Creative Writing: The Virus

Within his text, Campbell writes about the hero crossing the first threshold and entering a Special World. Taking this action signifies the beginning of the journey and the hero’s commitment to it. When related to Jack, the Special World he crosses over to is Christmas Town, where he begins his journey toward making people happy rather than scaring them. After being celebrated by the town for the best Halloween yet, Jack sneaks off by himself toward the outskirts of the town into a twisted hill above a pumpkin patch and graveyard, it is there he sits and ponders what he is feeling, and thus he begins singing "Jack’s Lament". Within the song he sings about how others view him as terrifying and displays a few the scare tactics he has, but the chorus of the song is what reveals the crux of his dilemma, "oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones, an emptiness began to grow, there’s something out there, far from my home, a longing that I’ve never known" . Jack is unhappy with the life he is leading and as a result has become massively depressed. Zero, his ghost dog, even tries to cheer him up to no avail. This leads to Jack wandering the forest until dawn when he stumbles upon a place he has never been to before.

“Yes I am dad.” Kevin screaming at the top of his lungs,” Mr.Cromwell needs to go!” While Howie and Kevin argued ,Cromwell was over there eating Kevin’s breakfast, waffles. It was too late, Howie and Kevin turned around ,the waffles were gone.Kevin and Howie went straight over to doggy daycare. Cromwell had stayed 1 hour knowing he wanted to leave.

Jack was living with family that was careless about him, but now he lives in a tree house alone but not for long. When he was in the cvc’s(it’s really in the beginning) getting a tiny screwdriver to repair walkie, he got attacked by a furious monster named Blarg! After running away from the Blarg to the treehouse, he began repairing walkie. The second walkie had his best friend Quint(who likes brussel sprouts,YUCK!). After he was talking to Quint, he went to Quint’s house

All the kids knew what happened to Jack. They were all somber until they saw land. Then everyone

“Some people say I was lucky to survive, other will say I deserved it for the choice I made. I’m here to say I was lucky, it’s never ok to say your life isn’t worth living even at your worst you can always look forward tomorrow will come and if you put your mind to it you’ll see that anything is possible.” – Stephen McGregor Professional Paralympian

Unfortunately, Jack’s dooming quality is his obsession, which came over his desire to follow through with his promise. This reveals itself one day when a ship passes within eyesight of the island but ultimately does not stop because the fire had been recklessly unkempt. “The fire was dead,” he said. They saw straight away; saw where they had really known down on the beach when the smoke of home had beckoned. The fire was out, smokeless and dead; the watchers were gone.

The sides of the enclosure gleamed softly beneath the opening, a faint silvery luminescence gracing the edges and faces of the gray-black rock unlike any of the rocks he’d seen in the hills around his home. “Home,” he thought. Where was home? Suddenly a bolt of lightning struck his back, convulsed his whole body,

Back in the main level of the factory, Wolf and Fox find Hawk lying on the ground, pale and unresponsive, his bulletproof vest next to him and the edges of a red stain showing around a wad of gauze. A soldier that Fox assumes is N-Unit's medic kneels next to him, along with Snake and Coyote. The three medics are talking frantically among themselves. The rest of N-Unit hovers nervously nearby; the rest of H-Unit is nowhere to be seen. Dust particles dance through the beams of sunlight from the holes where windows used to be, giving the whole scene a strangely dreamy air.

Jack and his choirboys let the signal fire out while they went hunting, as if they had adapted to island and accepted the fact that they were going to be on the island forever. When Ralph tells him that the signal fire went out, Jack is "vaguely irritated by this irrelevance, but too happy to let it worry him" (Golding 97), as if he valued the island more than then the rest of the world. Another valid point is that when Ralph, Jack, and Roger went to go look at the dead parachuter, they had become so freaked out, that they ran away in fear. They had become so accustomed to the island, that outsiders had become a thing of the past. Also, towards the end of the book, when the boys are chasing Ralph to kill him, they meet the British naval officer on the shore. The boys suddenly become quiet, and then "began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, 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" (Golding 290), explaining that by the moment they saw the officer, all of the barbaric notions that had built up inside of them had melted away. Therefore, this proves that lack of outside contact caused them to turn into crazy

Jack’s selfishness did not take long to affect their chances to be saved, and get home. All of the boys had their mind set on getting back home and staying on task, except for Jack. They made a fire in hope for ships passing by to save them; they had shifts to watch over the fire, and Jack and his hunters did not watch over the fire when it was their

He falls to the ground, unconscious, as the storm rages on. His friends ran away in terror, leaving Jack alone on the beach. When Jack wakes up, he finds himself in a hospital bed, surrounded by worried doctors and nurses. They tell him that he was struck by lightning and luckily survived, but he'll need a lot of time

“There was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out!” He took a step toward Jack, who turned and faced him.

“Wake up,” that’s what I heard after passing out from all the blows to the face. My vision is blurred I’m trying to stay awake but I lost consciousness; all of a sudden I felt a splash of coldness on my face, and I woke up gasping for air. The man with the deep ominous voice said, “Wakey wakey little man” I replied, “where the h*ll is Mako!” when I was fully aware of where I was, that’s when I started to panic.

Once upon a time a few centuries ago I was a little girl who was energetic and adventurous, but one day all of that changed. I was in the yard playing tag with my sister and two brothers but then we heard “the bell.” The bell meant the sickness, black plague, was in town. When the people began to hear the bell they ran all over the place causing a panic and knocking on doors making sure everyone knew what was happening.

"Wake up, partners," the trail boss, James called. I sleepily looked up , shivered, and saw I was the only one not up. "Here," James said, giving me the horses' bridles and saddles. "Take these and get the horses ready. We have a long day today." I groaned in reply and set up the horses for the day's long drag. I was the horse wrangler and this was my everyday job but I still couldn't get use to the idea of waking up before the sun and working. We drove the cattle into open plains against the winter's cold wrath.