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Summary: Lord of the Flies
Review: Lord of the Flies is William Golding's best-written novels of all times. He captures your mind and attention right from the beginning and keeps you reading till the end. His descriptions and attitude helps you visualize a mental picture of the characters. It is extraordinary how Golding grabs you with his words and makes you feel like you are sucked into the novel. Golding's novel is a combination of horror, drama and adventure all in one. It keeps you on the edge of your seat and in suspense on what will happen next. The author makes you firmly hold the book as you read just in case something jumps out at you.
It is a brilliant story about young boys stranded on an island after a horrible plane crash. They have to learn to survive on an uninhabited island with no adult supervision. It is left up to a group of boys to establish order and a civilization until they are rescued.
Golding shows symbolization of Christianity through his character Simon, a choirboy. Golding moves on to show you evil also exist within the group through Jack and his followers. This group clearly demonstrates cruel and devilish intentions.
It is such a descriptive piece that you can visualize and get a scents of feeling about the island and the characters. You feel the events as if they were occurring right before your eyes. It is spectacular how Golding keeps the reader interested until the end and even after that the reader wants more. I recommend every one who loves adventure and a thriller to read Lord of the Flies. It is an interesting novel that sends out messages about human ways to live life, along with the message of evil verses good.
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Summary: Lord of the Flies
Review: Lord of the Flies is a very well written book. At first and for the most of the way through the book it is slow and just informs you on whats going on. Not many things are going on to the point where it almost gets boring, but just when your starting to get fled up with the books slow pace everything goes crazy. Poeple start dying and some other poeple start freaking out. William Goldings very descriptive writting brings some very graphic images to mind. The way Golding adds many hidden meanings in the book alsoo makes it very interesting. You start to realize that the book is more than just a common story of boys deserted on an island and what they do to survive. The book has much more meaning that and if you can figure it out it actually makes the reading fun. All in all this book deserves 4 stars at the very least.
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Summary: Lord of the Flies, by William Golding is a great book
Review: The book The Lord of the Flies is a very good book to read. It's a story about a dozen boys who are stranded on an island alone after the plane crash kills their parents. Their biggest struggle was finding leadership among a group of immature children. The main characters of this story are Raplh, Jack Merridew, and Piggy. Ralph is the oldest, Jack is the leader of the choir, and Piggy is a fat boy who has no friends. The theme of this story is that everyone should stick together no matter how bad conditions get. As you near the end of the book, the boys begin to spread apart into a group of savages with no rules. Sadly, all the disorder ends in two of the boys deaths. I recommend this book to anyone from the 7th or 8th grade. You should read it sometime. It is a really great book.
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Summary: Ugh
Review: Golding's implication that "painted niggers" and "savages" represent the darkest aspect of human nature reeks of the worst imaginings during the European colonial days. I'm giving the book 3 stars because it was decently written and well characterized (Golding's got a good handle on infant behaviour), but I cannot stand the message.
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Summary: Beelzebub, for teenagers
Review: This novel is my favorite of all time. It is so realistic and scary, because it is totally clear in its tactics and themes all at the same time! The characters in this novel realize by the end that humanity and goodness in the human heart does not exist. And that civility and propriety are simply facades created by the restraints of a general will in society. The characters, by the end, all face up to the darkness of human nature. What sets them apart, however, is how they react to this knowledge. Jack and his followers deal with it by killing those who are about to tell them the truth about themselves-that they are out of control and that the beast of decay, destruction, insanity, chaos and paranoia has taken over their souls and has made them as dark and evil as he is. Ralph, on the other hand, denies it right up until he is being hunted like an animal, and then accepts it with tears and sobs of grief for "the end of innocence, the darkness of a man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." In short, this story takes us into a place that we never want to go, and tells us things that we don't want to believe about ourselves.
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Summary: One Of the Most Realistic, Relevant Novels Ever Conceived
Review: Much of today's sour response to William Golding's 1954 classic "Lord Of the Flies" is the result of high schoolers and book club members who are assigned the book as required reading but never manage to get past the printed type in order to uncover its true message.
