Killer Angels

The book Killer Angels, it’s a good book for people who like wars or would like to know more about the Civil War. The Civil War was on the east coast of the United States on June 29th 1863 thru June 1914. This book sets the historical time line of the events that took place during the war. The Killer Angels author Michael Shaara won the Pulitzer Prize for his realistic historical novel.
If you would like to learn about the Civil War, you would want to read this book because of its realistic descriptions of the events that took place during the war. If you thought you knew everything about the civil war, you would learn a great deal more about the details and actual events and individuals who made these decisions during this war. This was and still is a major historical event in our history.
We learned a great deal on how and what was required to fight a war of this caliber. I feel this book is a required or must read for anyone who wants to know about the military. I do not recommend reading this book if you don’t know much about the military, because there are words that you won’t understand.
One of the main characters General Longstreet was the biggest General for the Confederate Army, and Chainberlin was general for the Union Army. You will learn about both sides of the civil war, because the author Michael Shaata writes about each side in separate chapters as the events occur. There are battles throughout the book, which is one of the reasons this book is so entertaining. The book starts out with a spy tiring to get though a picket line trying to tell his army,”that their were 10,000 army units moving.” Then further in the book it discusses the battle at Gettysburg.
I feel everyone should read this book, because it really gives a person a better perspective about our county beginning.. This is a good book to read if you would want to know about the civil war.

ch 13

Chapter 13 Going Home

The boys march onto the cruiser from the rowboat. They are feeling excited and happy to finally be off the island and having something to look forward to. A marine is in front of the boys and says,

“I’ll give you a tour of the ship.” The group follows the marine around the ship exploring each area including the engine room, the bridge, the bow, the stern, and their quarters. After hearing a loud bang, Wilfred jumps on the bed and instantly falls fast asleep. Jack, Roger and Robert raided the kitchen’s food and fill their stomachs with stale chicken. As the group is sleeping, eating and exploring a loud alarm goes off, saying General Quarters. Many marines are running through the vessel going top side. Jack, Ralph and Percival follow them up to the deck and spot a fighter plane coming straight down in their direction. Someone yells, “Komakaze!” The boys run to the side of the ship to take cover. When the plane hits the middle of the vessel, Ralph, Jack and Percival go flying over the edge and they find some debris to hang on while the boat is sinking in front of them.

After several hours of floating in the warm, shark infested water, they watch each lifeless bodies of the marines and sailors go under the waves as the sharks disappear. In the distance, a large gray object appears to be sailing towards them and the boys are happy that they will finally be out of the water alive. When the carrier starts to pick them up and they get on board they can’t believe that it is a Japanese carrier. They are reunited with most of the other boys that survived the wreckage. Now, they are put in a jail cell as their prisoners.

“What luck!” Maurice says. I can’t believe we were rescued and now we are taken captive again. Roger is playing his harmonica, Sam and Eric are playing rock, paper, scissors and Ralph is using his metal mug scraping it across the bars. After having mush for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the group is feeling sad and depressed. They wished they were back on the island free to roam and wander. Each boy was taken one at a time to be questioned about the American cruiser and why they were on it. Each

one boy tells the same story about how they were rescued. When one of the Japanese sailors comes in and yells something, the other sailor replies back in Japanese. Next, the Japanese sailors direct them to the top side where they are given a plane with no pilot. The boys all get in and they argue about who will fly the plane.

Wilfred says, “Jack should fly the plane because he is the biggest.” Ralph disagrees and says.”I should fly the plane because my dad is in the Navy and he taught me how to fly.” The boys choose Ralph to be the pilot and Jack to be the co-pilot. When they have taken off, they fly east toward America. They are cheering and thrilled that they are still alive. The plane continues for several hours into the night. They see lights below and they decide to fly lower towards the light. They discover it is a U.S carrier and they try to land.

Ralph says, “I only failed on the landing.” So Jack took over and had trouble landing and ran into the tower on the boat. The plane survived the landing barely and the group got off quickly and were all shaken up. Ralph was looking around and found out that his dad was in charge of this boat.

Ralph stayed with his dad all night talking about what happened on the island, when the morning came they couldn’t find Roger and they was a missing lifeboat and they discovered that Ralph’s father kicked him off the ship with a lifeboat. Jack gets a helicopter off the boat and goes to his mom. Maurice decides to be a sailor and ends up dead in the next battle. Robert decides to be a stowaway off an American ship until he gets back to London his home country. Sam and Eric decide to be movie stars in the movie, The Twins Strike Back. Ralph continues to live a good life with his mom and dad. Wilfred and Percival both die of homework disease. Piggy and Simon work for Davy Jones and life a good live pirating Roger.

