User:Austrolombia/The Journey

Shortly after the events of animal farm 1 by George Orwell, it was found that Mr and Mrs Jones had moved to Asia, Vietnam. There they lived in poverty with their kids Ralph, Jack, Sam and Eric. One day Mr Jones was found to have lost his job at the local bakery store, so Mr Jones’ friend, Mr Slave, suggested selling his kids so that the financial situation he was in would not be as bad. At first Mr Jones refused but as Mr and Mrs Jones’ financial situation worsened, Mr Jones finally agreed to sell his children to Mr Slave. Mr Slave took Ralph, Jack, Sam and Eric to the Vietnam international airport where they were put on a private plane by Mr Slave.



There they met kids of a similar age on the plane who explained that their parents had faced similar financial problems and were also forced into selling their kids. Once on board the plane the children soon overheard Mr Slave talking about the international slave trade and that the children were to be sold in Kuwait. The children, frightened by the situation, quickly got up to leave the plane but realised that they had already begun to move. Before long, Mr Slave came out of the pilot’s cabin and said to the children, “Did you know that 72% of people in modern slavery are in Asia and you just fell into my trap. Now you’re going to be sold to the highest bidder in Kuwait, hahahaha!”.



The children, afraid of their situation, struggled to think of a way out when suddenly a loud bang was heard from the right side of the plane. The children then looked out of the window of the plane to see that the right wing was on fire. As they began to panic, the children felt a hard crash and they went flying from their seats. The plane then crashed into the ground with a bing, bong, barramacka, boom. The children, bruised, wounded and bleeding were not sure what had not happened but felt they were lucky to be alive. The children then quickly left the plane and looked upon the vast island surrounding them. Ishmael, one of the many children on the plane asked “Should we try get of this island?”,

Jack instinctively said “yes, but for now we should venture into the island to see whether or not there is anyone living here.”

Another boy named Gavin said “Well why should we even think of getting off this island? Our parents were so easy to sell us, no one out there cares for us, not even our parents.”

Ralph responded by saying “Well that’s not true, our parents were in financial trouble and they only saw one way out of it. Although it was a bad decision for them to sell us, that was all they could do. You’re sort of right in saying they didn’t care for us, that is not the full case, they care for us but with the decision to sell us you can see how they would have to have a bit of a feeling of carelessness over us but doesn’t mean that they didn’t love us.”

Jack said “Alright, enough talk, lets venture into this island.” All the kids were ready to explore the island with Jack assuming the leadership role, but before they were ready to leave for the adventure, Sam and Eric said at the same time “We will stay here to check if anyone else survived the plane wreckage.”









Time had passed and Jack and the kids had returned, Jack announced that no other people had been found and it was also discovered that some kids had died on the plane while some were found to be alive but seriously injured. Gavin announced that for the time being the group would have to focus on survival. The younger kids, referred to as, “Littleuns”, could not do much work and spent their days wondering if they would ever see civilisation again, or even get off the islands. The “biguns”, the older and stronger kids, reassured them persistently that everything was okay. Gavin developed the belief that if there was an issue within the community of survivors that he would work harder.



Gavin was known to attempt to persuade the kids that they should focus on the survival on the island rather than attempting to escape. The littleuns emotional stress was an issue and all the biguns confronted and attempted to assure the children that something was being done to escape the island, but nothing in fact was being done. The littleuns belief of escape and freedom began to diminish as the days went on. Work and survival become the main concern for the biguns. Jack, Ralph, Sam and Eric, were confident that something would eventually be done to get off the island but really nothing was planned. Gavin had told them on the first day on the beach after venturing the island, that now they were free and should not worry about reaching civilisation as then they would not be free from the social and economic oppression and would most likely face the same treatment which they had faced back at home.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Jack, Ralph, Sam and Eric now believed that they were better off now than it was back in the day and did not want Mr Jones back. But Ralph feeling something wrong thought to himself, “Are we really free?”, Jack pushing and verbally abusing one of the children for accidentally knocking over one of the huts which Jack and Ralph had spent so long setting up. It had been noticed that over the past few days the treatment of the children had worsened. Ralph confronted Jack about his thoughts and Jack responded saying “Of Course we are free, what do you want Jones back? Then we would be slaves to that man, and what freedom would we have then. Nothing we would be back where we started with nothing, at least here we have a shot at a new life.” Jack responded “Well here what shot do we have? All we do is hunt, try to survive and repeat. You talk about having a second chance, well a second chance at life would be having many choices here we don’t have many choices, just survival. And think about it, do you really think everyone out there is like Jones. I say thousands times no comrade. If we get of this island we can find some other place, start our own civilisation, then their would be yours and our second chance at life, free from the oppression we have faced, and free from the laborious work we suffer under Gavin.” Jack responds “Do you dare think our leader Gavin, is forcing us into work, that is the thought of a deviation, it is not the norm way to think like this Ralph, you should pray to the God of the heavens, that he forgives you, because with what little compassion I share for you, I refuse to forgive you.” Ralph reply “Look we can get of this island, we can truly be free, but Gavin is the problem to all our issues, simply remove Gavin from the picture and we can be free. You say he is our leader, but he arrived here the same way as we came, sold into slavery. He is equal to us, you have placed him higher than yourself, do you not have respect for yourself? Look Jack we are not free, face it, if we were free Gavin wouldn’t be forcing our to gather food and sources to keep us “surviving” I do not ask for you forgiveness, for I am not thinking like a deviation, but I do ask that you realise that we have a chance to leave this island, we have a chance to start our lives again and we can give everyone here and including ourselves better lives than we have ever faced. But first we need to build a boat.” Ralph responded, finally realising that they were never free, but constrained to the belief of being free to simply work for the cause of survival which Gavin held in such high regard. “Fine, we’ll build this boat of yours, but only if Sam and Eric agree.” Sam and Eric struggled to process their thoughts into words, and were regarded as the less educated Bigguns upon the island, but were easily persuaded into building a boat.