With "Lord Of the Flies," (named after a Hebrew description of the devil) Golding takes human nature and exposes greed and violence in its darkest aspects as it overcomes young innocent children; a group of English schoolboys becomes stranded on a desert island after a plane evacuating them from a nuclear scare goes down. But that's only the beginning--Golding takes the reader and, with stark reality, shows them the young boys' growing paranoia, eventually splitting into camps and becoming engrossed in territorial violence which ultimately results in some of the young boys' deaths. Written with a subtle yet complex approach, "Lord Of the Flies" is the ultimate example of the futility and grimness of a world on the verge of nuclear self-destruction, right at a time when the Cold War was beginning. "Lord Of the Flies" is a notably brave novel that dared to defy the entire apple pie/pleasant valley Sunday veil which most of the world was hiding behind. Its extended metaphorical approach is brilliant--exposing the unpredictabilty of the modern times, in a world left scarred by the Second World War, by using children as the comparison. Nearly half a century after it was published, "Lord Of the Flies" remains just as bold, stark, chillingly real, and all too relevant as it was when it first appeared.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I read this book in high school and didn't like it at first because it was a little tough for me and the attempts to get off the island seemed to drag on to the point where I no longer cared if they got off the island at all but then I read it again and seemed to like it. It was a favorite for most of the students in my class so I decided to give the novel another try and I'm glad I did...I read this book a second time very quickly as I was intrigued by everything that went on in LOTF and I learned a valuable lesson in that if you don't come together in a time of need you will suffer and also that we sometimes fear what will happen and fear to help others so we are classified as "beasts" I found something valuable the second time I read this novel rather than the first go around...Do read this book..I think you will enjoy it and get a lot from it.
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Summary: The best book you will ever be assigned in high school
Review: Don't buy the Cliff's Notes: read this book for yourself - you will enjoy it and remember it for the rest of your life. And if you watch a movie version, read the book first. The old black and white film version cast with British kids is a million times better than the more recent color version with American kids -- probably because American kids are *already* savage...they have no civilized habits to lose! :-) There is an incredible scene in the book where some older boys toss rocks at a younger boy who is playing in the water. The author notes the the older boys are careful not to throw the rocks too close to the younger boy: I believe he calls the protective perimeter thus formed the circle of civilization or something. Anyway, it's a great and important passage; look for it. It foreshadows all the madness to follow. Here's a suggestion for a term paper (it worked for me): The character named "Piggy" wears spectacles that he fastidiously cares for when the boys are first marrooned; however, the spectacles are slowly demolished step by step as the boys descend into savagery. By examining the condition of Piggy's spectacles, you can judge how bad things have gotten on the island.
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Summary: Amazing ... great story and insight into the human heart
Review: Reading the reviews for this book makes it clear that there are two camps of readers of this book: those who read it in high school and those who read it later in life. Count me among the latter. I didn't know what to expect when I picked up this book. I was pleasantly surprised by Golding's depth and sharp insight. Despite the youth of its main characters, Lord of the Flies is not some juvenile adventure novel. Golding's bleak commentary on the absolute evil (the "Lord of the Flies") that lies in our hearts, waiting for just the slightest opportunity to throw civilization into chaos is chilling and powerful. I hope that those people who read this book in high school go back and read it again later in life, especially those who did not like it. Lord of the Flies is not an exercise in finding symbolism and motifs ... it's about understanding the point that Golding makes through his story. Lord of the Flies is clearly one of the more compelling and intense books I've read in a long time. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A very interesting story
Review: Lord of the Flies is a very good book to read. It tells about how a group of british boys learn the meaning of survival after their plane is crashed and their stranded on an Island with no parents. It's also about how living on the island changed their lives. The 3 main charactors are Jack, Piggy, and Ralph. Jack is very pushy to Piggy because Piggy is fat, wears glasses, and has asthma but is friendly to Ralph. But all that changes when Jack lets a fire go out that causes a plane that passes by not to see them, after Jack becomkes more aggressive and just cares about hunting. Soon Jack starts his own tribe and the group slowly seperates from being with Ralph to going with Jack. Jack's group starts doing mean things like stealing Piggy's glasses to make a fire. Anyone who reads will be interested on how Ralphs group tries to do whatever they can to resist the clutches of Jack's and Jack's group's aggressiveness goes from hurting to killing! Any body who reads this will be very interested in the story. GET IT.
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