blog # 10

chapter 11-12
piggy the partly ghost

they stole my glass wwwaaaaa

they stole my glass (crying) we have to get my glasses back because I'm blind and i won't know what to do I'll just be like a zombie and i meant get hurt because I can't see. Then Ralph said we will go to jack with spear's even piggy when samneric inturped and said no piggy can't have one it would be a diddle. Then I said I'll take the conch it might work and I'll just ask for them back it would be the right thing to do.
so so when we finally got to jack's tribe we got jack out I asked for my glasses because it was the right thing to do is give me the glasses and let us go when raplh yelled something and I fell to my knees and blacked out and when I woke up I saw my self blood face and I noticed i was over my body and i saw samnneric being grabbed and raplh running away after a big battle against jack looked like raplh wounded and running away. i saw samneric go to the fire when i see a figure climbing the edge and i said that has to be ralph because no one would try to keep away from jack's tribe or the feast witch is going on below them. Then samneric were talking to the figure and gave it something and it pointed to a trinket so I went over to that trinket thing and their was raplh sleeping so i was looking around to see if the sun was coming up. so i was watchfor about 6 hours.
Then some uluation was coming from jack's side of the island then their was some smoke and i say some one setting fire to the island and ralph woke up he looked scared then i notice samnericwith jack and his tribe right out side of the tricket and the n i noticed that ralph was sacred and saying stuff but i don't know what he was saying. then i saw some one trying to spear ralph and it loked like he got injured and i laughed alittle becuse i know raplh he won't go down without a fight. then i saw them go back and started pushing bouders. then after that i saw raplh start running for his life to the beach the n he went into a small place to hide i think. then they came by and looked in there and raplh knocked that kid over and he got to the beach and there were marines with big guns and raplh started cry and yelled i'm finally saved.

blog #9

where did every body go
Ralph

Stop it piggy says after I spit water at him in the pool. why i said because I'll have to get out and dry my spec. Then he asked where everyone went and he pointed to the platform they must be at the feast with jack should we get them. No i said theirs no point just let them go. then piggy said don't you think we should go. I said I guess. so we went to jacks feast and we have as much meat as I can.when jack asked does anyone want any more.then jack has some water when he asks so who wants to join my tribe. i stood up so angry i was about to charge jack but i couldn't or i was going to die so i just asked why do this. jack says because you had some of my meat. then they started to chant kill the beast cut its throat make him bleed. then something came out of the creeps and went in the horseshoe and was saying that their was a dead man on the hill and they were still chanting kill the beast cut his throat make him bleed bash him in and the beast said one more time dead man on hill and was being speared kicked punched and bitten to death.

chapter 10
where did Simon go

raplh

i think that was Simon how it acted saying something. no it wasn't piggy said. but they killed him and i was in to it i was part of the dance. then piggy said we were scared and it was dark. ok i said we need to relight the fire again. ok so i tell everyone that can watch the fire to make sure theirs smoke and it is still light. so we got allotof fire wood and i was arguing with Sam and ericbout the fire and we decided to not watch it tonight so me samneric and piggy go into the shelters when i wake up to piggy come out side piggy. when piggy wakes up and says is that the beast becuse i don't want him to get me when i said don't move.then it keeped asking for piggy somthing triped over me and i started beating him tell he was bleeding when i got hit and stoip they run away me samneric pulled piggy out of the clopsed shelter to a tree and asked if everyone was all right and eric said i was being kicked in the face when i kneed him in his pills and i thought they won't want to mess with us any time soon when piggy noticed his specs where gone.

Blog # 7

I'm Gone

Jack

Seeing the Beast changed all of us. I think Ralph is just scared, he seems to think my hunting skills are no match to kill the beast. I blew the conch until everyone arrived at the platform. This meeting was the end of Ralph being my leader. I can't believe that he called me a coward, I have prefect hunting skills! As I left the platform I invite anyone who want to join me to follow me into the forest! I had tears running down my facing fearing that I would be alone. But I heard foot steps following me into the forest it was Bill, Maurice and Roger.

We were all marvel with demure with how we could crept though the forest without making a sound. We came across pigs laying in the shadow of a tree. I motioned which pig we would target. With two spears hitting our target. The pig still ran off, but we followed the trail of blood. Roger and I found the pig, I Paunched on top cutting the pigs head off and Roger stuck his spear up the rear of the pig. I decide that we would leave the pigs head on a stick as a peace offering to the beast. I was thinking if we shared our kill with the beast he would not hunt us.

I finger painted Maurice face with blood, all of us ran back to camp in a demoniac state. As we ran into camp we took over the fire and shared the feast with Ralph and the others, but things will never be the same again.

Blog # 6

Chapter 6

Simon

The Beastie

In the middle of the night I hear Sam and Eric talking to Ralp about a Beastie and going on and on and on.... between extremen silence. It seemed interminable that their converstation was so long. The twins are so scared that they can't even walk to the other huts. They had a meeting to discuss about the beast and what to do about it. Jack was mustionous about the beast and saying it can't be on the island because he had searched everywhere on the island. Then he says "There is one place I have not been. It's by the mountainside."