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<p class="MsoNormal">It was about into the second week on the island which Ralph and Jack, decided to tell the littleuns about the building of the boat, they decided to take the opportunity to tell the littleuns based on the facts that Gavin ate alone on Taco Tuesday in his fairly larger hut compared to the rest. The littleuns belief of freedom and escape had been electrified, more determined than ever to get of the island. Jack only decided to tell Hunter and Ishmael about the building of the boat and had agreed to help in the process of building. It had been agreed that the building of the boat would commence and be continued on night shifts, group of bigguns and littleuns taking turns over the week. Work was strictly voluntary but whoever dismissed themselves from the building of the boat, would have they playtime reduced by half. Over the week it had been noticed that the tension between Gavin and Jack was becoming increasingly heated. The treatment of children had increased, with their spirits higher than ever, in the belief that they would be free soon from this hardship faced under Gavin’s control.

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<p class="MsoNormal">On Saturday Gavin finally discovered the building of the boat and called for a meeting, Gavin wearing his medals; Survivor One, First class and Survivor two, Second Class. And coming out with his large bigguns who offered protection when littleuns got into heated debates of the amount of work they had, and the little strength they had and the work they were made to do was not suited to their strength often resulting in working injuries and the employees not receiving any compensation. Gavin started the meeting as always, with everyone singing a song of praise in the name of Gavin. Gavin quickly turned angry and aggressive and asked if anyone would ever turn against him, no one spoke, it could be silence was almost deadly hear. Gavin than asked if anyone though of escaping of leaving the island, again nothing was said, Gavin than asked if anyone heard anything about a boat, nothing once again was said. Finally after much silence and consistent eye contest going on between Gavin and the littleuns. Jack finally broke out and said “Gavin, why do you keep us here, make us work till we can no longer move, you say we should not consider escaping this island, but you keep us in slavery, working more than we should, we listened to you at start, but now you have taken things to far, once this man called snowy told me “that all humans are equal” but not under you that perception has been turned in “All humans are equal but some human in our case, Gavin over here is more equal than others!! We have then come to an executive decision that we will no longer suffer this oppression we have faced over these past week and a couple of days and have decided to leave and create our own society called “Zealand” and your not invited so farewell Gavin, lets go guys.” As everyone prepared to walk of, Gavin yelled “I will not have you leave so easily, I Have worked so hard to create a society where I am on top, and I allow you to survive, so I tell those that remain loyal to me, to catch these mistaken boys and we will physically discipline them so they never question mine, I mean our authority.” Before long the remaining loyal servants chased after the boys who were now running to the boa

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<p class="MsoNormal">t. All through the forest the boys were filled with feeling of fear of being caught, but felt now that they were running a cause, they were running from being slaves and were running to their freedom. The boys soon reached the boat which they had spent so long building, and awed in how their efforts had paid of, all their hours of persistently working on the boats now paid off. They quickly remembered that they were running away and activated the boat, by pulling a switch. Before they knew it they were off and all the boys could help but sing “what about me” by Shannon Noll, they were finally free and were about to create a society called Zealand where all people would be free from social, economic and so much other problems which they had faced in their past. They were finally free from Jones, free from slavery, free from Gavin and free to make their own choice. They were now able to give the littleuns a new chance at life, that they had never had before. Alex Hunter had said to the remaining boys on the island before we left “You don’t know me, but you will soon.”

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<p class="MsoNormal">Alex Hunter after these events went on to become a successfully business owner of Destiny Rescue.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Jack Merridew, went on to write a novel called “The lord of the flies.”

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<p class="MsoNormal">Ralph went to become, head master of West East Side Christian college, a school dedicated to teaching children about the dangers about slavery.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Sam And Eric went on to become Leading reports for SBS World News.