Narrative Essay On Lord Of The Flies

Fear sometimes controls our actions. One time, I was at Fugitive Beach with my family and we were having a great time. We were swimming around go from rock to rock or we would go down the giant slide that went right into the water. A while after lunch my sister dared me to jump off the cliff, and I’m not a big fan of heights or jumping off tall things. I accepted the dare and we both went up the small bluff. I prepared to jump off and my sister said “You won’t jump” I looked right into her eyes and jumped off of the tall bluff, I felt like a was going to die on the way down into the water. When I got out of the water I got all the water out of my nose and I proved my sister wrong. I continued to jump off the cliff some more after the first time I jumped more then once because I …show more content…
I was very afraid to jump the first time but I am proud that I overcame that fear. Then my dad dared me to do a front flip off of the larger bluff for a liter of soda and I accepted that challenge. I got up to the top of the bluff and got really scared I thought I was going to die when I jumped off of the cliff. I completed the dare and earned myself a liter of soda. A character in Lord of the Flies I am similar to is Jack because he was scared to do something but later on overcame his fear. At the beginning of the story Jack was afraid to kill the piglet that was caught in the creepers of the forest when Jack was preparing to stab the piglet it went loose and ran off into the forest Jack was afraid and he said “I was choosing a place” (Golding 31). He didn’t stab the piglet fear took place and enabled him from killing the piglet.