Lord of the Flies
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Re: Lord of the Flies
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I should give it another try though.
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An island of many marvelous colors and phenomena leads readers through a devastating and feverish adventure.... A Compelling read from cover to cover.
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I read it for my literature class.
It is a nice story.
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I completely agree. Definitely a compelling book. I always love books that try to analyze psychology and sociology. Golding smartly took children, who we consider to embody innocence, and an uninhabited island without outside influence to analyze his opinion of our natural, instinctive behavior, which turned out to be predominately barbaric. It makes us question what actually keeps us "civilized."Ant wrote:Gannon wrote:Love it, one of my favourite books. I love how the children fall into the two groups, one trying to create a civilised state and the other totally barbaric and reverting to basic instinct and savagery. It raises questions about ourselves as a species, do all of us have this basic savage instinct in us and what would happen if society failed,say after a war.
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The story begins with right after a plane crash. And the schoolboys have survived the crash and find themselves on a desert island without any adult with them. The boy Ralph, leads the other kids, is assigning responsibilities for each one and he knows little more than the others. Stands with him, clever Piggy. Ralph's election is opposed by Jack, the other boy who has the capability of leadership. And Simon, symbolises pure kindness, foreseeing boy. The other one, Roger, pure nefariousness.
Under the leadership of Ralph, the plan is lightning a fire for to escape from the island. After a while Jack can not accept not being a leader and things changes. They accidentally kill one of the boys because they set part of the island on fire and after that they are separated into two groups. They hunt, kill pigs and start dancing absurdly after killing something.
There is a few things that we should understand in this book. One of them is what it really means to be immoral and the true meaning of evil. It makes us to realise how thin is the line between pure goodness and evil.
I enjoyed finally getting to read this classic and slowly discovering the meanings behind certain things. I also appreciated the symbolism of the characters. Overall, Lord of the Flies is an extremely readable book.
Enjoy!
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But I was scared too, I don't blush to say it.
Maybe I was scared beacuse I thought it really coud happen.
Sorry for my bad english, I'm italian
enjoy your reading (do you say so?)
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