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Review: In high school, I remember thanking my lucky stars that I didn't have to read this. My friends all whined about it, and I considered myself lucky that I didn't have to endure the torture. Now that I've read this book, I feel like I missed out. I would have enjoyed reading and discussing this book in high school. Lord of the Flies is the story of a group of English boys who are planed wrecked on an deserted island. The oldest of the children are around 12-years-old, and the youngest around 6-years-old. It amazed me how so many of the boys didn't even realize what was giong on. I realize they are children and it probably seemed like an adventure, but it seems like they would have been aware that they had an accident. They seemed so "unaware" of what happened. At first, the boys saw their getaway from the adults as an adventure, but as the story progresses they start to delve into the "darkness in their heart". I don't even know where to begin with this books. There are so many themes that could be adressed. You could look at humans innately animalistic nature (that doesn't make them much better than animals), you could look at how the boys "society" paralleled the war-stricken world they lived in, or you could ponder on the "loss of innocence". Golding managed to pack many themes ranging from psychological matters to the relationship between people. I truly enjoyed this book. It's one of those books that you have to read more than once (or once very slowly) to grasp the many different elements presented to you. The only thing that I didn't like about this book is how Golding seemed to sometimes ramble about the landscape. Don't get me wrong. I wanted to know about the island, but he seemed to go on and on about one thing, and I would wonder if it would ever end.
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Summary: The Lord of The Flies
Review: The "Lord of the Flies" is an incredible journey, that follows a group of boys stranded on an island after a plane crash. All the parents on the plane have died, so this big group of boys has to fend for themselves. A big part of this story is about how the boys still create rules to govern the island. A leader comes around named Ralph, who has continuous argumments with Jack, the oldest, who himelf wants to be in charge. Things start off well, but sitings of a beast on the island scare many. One of the boys named Piggy, a very intelligent, but not liked boy, has great ideas and tries to get everyone to listen to Ralph and do what he says. One thing Ralph is big on is keeping a rescue fire going. Jack, makes a group of hunters to get meat and when their out hunting the fire goes out as a plane flew by, but couldn't tell anyone was there because there was no smoke. Ralph and Jack get into a huge argument that ends up seperating the boys into a group of rebelious hunters lead by Jack and the other group with Piggy and Jack. Jack's group has all but Piggy and jack. Gruesome and odd ending chapters see the end of some as the hunters kill them. The leadership and rules set on this island fall apart, and shows how rules can diminish is a second and things can turn ugly fast. This book was a very good one to read, it had a an ending that leaves you thinking, and a story that makes you think about your own life, and a great story about these boys on an island who have to fend for themselves, create rules, and watch things diminish and change drastically after disagreements and a fight for power take place on this island. I reccomend this book to anyone who is looking fo a fun and interesting story to read, that has a great ending that leaves you thinking about what's next.
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Summary: yayers
Review: The Lord Of The Flies is a very dark and unpredictable book that portrays the dissolve of a society in a smaller, more confined way. The way Golding starts the story you can tell that you're going to be for quite a ride, as he places you right in the middle of the action, perhaps to give you the chance to understand the confusion the children faced. This book begins with the children being thrown on an island and having to figure out a way to survive. They eventually seem to get themselves pretty well organized except for a few lazy workers. Then we start to see more and more people neglecting their work and this eventually turns into a small rebellion that continues to grow throughout the book. Since coming to the island the only two people there who had the ability to lead the group was Jack and Ralph. Ralph was clearly always the more rational of the two as he constantly focused ontrying to have people build shelters, and a fire, which he hoped would eventually be what saved them. Jack had a strange desire for hunting that slowly grew into a sick obsession by the end of the book. Jack eventually becomes fed up with the way Ralph is running things and branches away from the group. Support for Jack's group slowly grows as the book goes on. Either a desire to hunt or an unwillingness to work eventually causes just about everyone to leave Ralph's group except for Piggy. Piggy seems like a bright boy with good ideas, but because of his silly appearance and the complete disrespect he recieves from the other kids no one ever pays attention to him. The ironic part about it is that the cause of all the chaos on the island was the absence of an adult, which except for his age, was basically Piggy. While the children in the hunters group feared only the beast as they went on their daily hunts, Piggy and Ralph had to contstantly live in fear of the other children, who had become scary and unpredictable. The children in the hunters group revolved their entire world around the beast, who they had all accepted as real at this point. In this world they forgot about ever trying to get back home and seemed out of touch with reality as they casually talked about killing their friends. Another friend of Ralph's on the island was Simon, who never had much to say , but you could tell had a lot on his mind. To emphasize the drastic downward spin the islands tiny society had taken he punished the only two children Ralph could trust and readers had come to know. When the children all finally come back into contact with an adult he acts as an escape back to reality from the strange imaginary world that they had created.
