In the lord of flies, when Samneric show up, all four boys pretend they left the feast early. The thing is that a<span>ll four appear nervous as they discuss where they were the previous night, trying to avoid the subject of Simon's murder. All insist that they left early, right after the feast.</span>
Oh my goodness I tried *so hard* to answer this earlier but it kept saying I had "offensive words" in the answer ugh
So this is way too dramatic, but it's the best I could come up with:
people dying, children crying, virus thriving
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