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Let´s welcome Jack, one of the survivors of an extreme experience on an island. Jack was flying with a group of children on a transportation plane that was shot down to the ocean. Today he will tell us about his experience, and how it feels like to be completely out of touch with civilization. Jack :

¿ How did you organize when you “arrived” at the island?

That’s a good question. When the plane was shot down on the ocean, all of us were scattered by the wreck, but fortunately, the choir boys always stayed near me. When we were wandering around the island, a blast was heared in the entire place. My first thought was that it came from some sort of ship, but when I got closer to the place where the sound was originated, I noticed that one of the boys was trying to summon us. Once there, we laughed at a fat boy called Piggy, and we choose a leader. Regrettably, a donkey called Ralph was elected instead of me, but I was called leader of the group of hunters, that was composed by all the choir boys.

¿What problems did you have on the island?

The principal problems we encountered on the island were getting food, maintaining a fire that was used for attracting the ships that were sailing around, the littluns, and Ralph.

Getting food was very hard at the beginning because we had to get it hunting. By the end of our days on the island, the choir boys and I were practically experts. The fire problem was very associated with Ralph and the fire. Whenever we were hunting, the fire was dying, and that originated a lot of problems with Ralph, besides other ones originated because of some differences we had. The littluns, on the other hand, where always playing and never helped us on our duties. Moreover, one of them invented that there was a beast on the island.

¿ How did you try to solve those problems ?

The littluns problem was never solved, they were always playing, and they never stopped believing in the beast. As I said before, at the end of our days the food problem was solved.  The problem with Ralph and the fire was solved at the same time: when I decided to separate myself from the group, and form another one without Ralph, we stopped maintaining the fire, because it was Ralph order to keep it going.

¿ Can you name some important events that happened on the island?

Our very first important problem was the beast. A littlun with a mulberry colored birthmark mentioned something about a snake-beast, and all of the littluns, and some of us, were scared. One day Samneric saw the beast and the top of a mountain, and when we climbed up to saw it with our own eyes, we confirmed it was true. That scared me a lot.

Also, by the end of our days on the Island, we started a big fire to catch Ralph, who was trying to fight me. It was important because the fire was very big, and because it helped us to escape from the island.

The first time we killed a pig was an important event too. We finally got something big to eat, but we neglected the fire and a ship passed near the island and didn’t saved us.

¿ Were there many arguments or fights among the boys on the island ?

No. The majority of the problems were between me and Ralph. We all were angry with the littluns because they didn’t work, but there was nothing we could do about it.  

¿ What did you miss most while living on the island?

The warm food prepared by my mom. A comfortable and warm bed to sleep in, and my family. I am tired of eating meet, and of sleeping in the ground. I never stopped missing  my family.

¿ What did you learn from this experience ?

That all of us have a dark side we don’t show, and probably don’t know that exist. People, in extreme situations, can do very ugly things. Things that I am trying to forget right now.

Thank you Jack! I’m sure you want to rest right now. Thank you for coming and sharing with us your experience.