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Summary: The novel is half-lost
Review: "Lord of the Flies" by Steven Golding has been applauded by students, teachers and critics alike decade after decade. Infamous for it's profound symbolism, I believe "Lord of the Flies" gives readers a chance to take a step back and look at similar aspects of their own society with a critical eye.
Set on an unknown island off the coast of England, a band of military-school bound boys find themselves stranded after a fatal plane crash, killing all accompanied adults, the plot of "Lord of the Flies" begins. Although generation after generation have taken "Lord of the Flies" for it's keen representation, I believe that most readers have also denied themselves half of the story, which Golding also brilliantly creates.
Through reading and re-reading this thrilling novel, I have found that Golding not only creates a symbolic microcosm, but also puts forth so much realism and almost stereotypic attributes within his characters and makes each one almost real. I believe that the actual story that "Lord of the Flies" gives it's readers more than one can see at first glance. Each predominant character (i.e.- the protagonist, Ralph and his group of antagonists, Jack, Piggy and Simon) plays off one another to make a plot of it's own. Remember this, future readers; look at all aspects of this novel, you may find more than you bargained for
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Summary: A Students Opinion
Review: Lord of the Flies dives deep into and remains inside the collective psyche of a group of stranded children. The downward spiral they go into is gradual and frightening to behold. Certain children are representative of adult personalities found in the real world. You have Ralph, the moral compass. It can be argued that he was the only one on the island to hold true to what he believed in without fail. A natural leader, Ralph is chosen as chief by the other children at the beginning of the novel. Piggy is an ignored conscience. He says logical things that would help the group, but is made fun of because of his annoyingly nerdy, fat appearance. A lot of people probably know people like this. Jack is another leader. But unlike Ralph, he rebels and does what he wants. The other children see things in Jack that they inheritanly think is cool and want to emulate. When Jack becomes fed up with piggy and Ralph's logic, he starts a new camp. Eventually everyone but Ralph and Piggy are in Jack's group. Jack's clan becomes caught up in the idea of a 'beast.' The thing that does not exist exists in the minds of the children as an unseen evil that will attack at any time. The beast is the one driving force that keeps Jack and his group going, and it is enough to cloud there judgement, eventually driving them to kill. Ralph and Piggy hold strong while everything goes wrong. Jack and his group ignore their mistakes and pretend like nothing happened. Jack makes things up and his clan automatically excepts it as truth. The last moment of the book is a powerful climax. Jack and the childrens' primal savagry comes to a head as they chase Ralph through the forest. They have let go of all hopes and truths that the outside world contains. The fire on the island reflects off their eyes. But when they witness a rescue soldier dressed in uniform, everything that had built up inside them collapses. The fire leaves their eyes and they seem to immediately forget all the things that were important to them on the island. Ralph is the only one that seems to understand that finally it is over, and that he alone did not falter. This book has a great theme and a wonderfully frightening atmosphere. However, I did not particularly enjoy the style of writing, and I thought the symbolism was gratuitous. All in all, a worthy read.
