Lord of the FliesLord of the Fliesan eg. for an intervention:It was about 2am when the air raid siren sounded. Ralph sat nervously under the table in the air raid shelter with his fair hair plastered to his face, sweat dripping down his pale cheek. The warmth of his mother’s arms gave him comfort and the feeling of safety he so much longed for but still, he could not help the feeling of fear as he sat their awaiting the unexpected. Outside the sounds of bombs and gunfire would drill into their heads like a bad headache that wouldn’t go away. With every �bang’ Ralph and his mother would shudder. Although they were not being hit directly, the bombs were being dropped in fields close by and Ralph and his family were apprehensive they were going to be hit.
It was about 4am when there was a �lull’ in the bombing, Ralph and his uncle decided to look outside. As they stood at the front doorstep, they looked up and the whole sky was lit with a bright crimson glow and it seemed as though the city was on fire. After a couple of minutes the sound of enemy bombers could be heard coming from a distance. They quickly ran inside the house and crawled under the table. After a few minutes, a parachute mine landed at the end of Westcott lane. Every house on the street was torn inside out or badly damaged.
Ralph sedated by the blast awoke later that morning to find his mother running around what remained of the house.“what are you doing mother?” he asked“You need to get out Ralph; you need to go somewhere safer”.“What! Where will I go?”Ralph’s mother turned around kneeled over and stared him in the eyes. Ralph could see the fearful and worried look in her eyes, she was trembling and had sweat dripping down her pointed chin, and he could see she was afraid.
“I don’t know”, she started “but you cannot stay here, you’re not safe”.She turned around and kept packing his bags and said,“Your school is having an evacuation for all students wanting to get out of the country”. She turned around to look at him again, “I want you to go with them”.
Ralph was bewildered. He did not want to leave his family, but he knew he had to except his mother’s decision.Later on in the day when Ralph and his mother had finished packing his bag, it was time to leave.“Ok quickly now Ralph, you must leave before the school departs”.There was a long silence between the two. Both standing opposite one another, Ralph ran and hugged his mother, tears running down his cheeks. He could taste the salt from the tears in his mouth with every quiver of his lips. She pulled him back her hands on his shoulders and said “Ralph, I need you to be strong for me, for you, for all of us. You need to be strong, make sure you are careful and remember I love you and Ill be seeing you soon”.
Ralph left his house not knowing of what the future had in store for him. He walked twenty minutes to school and when he got there he saw the large amount of boys. As there was only a limited number of boys allowed to travel overseas each of those boys were competing against each other to be able to make it out of the country. After registering he found himself in the middle of a huge room as just another number. The room was like a zoo, thousands of boys running around, making noise everywhere, the smaller ones crouched in the corner by themselves or with siblings and crying, the older boys bullying on the small unprotected boys. Then a whistle blew and a man appeared at the front of the room. He started to speak and although his voice was indistinctive Ralph could still make out some of the words. They were told that not all of them would be able to escape out of the country but, they were going to try as hard as they could to get as many on the plane as possible.
The boys are so scared that if they didn’t do it the men had to be held in the facility. When they started boarding the boys started crying and shouting. Ralph’s only fear was that in addition to the boys they would get beaten on the outside and would be in danger. There was one boy who, along with others who were present, would get stuck and would try and run away. Now Ralph was scared because the other boys were standing where the men were and he had to help as much as he was able so they would try to escape. All of their families came over and we were able to tell the story of a young boy on his way to school. The boys were very scared of the men at all, there was one boy who could tell his face how proud he was to have been a boy. The next thing he knew they were in the middle of the room and there was a little boy on his way down. But it was a very small boy. He had a lot more fighting going on. Ralph was able to go through that and when he went back to school there that boy was sitting against the wall at the bottom of the room and he was screaming. We also met a little boy on his way back. He was doing good academically, I got him back home and we ran into him and his father. When he saw me telling them I didn’t believe he really was that tall Ralph was like “Wow, you sure can reach out and push your way home. You sure you can reach out and push yourself up there to get some money.” So they knew Ralph was at least tall but there was a girl who was tall enough to go up and take a job with the company. The little girl had also brought them some money up to pay the bills. He was very bright though. They had the money they needed to help the company so that they could start making a little more money together. Ralph and I had a really good time at home and got a huge thank you from the company’s management. They were absolutely huge supporters for the company and it gave us an incredible feeling of joy. But if you have ever done anything to this company (I don’t mean this in a big way) you realize what a special bond it is, I had taken this company on from day one and I don’t think any of us were really given that feeling that it was from this individual who actually took this company on. A lot of people from the company come over here to see these kids. They think I feel privileged to do this without any repercussions and I believe that I have made it because of it. But the kids from the company are the best and everyone from my team who is on board is great and the people on the board are great too. Thank you, Ralph.
More than a thousand boys were being held there and the facility’s parents and teachers were shocked to find out what was going on. Their children who were doing so well were being held there as well but there were so many other things going on down at the facility that only the family had access to. The facility had no staff, other than employees who were assigned to watch over the boys when they left their home. There were staff workers for the facility but only a couple of them were actual students. This means that the average age of people at the facility was only three until they graduated, but all of this was going on in a way that was incredibly difficult. They didn’t know what was happening but they were so afraid that there were no school resources or money to pay for them. It was such a bad world. One of the boys was standing up in the middle of the room and said to me, “Why don’t you go buy us some snacks at lunch time and give us a ride