We all picked up a spear and Piaay watched the littlums while they searched for the beast, we were walking to the place that Jack had never been too.
I was walking side by side with Ralph and I was embroiled by being next to him with his hair flickering into my face. We made it to where Jack had not been and there was a lot of gano on the rocks, but no beastie. Jack kept saying this would be a great fort and we should stay here. Then Ralp was wary over the fact that the fire was out and they wanted to stay at the fort.

Chapter 7

Simon

Beast Hunt

It was was so hot, our torn colthes stick to our bodies. All of us just seem too stop and rest on the rocks to get out of the sun. I found Ralph impervious trans, I knew what Ralph was day dreaming about, because it was what all us daydreamed about. What our lives were like before this. Remembering our dun lives before, and how we now realized what we took for granted.

It was at this moment I really saw how brine each us have become. Our hair too long and uncombed, how each of needed a shower. Our clothes so dirty that they were stiff.

Once again, we set off on the beast hunt, but Jack see a chance to hunt a boar. All of us including Ralph went into a windy rage hunting this boar. Ralph was bravado with striking the boar in the face with his spear. But in the end the boar got away. Jack shouts make a ring! This seem to always have a one of us as the pig in the middle of the circle, with all us poking and pushing and screaming, "kill the pig."

blog#5

Why is everyone scared

Piggy



When we got to the platform and we started the meeting with decorm. The littluns were falling off of the twister and Jack was craving into wood. I stood way of the platform so people knew I wasn't going to speak antmore to. Then Ralph started up again how everyone needs to help with the shelters and keep a watch on the fire. Then Ralph mentions that we should do your business in the rocks so the tide can take it away, because right now your going near the drinking water and fruit and its ludicrous if you you believe it isn't a problem. After that I sat on a long and put my hands out for the conch but it was only Ralph who was going to speak at this meeting. Then ralph but the conch on the log got up and was leaveing then jack picked it up and started to call the littluns cry babies and made them lamentation. talk about beastie their is no beastie. Then littluns start comeing up one by one and say they,ve seen the beast the n the last one says it comes out of the water.

blog#3-4

Jornal Entry



Ralph
Chapter 3


People need to help me.



When Jack comes back from hunting, I ask him if he got anything and he said," No because the spear keeps falling out. Then help me and Simon make huts Jack said," no, I want meat. But me and Simon only have 2 and a half huts. We need shelter. I saw the Opaque color in Jack's eyes, I realized, I better change my complusion in the way I' am dealing with him. I am deeply frustrated with Jack rapt appetite for hunting. Its clear to me the reason I need him to assistance me and Simon in building shelter. Its because the other boys look up to him as a leader. Jack seems to set the tone.

Chapter 4

Ralph

Fainted hope.

I saw a ship! I saw a ship, hoping the ship would see our smoke signal. With a deep beligerence, I just couldn't look in the direction of our smoke signal, becasue I wanted to hang on the hope of going home. I started runing toward the mountain where our smoke signal was, only to feel an incredable swarthiness, within me, seeing that the fire was out. Then in the distance seeing Jack and the other boys returning with a pig! At the moment I stared at Jack with such malevolently, and I am sure all the boys and Simon knew that all of us would now be divided.

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Journal Entry

Chapter 2- Shut Up

Jack

We had a group meeting and we run up the mountain to start a fire. I just yelled let’s go make a fire and everybody followed me. When we got to the mountain we got as much wood as we could and put it in the pile then we pinch piggy’s glasses to make a fire. We started it and there was no smoke then a fire started and it took hold in the forest. We capering around the fire as we saw the flames rose high into the air. I interrupted the group and induced the littluns to the fire. The littluns were too officious to help me as I was getting logs. Piggy and Ralph martyred when they noticed the kid with the birth mark was gone from the mountain.

blog #1

Journal Entry

Chapter 1-Is it an Island?

Simon

The group hears some noises that sound like trumpets. We have a meeting after finding what the trumpet-like sounds were. We climb up the mountain to see if the land is an island. On the way up we saw a boulder and we were sniggering with happiness because we went to knock it over the side. So we heaved and hoed until it went to the scar. Once we were done with our break we hiked up through the mountain. Once we got to the top it was like efflorescence. We were thinking of a way down then I proffered the way to go to the scar and then to the platform. On the way down the mountain it was like a glamour of the colors off the bushes and candle buds. About five minutes later they hear squeals and there is a pig caught in the creepers and Jack pulled out his knife and he paused and the animal got away. He said, I was trying to find a place to stab it. On the way to the platform we were immured by the forest. At last when we arrived we had a meeting.