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Summary: Reeces review of lord of the flies
Review: I felt that this book was really well thought of in the first place. The idea is to have a few boys from a far away military camp crash in the middle of no where. They would have to survive on there own. Even Ralph the one who has the toughest time out of all the boys trying to be the leader but some retaliating must have been hard to come up with. Piggy the less suited for the tragedy was in need for help with after all of the harassment. The name piggy explains it all. Even before the disaster. Jack, the biggest savage of them all, was the most unhelpful. Between all of the fights and Piggies tragic ending, he was the one who caused the most problems. Even when they went hunting for Ralph he was the one with the blood thirsty eyes. The littleuns had problems all of the time being scared and all. The twins samneric must have been very horrified when the saw the (BEAST) or the dead man in the parachute. All of the sightings of the beast made the suspense even more. The rummaging through the forest in search of the beast all turned out to be rubbish. The ending of the book in my opinion was a rushing finish so I had no chance to enjoy it. I would recommend this book to all because it was touching in away and to all the kids it would be fun to have a shelter on a deserted island with no parents.
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Summary: Lord of the flies review
Review: William Golding's The Lord of The Flies drastically starts out with about 13 kids stranded on a deserted island. these kids were recently in a Air plane crash going back from a school.They are stuck on a tropical Island . They are very wise about how they do things. they split up into groups and collect food and water and also collect shelter. They orginize it like it is school. They have assemblies to represent there meetings. They have a conch wihich represents the bells. When one of them have the conch they have the permission to speak. The group of boys gets a bit roudy and they are all getting tires of each other. After about a week, Jack and Ralph split up into two tribes. All the bad kids go with jack and Ralph and piggy stayed togehter with all the good kids. The two tribes get into many fights. Jacks tribe becomes the tribe that becomes the fighters and catch a pig. They call for a big feast and all the boys are invited. BUt simon does not hear about the news. So during the feast he runs out and gets stabbed to death. then latter on they there was an incident about piggy. If you would like to read the book you can find out about piggy and if they ever get rescued.
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Summary: No doubt a classic, but still disappointing
Review: The Lord Of The Flies is without a doubt a classic work of symbolism. William Golding really did do an incredible job of linking every vague detail in his book to the ideas he had about human nature, and the post world war II world in symbolistic forms (The Conch, The Glasses, The Beast). Still, finishing the book leaves one with a rather bitter taste in their mouth. I feel that the extraneous amounts of unnecessary violence Golding included, and the extreme behavior of the characters as the story progressed really kept me from appreciating the true artistic essence, and incredible emotion of this book.
The story itself begins with a group of young military-school boys (who are assumed to have suffered a plane crash over the ocean water) landing on a small, uninhabited tropical island. Ralph, the main character, quickly steps up to leading the group, and gets the boys on track to getting rescued. He has them start a signal fire; make shelters, and just generally keeps them in a microcosmic society of the world they once knew.
The society quickly breaks down though. Jack (a boy jealous of Ralph's leadership) is overcome by his urge to hunt wild pigs and have fun, and finally leaves the group over a conflict of interest about the signal fire. Gradually everyone who once followed Ralph leave him to join Jack's primordial savage hunting tribe, where they hunt wild pigs and savagely kill them. This in itself is graphically documented throughout the book, and the boys' morals are gradually replaced with more primitive instinct and reasoning.
Before you know it, a book that started out fairly boringly is filled with rotting severed pig's heads on sticks talking to characters in the book (in their head, showing their mental stability starting to depart from them, but somewhat disturbing none the less), and Jack's tribe savagely killing some of the boys that didn't join them, for unclear reasons (being overcome by their lust for violence, rebellion from sane society, call it what you will). There is a sporadic parallel story going on, about a "Beast," which is nothing more than the boys' respective manifestations of their worst fears (and perhaps the fear of the consequences of their actions catching up with them), and this fear feeds Jack's tribe's ruthlessness towards the end of the book. Quite predictably, the book ends with the boys being rescued, but not before Jack and his tribe almost murders Ralph.
I really wish I could have appreciated this book more, but frankly the writer's negative view of the world (which was in turn reflected in his writing) was a little too depressing to be enjoyable. I do recommend the book as a good read at least once, and it is without a doubt a classic work of literature, but when it all comes down to it... I feel it is both a boring, and highly depressing story.
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Summary: David's Lord of the Flies review
Review: The Lord of the Flies is an interesting book that is unlike any other. It takes the cliched story of a plane wrecked group on a remote island and turns it into a thought provoking story of morals and reality. It starts with a plane crash on a remote island in which all of the children, which are boys from English Military Schools, live and (of coarse) al lof the adults die. Which creates a problem within an even bigger problem. The boys now have to to create a way to live on this island without the help and supervision of adults.
