just had to much practice.

I reminded them that we were being taped and whispered "No loud moaning allowed because the cops may show up if they think you're hurting me."

Since they both giggled, I knew they weren't to concerned who knew we were fooling around together.

As promised, I started to suck Enos first. I had Jake stand along side him and took turns sucking both by alternating between them. I looked up and saw that their faces were showing the excitement they were experiencing.

I could also see that Jake was rubbing Enos' backside. I didn't notice him leaning down, so I didn't think he was playing with his ass hole, but I knew he was massaging his cheeks. I was delighted when Enos came first. He pushed into me and let his cum fly. He filled my mouth. That told me he was really turned on.

When I sensed he was finished, I moved back to Jake to finish him off. That is when Enos got on his knees and started to play with Jakes backside. Jake erupted and he too filled my mouth. He shot more than Enos and I lost some of the precious juice down my chin. I swallowed all I could and when he pulled off Enos came over and licked my chin before planting a juicy kiss on my lips.

Jake knelt down and said "Save some for me" and I kissed him too.

Jake said "Holy Mackerel ! I can't believe how hot you two are. I love to suck cock and fool around, but you just blew me away. This was so sexy, I am breathless. Show me more."

Enos laid down on the picnic table and said "Do me now"

Jake bent over and sucked his penis into his mouth. He was licking Enos' pistol all over. I went behind him and spread his ass cheeks and licked his butt. I got right down to his hole and lapped his tight little anus with my tongue. He was moaning as loud as Enos was. I kept it up until Enos came in his mouth. Jake lost most of it and it as all over Enos pelvic area. He stood up and looked at the cum and started to backup. I saw the opening and went right after my lover's cum and cleaned him up with my tongue.

It was now my turn on the table and Jake started to suck me. He said he was gay but he sure didn't have much experience when it came to sucking a dick. I knew it was going to be fun teaching him.

In the mean time, Enos was fingering Jakes ass hole. Enos was sticking his fingers into Jake's anus and finger fucking him. I knew Enos was not to fond of licking anyone's anus, he loved being a top.

Jake was bobbing on my dick and every once in a while I felt his teeth rubbing. That turned me on and I shot all I could into his mouth. I guess I was nasty because I held his head on my dick the whole time I unloaded. If he never swallowed before, he didn't have much choice this time. When I finished, I let him loose. He didn't have much spillage this time. I couldn't help myself and I kissed him. Yes, his mouth was still loaded with some cum so I held the kiss until he had no choice, but to gulp for air. He swallowed it all that time.

"Lordy!, You guys must be pros! I never felt this turned on, ever, and I thought I knew everything. Jake continued "I didn't know hardly anything. When I sucked before, we always pulled off and finished by hand. I thought that was exciting, But this is totally awesome! Thanks for bringing me up to another level."

It took a little time to settle down, but we wanted to finish our project and now that we took care of our serious business it was time to do our homework.

Together we produced this chapter by chapter outline:

Chapter 3: Jack has now equipped himself with a spear and continues to hunt. So far he has caught nothing. Ralph, Simon and Piggy are the only ones who are building shelter for everyone. Ralph complains that at the meetings everyone is excited about the projects and being rescued but as soon as the meeting is over everyone goes back to playing , swimming or doing their own thing. No one is helping to solve any of their problems. Piggy notes "People never are as they seem." Jack and Ralph start to argue about each others efforts. Ralph wants more of the group to be involved in building. Jack doesn't want to hear it. He is focused on killing a pig. They try to appear friendly by skinny dipping together, but the underlying problem of working for overall group safety vs spending our efforts on getting meat for everyone is emerging as a smoldering rift between them. It is ironic that both are working to the benefit of all the people but are unable to work jointly to solve this problem.

