1. Lord of the Flies Project
Parent Correspondence
Taking evidence from text and extrapolating a character’s way of life had life been normal.

2. Parent Correspondence LOTF
Format, Directions and Authenticity: These are letters. You must write six (6) letters. Three letters should originate from a close family member such as a mother, father, sibling, or grandparent (someone who would know the character extremely well). The recipient should be a family friend or relative, perhaps even a person working in a government agency. The recipient responds and the first writer responds to that letter. This is repeated until a total of six letters are written. Your goal is to show what the character was like in normal life, by using clues to make inferences.

3. Format, Directions, & Authenticity
If hand written, letters must be on stationary. If typed, use a script font. Turn this project in using envelopes with addresses on the front.
You must take clues and evidence from the book and expand it by applying your powers of inference. List the quotes and their page numbers.
Use research of the British culture to help you with words, sites, dress styles, etc that will help with authenticity. Don’t forget to include the list of quotes you selected from the book on a separate sheet.

4. Letter Example Dear Barbara,
I hope this letter finds you in good spirits and in fair health. I can tell you that this war is a horrible course of events, especially on the nerves and especially as the enemy advances and our determined fighters resist the Asian tormentors. Again, I ask, what is America waiting for, such as things are? Especially when events are so similar to those of Our great grandmother had passed down those stories, remember?
Odd, isn’t it, writing letters the old way, being that the internet has been destroyed. How is that so? Such an extensive tool for communication now gone. I would know by now, for example, if the boys had arrived safely to Melbourne. I miss them doubly as you might imagine. What fun and good naturedness they filled the house with, the constant giggling and prank playing as only brothers that close can manage. It seemed that not only were they

5. inseparable, but that they are one in the same
inseparable, but that they are one in the same. Not just appearance, I would say, but in thought, word and deed. Well, Barbara, I’m sure you know all this because they are quite fond of you, and you of them. Their weekends in Yorkshire with you and Uncle Brendon is everlasting in their dual memories. But it appears now, that I am beside myself in missing them. Already it has been a month with no word. Is it possible, Barbara, that something might have happened to their plane? I can’t bear the thought of our dancing boys lost, gone, or worse. Don’t you remember them two telling jokes at Christmas, dancing the latest, is what they’d tell me. “It’s the latest, Mum.” And they’d start to dance and sing to the “Cleavers” or the “Banshees,” acting funny and having us in stitches. Grandma almost peed one time watching them dancing, Eric being the girl and Sam acting the Lad. She laughed and screamed.
It’s enough, I guess dear cousin, that my sadness should not spill forth any farther. But I could not contain it.
I should leave you now, wishing the best for you and your hubby. Perhaps I’ll see you at Aunt Mildred’s this Christmas, with the boys in tow. I hope you don’t mind terribly if I write again. This war has to end some time.
Your loving cousin, Virginia

6. Quotes from Novel “The twins giggled together.” (p.45)
“The twins, still sharing their identical grin, jumped up and ran round each other. Then the rest joined in, making pig-dying noises and shouting.
“One for his nob!”
“Give him a four penny one!”
(p. 75)