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Chapter 1 The crash on the beach

What would happen if a group of passengers
survived a plane crash on a lonely island?
I’ve often wondered. Now I know. They help theinjured. They look for a radio or phone tocall for help. They light fires as a sign forrescuers. If help doesn’t arrive soon, theylook for food and water. And one other thingis almost certain. Someone like me would write
a chronicle.
Our plane – Oceanic Flight 815 – was flying
from Sydney to Los Angeles. Six hours fromSydney, the plane started shaking. Then it gotworse. We were in trouble. The pilot tried
to reach Fiji. He never got there. Our planecrashed on a strange island in the Pacific
Ocean. We were more than 1,000 miles from ourplanned flight path.
Forty-eight passengers survived the crash.
Most of us stayed on the beach, waiting forhelp. But fourteen survivors were more active.
They formed a group.
During our time on the island, strange things
happened to me. I saw and heard everything, evenpeople’s thoughts. I recorded what the people
did, what they thought and how they survived.
This is their story.

This is a traveller’s worst nightmare. Our flightfrom Sydney to Los Angeles has crashed on an island
somewhere in the south Pacific. Amazingly, more thanforty of us have survived. We are lucky to be alive.
But luck is far from our thoughts at the moment. We are
all too frightened. I hear people scream. I watch them runfrom the burning plane while others stand in disbelief. I
see bodies covered in blood, lying on the beach. Behindthem, smoke rises from the crashed plane. On one of its
broken wings, a motor is still turning. A man is walking
in front of it. Seconds later, there’s an explosion. Both theman and the motor disappear in a ball of fire.
Fear and danger
are everywhere. But
one man gives us
hope. He is a doctor
and his name is Jack.
He pulls people tosafety and looks
at their injuries.
He helps an older
woman lying on thebeach. Her nameis Rose and he hadtalked to her on theplane. Now she isn’t
breathing. A young
guy called Boone istrying to help but he isn’t having much luck. Then Jack
helps Rose and she is soon breathing again.

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CHRONICLES Part 1Prologue

A little later Jack realizes that he is injured, too. There isa deep cut on his back. I see him go into the forest and takeoff his shirt. He is losing blood. He needs to stitch the cut
but he can’t reach it. A young woman called Kate appears.
Jack asks her to stitch it for him but Kate is too frightened.
Jack tries to calm her. He understands fear. He has felt it
many times as a doctor. ‘I can let fear in,’ he says. ‘But only
for a few seconds. After that, I have to be strong for mypatients.’
Jack’s words are important to Kate. She becomes calmerand stitches the cut.

Q

During another explosion, Jack protects a girl called
Claire with his body. She is expecting a baby. As he getsup, he asks a large, heavy guy called Hurley to stay withher. Hurley looks uncomfortable but he doesn’t argue. One
thing is clear. Jack is a natural leader.

QBack at the beach, another strong personality hasappeared. He is an Iraqi called Sayid and he acts likea soldier. He has made a large fire. Charlie, a young
musician from a band called Drive Shaft, is helping him tocollect wood. Charlie wears white cotton bands around hisfingers. Maybe they help when he plays the guitar.
A main group ofsurvivors is forming.
There is Jack, Kate, Sayid,Charlie, Claire, Hurleyand Boone. Boone hasa sister called Shannon,
but they seem to disagree
all the time. There arealso two other couples.
There’s a man called
Michael and his youngson, Walt. The boy hasa dog called Vincent.
Walt’s unhappy becauseVincent has run off. Then there is Jin and his wife, Sun.
They are a Korean couple. Neither of them speak English.
The strangest person on the beach is an older man called
John Locke. Locke is the only survivor who seems happy.
He just sits calmly on the beach watching the ocean. Itstarts raining. People look for cover. But not Locke. He justsits there smiling with his arms open in welcome.

Q
Jack is quiet. I know he is remembering how theaccident happened. He had talked to Rose on the plane.
She was feeling nervous. Her husband, Bernard, had justgone to the bathroom when the plane started shaking. The
shaking got worse. Moments later, the back part of theplane disappeared. Then the same thing happened tothe front.
Jack woke up in a forest. Walter’s dog, Vincent, ran pasthim. As Jack began to think more clearly, he had madehis way to the beach. The middle part of the plane and its
passengers were there.
The front part was in the forest. ‘This is where the radiois,’ Jack thought. He took Kate and Charlie and they went
to look for it.

they were six hours
from Sydney when theaccident happened. He
was trying to land in Fiji.
But the plane crashed athousand miles from theflight path. ‘They will
be looking for us in thewrong place,’ he says.
He shows them theradio but it doesn’t work.
Suddenly, the strange
noises start again. They
are much closer now. The
pilot leaves his seat andlooks out of the window. Seconds later, there is a terrible
scream and his body disappears up into the trees. Jack andthe others take the radio and run from the plane.
When it is quiet, they return. Something makes themlook up. The pilot’s body is at the top of a tree covered inblood. ‘Guys, how does something like that happen?’asks Charlie.

QAs Jack, Kate and Charlie reach the front part of theplane, something very strange happens. There is a loudcrashing noise and the tops of the trees start shaking. It
sounds like a huge, dangerous creature. After a while, thenoises suddenly stop.
When they look inside the front part of the plane, theyfind the pilot. Amazingly, he is still alive. He tells them
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