We noted that Simon too, is emerging as a distinct different personality. He was a choir boy yet is not a hunter like the rest of the choir boys. He is helping Ralph. He is described as one who helps the littluns, (That's what everyone calls the 6 yr. olds), find food, and listens to their needs. He often scouts the jungle by himself. His manner is being kind to others, generous to others and sympathetic to others needs. and he enjoys nature. He is like a boy scout. He is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

Chapter 4: Life now seems to have a pattern. Shelters are still being constructed. the majority of kids are still playing and swimming, Jack and his hunters are still trying to catch their first pig and they are still struggling with keeping the signal fire lit. Life was pretty much now as traditional life is in civilized countries. Work ,Play, Eat and Sleep. Being rescued was still a hope, but no longer a priority. The littluns were basically on their own during the day and slept in the community shelters at night. They still looked up to authority.

Two of the biguns, Roger and Maurice, picked on the littluns and threw stones and wrecked their sand castles. Like real life there is always a bully, or two, around somewhere. By this time Jack has taken up painting his face as a mask to camouflage himself and his choir boys are no longer any wearing clothes either. They follow Jack wishes more now than they did before. Ralph happens to spot a ship on the horizon and also notices that the signal fire has gone out. He runs to restart the fire only to arrive to late, the ship was gone. He is mad at the hunters since it was their job to maintain the fire. Jack and the hunters come back up the mountain carrying their first pig kill. Jack was ecstatic and the boys with him were all in the celebration mode. When Jack was confronted about the fire going out, Jack responded that he needed the boys, who tended the fire, to help us in the hunt. All he and his hunters cared about was killing a pig. Piggy called them immature for the way they were carrying on. That earned a punch from Jack. That bash broke one of the lenses of Piggy's glasses. Roger too teases Piggy by taunting him with gestures. We see the similarities developing between their predicament and governments today. The common masses (littluns) are ruled by various older ones who fill positions of power and importance, who have their own agendas to satisfy.

The divisions of power are getting wider now than before, and are more clear now. Ralph, Piggy and Simon hold that things ought to be done proper and in an orderly way, for the protection of the group. On the other hand, Jack and Roger both seek to dominate those they consider weaker and justify their actions by claiming to be stronger than the others and therefore, they should be served rather than serve. it is a shame that those who are guided by a higher moral standard, don't recognize bullying for what it is; a self-gratifying sense of power by abusing others whom they perceive are weaker than they are.

Chapter 5: Ralph was quite perplexed over the events that had happened. He knew he had to have a meeting, but he felt inadequate to hold it. He actually wished he had the wisdom of Piggy, but he knew at the same time Piggy was no leader. Nobody paid any attention to him. Ralph blew the conch and a meeting was formed. Ralph outlined his frustrations. "We have lots of assemblies. Everybody enjoys speaking and being together. We decide things. But don't get things done." He berated them for not doing what they were supposed to have done. For refusing to help build shelters, for neglecting the signal fire, for failing to replenish the drinking water supply, etc. Finally ,he mentioned playing down the existence of a monster. Jack supported him. He called the littluns cry-babies and sissies and stated "The thing is - fear can't hurt anymore than a dream." Simon comments that the beast "is only us."

USA President in an inaugural address (March 1933) said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." and Lord Chancellor of England, Sir Francis Bacon, in 1618 said "Nothing is terrible except fear itself."

Author Golding conveys that the invisible beast represents something in all of us, both terror and allure of hidden desires for violence, power, and savagery. (Religion would call this 'Original Sin" and the Freudian concept is the ID, the instinctual urges and desires of the unconscious mind.) In doing this Golding asserts that we are all capable of becoming the beast.

One of the littluns takes the conch and suggests that the Beast comes out of the sea. and a fearful debate ensues since this is the first mention of where the beast may live. Ralph tries to call for order only to be put down by Jack who challenges his authority. "Who are you anyway. Sitting there telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing." Ralph responds, "I'm chief, I was chosen." When Jack protests, Ralph points out "Because the rules are the only thing we've got". Jack gets mad and forms his own group of vigilantes who want to take charge regardless of the rules. He and his pack go off to hunt the beast.

