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English Audio Request

Mummyteacher
205 Words / 1 Recordings / 2 Comments
Note to recorder:

British accent, please, male or female whatever.
Not too fast, if possible!
Thanks a lot!

Lord of the flies is about savagery.
A group of schoolboys ends up on a desert island, without adults, after their plane crashes.
At the beginning of the book, Ralph and Piggy meet on a desert island in the Pacific. They were on a plane with a group of boys who were being evacuated from England because of a war. But the plane was attacked and crashed on the island. They find a conch shell and Ralph blows into it like a trumpet.
The sound calls all the other boys who are on the plane out of the jungle.
No adult has survived the crash, just boys between the ages of 6 and 12. Ralph is the oldest and biggest boy on the island and he's 12.
Eventually a whole choir comes out of the jungle, led by a boy named Jack. The boys decide to vote for a chief and they all pick Ralph. He is beautiful and seems like a natural leader, especially since he called them with the conch. Jack is not happy about being voted down though, in fact he's humiliated.
They try to govern themselves and to maintain order and civility, but they ultimately fail, descending into violence and brutality.

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Comments

KazH
March 24, 2016

Changed '.. boys who are on the plane out of the jungle' to '... boys who were on the plane out of the jungle'.

Mummyteacher
March 24, 2016

Thanks a lot! It's wonderful!