The book starts when a British plane crashes onto an island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. The only survivors are male children below the age of 13. Two boys, the fair-haired Ralph and an overweight boy nicknamed "Piggy," find a conch.  Ralph uses it as a horn to bring all the survivors to one area. Ralph emerges as one of the survivors' leaders during the meeting. Jack organizes his choir group into a hunting party responsible for discovering a food source. Ralph, Jack and a boy named Simon soon become the leaders. Simon, unable to bear the stress of his position, goes off to think. Alone, he finds a severed pig head. Simon envisions the pig head, now swarming with scavenging flies, and believes that it is talking to him. Simon hears the pig identifying itself as the real "Beast" and disclosing the truth about itself—that the boys themselves "created" the beast, and that the real beast was inside them all. Simon is delusional.  But Simon accidentally stumbles into a ritual dance and, mistaken for the beast, is killed by the tribe led by Jack.

Jack then orders his tribe to begin a manhunt for Ralph. Fleeing through the forest, Ralph watches as they set fire to the forest.  The fire draws the attention of a passing naval vessel. A landing party from the vessel encounters Ralph.  And this is the end.

My summer so far has not been interesting.  I have started to play with my old friends, Legos.  My brother gave me his large collection of Legos, so I now have about 30 Lego creations.  I also have been reading a book called Revenge of the Dwarves.  It's a series about Dwarves who try to protect their homeland from the evil Outerland creatures of Tion.  After a long break from, I have been slung back to a game that I had forgotten how fun it was...Minecraft.  I have also been running at Lunken Field Trail.  It's  great exercise, because it is five miles around and I try to run the whole way.  I love being able to see planes land and take off above while I'm running.  Sometimes it feels like they may hit me or perhaps just the landing gear.  Now that I think about my summer so far, it actually hasn't been that boring.

Stars’ Lives

A star starts out as a cloud of gas called a nebula. Then the nebula collapses under its own weight turning into a protostar or, what some people call, a baby star. The protostar then turns into a main sequence star. Our sun is a main sequence star. A star is a main sequence star for most of its life. Then after it runs out of fuel it will shed its outer layer and grow to a red giant.  After it runs out of its reserve carbon fuel it will explode, and turn into one of the four things: it can turn into a black hole, a white dwarf star, another nebula or a neutron star.