Chapter 6: It was an event during the night that none of the boys had witnessed. There was an air battle high above the boys and one plane was shot down. A parachutist floated down. He was dead. He and the parachute lodged in the rocks in the mountain near the place where the signal fire was kept. The twins Sam and Eric. called "samneric" by everyone. had fallen asleep on watch and didn't see the parachute land. When they awoke they saw the parachute, moved by the wind, billow and the head of the dead pilot raise up and they thought it was the beast and they panicked and ran back to the sleeping area. Ralph, Jack and the Hunters went searching for the beast, but were not able to find it on this attempt. At one point they reach a place that is a narrow shear drop to the rocks and ocean below. Ralph as leader, travels alone towards where the suspected beast is located. Jack, realizing that Ralph might appear braver than he is, finally follows Ralph and they discover the beast is not there.

Chapter 7: They decide to approach the mountain from another direction and hunt while they are traveling to that spot. This time Ralph joins in on the hunt and experiences the thrill of hunting. He never could understand why the other boys could abandoned everything just to hunt and is now horrified to find that he now has the same feeling they do during the hunt. In addition, even though the prey got away, the boys reenacted the hunt using one of the hunters, Robert, acting as the pig. In the frenzy they almost hurt/kill the actor and Ralph is horrified. Jack suggests that the next time they do that they should use a littlun as the actor pig. Ralph wanted to do the search during the day but Jack wanted to continue at night. Since Ralph didn't want to loose any standing in the group he agreed to go with them. As a result when they came upon the parachutist they saw the image of the blowing parachute and the pilot looming in the dark and they fled. If they had seen it in the day time they would have seen it for what it really was.

Chapter 8: They reported seeing the beast to the whole group. While deciding what they should do now that they saw the beast, Ralph and Jack have a disagreement and Jack calls for a vote to for him to take over as leader and the vote goes against him. He leaves and invites anyone who wants to separate to join him. He leaves the group to form his own tribe and invites anyone who wants to be with him to join him. This signifies the end of their democracy and the birth of Jack's totalitarian rule. Ralph, Piggy, Simon, the twins and some of the littluns are left on their own. All the hunters and the biguns ( The hunters are the choir and the biguns are boys 10,11 and 12) go with Jack. Piggy at this point suggests that the site of the signal fire be moved, from the mountain top where the beast was sighted, to the camp, and a new signal fire is started. Jack and the hunters kill a sow and plan a feast. He leaves the head of the sow impaled on one of the spears as an offering to the beast. Simon, who had left Ralph and the other little boys, to try to confirm the sighting of the beast, sees the Pig's head and imagines that the head, now covered with flies, is speaking to him. The pigs head says "There isn't anyone to help you. Only me and I'm the beast. You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you, I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?" Simon realizes that beast is not something physical. It is our own evil instincts, embedded in us. We are the beasts.

Chapter 9: Simon continues his trek and finds the truth, the beast is really a dead parachutist and he goes back to let everyone know what he has found. In the mean time Jack, Piggy and the remaining boys join in Jack's feast. Jack has used the killing of the pig to manipulate the boys into follow him as their leader. He, naked except for his mask and a belt, has taken sole authority over all of his tribe. He has the boys do their hunting dance and sing their mantra "Kill the beast, Cut his throat, Spill his blood." and this scene becomes a frenzy. All the boys including Ralph and Piggy join in. Amid all this chaos and smoke from the fire, Simon stumbles into the party site The boys, in their state of frenzy, think he is the beast and attack and kill him. That shows us the power of evil within the human soul. This beast (Simon) is washed out to sea. About that time the other beast, the parachutist who was dislodged, by Simon, blew way out to sea in a wind storm. Now all that was left were the boys and the Lord of the Flies (the pigs head).

Chapter 10: Piggy and Ralph and the twins discuss the murder of Simon and dismiss it as an accident. Jack now rules with absolute power. He has one boy spanked with a stick for breaking one of Jack's (undisclosed) rules. Then he warns all the boys to keep away from Ralph and his crew. Jack leads a raid on Ralph's camp and steals Piggy's glasses, so he alone now had the only means to light a fire.