So we start the book with Ralph and Piggy finding the conch, a symbolic shell that they use to summon the other boys and as a moderater. So they summon the other boys and they create their own rules and they vote Ralph as the leader. They decide that their only hope in being rescued is if they make a fire and a passing ship sees the smoke. Early on they realize that they need to create a form of life just as the adults would.
But they aren't so lucky. As you would expect there are people who want to just have fun and go against Ralph. And the boy who sparks all of this is Jack. Throughout he is striving to become the leader. He is feels that hunting and getting meat is the number one priority. On the other hand Piggy and Ralph know that being rescued and staying together is the main priority. This of coarse caused Ralph to fude with Jack. This part of the book is the part that causes the whole thing to fall apart. I think that thisa is one of the things in the book that keeps me wanting to read it. It creates a real competitive feel to it and it makes you wonder when their angry climax.
One of the events that causes a separation between Ralphs group and Jack's group is the time when Jack and his hunters are supposed to be watching the fire but they decide to go hunting instead. The fire goes out and of coarse right at that moment a ship goes by. Ralph naturally atacks Jack and causes them to become rivals to a greater extent.
There are parts that make this book out to be a savage murderous tale. Two of the boys Piggy and Simon get murdered by the other boys. SImon in a accident where the boys get scared and think he is the beast. And Piggy is murdered when some of the boys get angry with him and drop a rock on his head. Although these deaths areunexpected they are needed to create the whole thing to just feel more crazy and makes you think afterwards about how their families will feel when they find out their children got killed but all the others lived.
But i think that the major flaw in this book for me was the ending. It ended with the boys all running after Ralph trying to kill him and then being saved. I agree that it causes you to think at the end of the book about what will happen. But i think that it should have either told more of what happened when they got back or they shouldn't have been rescued. i agree though that it did leave you thinking which gives you a chance to create your own thoguht on it.
This book makes you think about all of the things that you would be forced to give up if you were in there situation. As piggy says "We did everything that grown ups would do. Why didn't it work?" I think that even if the boys were replaced by adults it would still be the same, maybe a little tiny bit more civilized but not much.
Over all this book gives you an adventure like no other, that is real and that you can relate to. It keeps you wondering how you would act in their situation and that is the most interesting part of this book.
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Summary: Crash and Burn
Review: After The Lord of the Flies I had lots of mixed feelings. This book had its good and bad points. There were a few times when i got really into the book, but a lot of points where i found myself dozing off or just not paying attention to a single word i read on the page.
I really liked the begging of the book. It seemed like this could have possibly happen. The kids on the island formed a small society and create a form of government and a system like I believe anyone stranded on the island would be.
As the book progressed i became more and more less interested in the book. The author wrote a lot of the same ideas over and over like jacks going on and on about hunting. GET THE IDEA, CAN WE GET ON WITH THE REST OF THE STORY!
After a while i lost the sense of the characters actions being realistic. Jack forms a tribe that splits off of the rest of the kids. His tribe seems to be based on hunting and spilling blood. They start singing "KILL THE BEAST! CUT HIS THROAT! SPILL HIS BLOOD!" Which is the most random thing i can ever imagine anyone doing.
Golding in my mind never actually explains how the kids survive. The kids just live you don't really hear about how they find the fruit or the water. None of the kids ever complains (except about mean over and over...) about things like sunburns or lack of food being cold, things you would expect from a bunch of young kids trapped on a tropical island in the middle of nowhere.
Even though Golding does not address the main points in my mind, the points he does address he does very well. Ralph has a strong will to get rescued and him and piggy seem to be the only ones that are actually trying to get rescued. But Golding creates this beast that started out as just a nightmare into the kids killing each other because they are so paranoid. I wonder how the kids ever became so violent and bloodthirsty.
All in all i didn't like the book. But for people who like a very fantastic and random story in no way could be true; you might like it. If you are looking to read a serious book about survival in the wild i suggest hatchet which is very good in describing the way a boy learns to live (emphasis on the learns). He does not just run around and kill things like the kids in LOTF.
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