Chapter 11: Ralph, Piggy and the twins,( samneric), go to Jack's camp to retrieve Piggy's glasses. Jack and Ralph fight only to stop when Piggy blow the conch shell. Piggy suggests that "law and rescue are better than hunting and breaking things up." One of Jacks henchmen, Roger. levers a boulder off the cliff that hits and kills Piggy. His body too is washed out to sea. Jack seizes the twins, but Ralph manages to escape through the jungle. Total anarchy now prevails.

Chapter 12: That night Ralph hides in a thicket near Jack's camp. He talks to the twins who are on guard. They tell him that in the morning he is going to be hunted by Jack and his hunters. In the morning, Jack tortures one of the twins and locates Ralph's hiding place, but when he can't get to him, he sets a fire to smoke him out. The fire gets out of control and burns the rest of the vegetation on the island. Trying to escape the flames, Ralph removes the sows head from the spear and arms himself. He manages to flee Jack's hunters and falls down, exhausted, on a strip of sand at the end of the island. He looks up and standing there is an officer of the Royal Navy. The officer thinks the boys are playing some kind of game and only realizes they were playing for real when he finds out from Ralph that two boys have already been killed. The officer replies "I should have thought that a pack of British boys -- you're all British, aren't you? --would have been able to put up a better show than that." Ralph wept for the 'end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend, called Piggy. '

We found that Men try to govern themselves (They start with goodwill inside), but when blinded by egotism and lust for power tragedy and destruction are inevitable.,

We thought we would run through the list of themes Miss Miller suggested to see how the story may or may not fit.

Primitivism: We noticed that well brought up British boys descended into barbarians when there was no adult supervision. This seems to follow the second law of thermodynamics that says: Disorder increases over time unless it is interrupted. If this is true, then the thing most of us despise, seems to be necessary. Enforceable rules to interrupt our savage instincts.

Civilization: This seems to be contrary to primitivism, it suggests that being civilized means, NOT doing what comes naturally. In the story we saw various times where everyone was doing their own thing; Ralph, Piggy and Simon were concerned for providing shelter. means to signal potential rescuers, and caring for the littluns. Jack and his tribes priority was providing meat, and the littluns were only interested in playing and swimming. All of the above would have worked to the benefit of all, but were sabotaged by individual agendas and the absence of attempts to combine their efforts for the good of all..

Innocence: The loss of innocence hit all the boys. The idealism of youth and facing the realities of everyday life without the aid of adults was forced on all the boys. At the end of the novel Ralph wept. Not tears of joy as you would expect because they were being rescued, but because of "the end of innocence, the darkness of a man's heart." The dark heart is the desire to for power and control over others. It can be wielded quickly and wrongly by just a few people. It is what is happening all over the world at this minute. It demonstrates how petty bullying can be condoned within groups. (exacerbated by rituals, symbols, costumes, chanting, body marking, etc.) and how it can escalate to much worse.

Rules and Order: Think about this. If suddenly all the rules and laws of the area you live in were abolished, would you run out and try to establish a new order? or would you sit back and relax and take a holiday and do nothing? The author suggests that Law and Order is what keeps us from reverting to our inborn nature of being savages. Granted the present system of laws doesn't always treat everyone fairly, but they are the only thing keeping most of us alive. And where they are unfair, there are usually means to correct the injustice. Where people inflect their will on others, without regard to finding some sort of a common ground, we end up acting like savages.

Fear: There is a 'Beast' in everyones who lives. We all live with a certain amount of fear: Fear of getting sick, fear of failing, fear of loosing someones love. fear of others, fear of uncertainty, etc. The list is sort of endless. The good thing is, most of the fears are resolved and move on. Something or someone intercedes, and we lose our fear. The character, Simon, recognized that the real beast in our lives was us.

Power: In the story Ralph was elected 'chief'. He represented all the boys. He was given their permission to establish rules of order in a democratic way. Jack on the other hand represented an autocratic society ruled by someone who was power hungry. He ruled to exert his power over the others for his own good. If they didn't like what he was doing they were punished and/or were disposed of. Today in many democratic countries we find that the power hungry are in control. Today, It seem like, politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Identity: As the story progressed we read that Jack and the other hunters "painted" their faces to hide themselves from the pigs they hunted. Behind these masks, they felt they were hidden from their actions. They didn't feel they had to be responsible for their own actions, they were hidden and the mask was responsible, not them personally. {ie: Almost killing Robert in one scene, Killing Simon and Piggy in other scenes.)

Wisdom and Knowledge: Piggy and Simon were two characters who exhibited innate wisdom. Ralph too exhibited some wisdom although he began to question his knowledge towards the end. Unfortunately both Piggy and Simon were killed. No one paid any attention to them. (Piggy was proud of his differences, knowledge and intelligence, and he actually grew in confidence when Ralph started to lose his.) This essentially left the rest to live in the dark trying to live on their own instinct. which we now know was flawed to self destruction. ( ie: They set fire to the plant life on the island, to smoke out Ralph, thereby destroying the natural food supply they would need in the future to stay alive.)

This nature of going from good to worse is also observable in boys today. The Facts of Boy Life, points out:

"Boys are 'pack animals' by nature. They tend to run in packs of some sort, be it a gang, team, club, fraternity, or whatever."

"Boys have an almost insatiable need to face challenges, to prove their worth to other boys. Even the most 'self confident' boys are given to continue to prove themselves over and over. This explains why they respond so quickly and easily to virtually any type of challenge or dare. The old game 'Truth or Dare' is a perfect example. Get boys involved in that game and the 'Truth' part of the game goes out the window quickly and it becomes more like 'Dare or Dare'."

"Boys accept the fact that some sort of 'Initiation or Hazing' is part of the, group joining process. The relative importance of the group is in direct proportion to the level of challenge included in the initiation and is further enhanced by the level of secrecy."

"Boys can be very cruel and sadistic when 'initiating' or punishing other boys. They also justify acts that might otherwise be considered gay or perverse, as long as they are part of the initiation, penalty, forfeit, or punishment process. and almost always involve nudity at some point."

"Most teenage boys go through a period of time when they are very self-conscious about their bodies (typically during the period when puberty is running in high gear and producing the most radical changes). However once the major changes have solidified, the self-conscious feeling are typically replaced by extremely strong 'exhibitionist' ones. This is particularly true of jocks."

"Teenage boys are pretty much horny 24 hours a day! Their desire to masturbate or engage in just about any form of sexual activity can be overwhelming. No matter how 'straight' a teenage boy is, once he becomes 'horned to the max', it is relatively easy to get him to engage in sex with other boys, with even the lamest justification. A horny teenage boy lacks common sense, or at best has only fleeting moments of common sense."

'Many boys are fascinated by the concept of torture which is often incorporated into the games they play as either an integral part of the game itself, or simply as a penalty for losing. As they enter their teen years, these 'tortures' tend to become increasingly sexual."

Jake, Enos and I concluded that we should be very aware of our innate nature to deteriorate morally in the absence of sound moral guide lines and our need to work together to solve our common problems, and to strive to conduct our lives in a way that what we may do in the future will be fair to all, lest we become victims of the beast in all of us.

It is finished.

The End.


A/N; You can download copies of the novel LORD OF THE FLIES , They are available on the internet. Type in the title and search. At least two sites offer the full book for free. (Approx. 265 pages) The original uncensored film version is also available free on YouTube. Make sure you look for the 1963 version. (Versions after that date are written in 'Hollywood' style and don't follow the novel faithfully.) It runs about 1hr and 34 min. It's time to move on. Thanks to all who wrote. I truly appreciated your comments, suggestions and encouragement. Bye, Benny