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Summary: Blood, sand and savagery
Review: This is probably the best book I've ever read. Golding managed to stir feelings no other writer I've read ever has. It is definitely not a fluffy happy book, but deeply dark and disturbing. I shiver at the thought of the savagery that humans, that little boys, can come to without rule and order. Especially, the part they were beating up a fellow friend on the beach...... urgh...stomach churning stuff. Really amazing writing.
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Summary: Never should've skipped it!
Review: I am quite sure that I skipped this book way back in school when I was asked to read it for english class...well I was mistaken. 10 years post high school I finally decided to give it a try and I was wonderfully surprised...Not only was this a great adventure story of a group of 30 young 'castaways' who forage, fight, and fail to form any semblance of order, but it is also a great symbolic lesson of what happens when we deny the presence of evil and think that we humans can survive on our own without rules, regulations, or a religion that teaches us how to combat the 'beast' or the 'lord of the flies' that exists within each of us. We can only hope that we are rescued by the proverbial navy captain before we are hung on the double pointed stake.
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Summary: HMMM maybe!
Review: well i had to read this book for school and we went over and over and over the little details such as the metaphors and hows its a microcosm etc. I think that if you just read the book through once and then if you want to go over the tons of subtle details, this book is OK but beware of going too deeply into it! i found this book to be quite true of human nature and what humans do when left without the restraints of law and order and society. I give this 3 stars!
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Summary: Disturbing, gruesome
Review: William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" is undoubtedly one of the greatest books ever written. The slow process from civilization to savagery is perfectly structured. The tale of 30-or-so boys on an island, struggling to survive, is a comparison to modern society, some wishing to find food and fight, others wanting to take things one step at a time.
This novel is dark, horrific, and ingenious.
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Summary: This book Rulz
Review: I read this book when i was 12 and now im 14 and just recentlly re-read it and this book is awesome its really cool for normal people who just like cool stuff but for all y'all deep-thinkin people who care about a book having some hidden meaning its got that too so pick it up read it like just do it.
~rob
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Summary: the sophmore strikes again...another fave
Review: again, I blame my Honors English class for introducing me to this novel, but I'm glad. One of the most thoguht-provoking coming of age/human struggle works out there. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it from cover to cover. The notes at the end helped me understand as well, but the mood of the novel was there the whole time. Humans have qualities which put us above the rest, but if we stray from our systems then we become nothing more than animals ourselves. (basically a lesson I learned)
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Summary: A book for every person
Review: This book is one i will revisit all throughout my life. It is, i think, one of the most important books in history because it represents human nature. Okay, i don't want to psyche 101 all you guys, but this book challenges the theory in of the "naturall goodness of man", a theory rationalized in its similar predecessor, Coral Island. Golding suggests that maybe, just maybe, man alone is not good, and there may be a part of him that will always be evil in its own way (the id, for all you Freudians out there) It suggests that sooner or later, everyone would have been consumed by this primordial and savage part of oneself, all except Simon, the Christ Figure, to whom nothing bad would ever happen, besides having the fate of a martyr. So not only can most situations in this book be almost directly related to a Freudian analogy,even the characters, but you will also see that anything in the book he mentions more than once does have some kind of symbolic meaning in the book, and you can find out what it is. The book also lets some wiggle room, enough to include your own perspective and ideas. Bottom line:
a must-read!!!!
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Summary: A High School Student's Short Opinion
Review: I was required to read this book in my Honors Literature class. The book started off as somewhat interesting and grew boring, then interesting again. While the rest of the class hated it thoroughly, I took the time to really dig into what the book was about and what my teacher had to say about it. And now, looking back, I think that this is one of the most profound books I have read this year. The use of symbolism is incredible and the book has amazing depth...or maybe I just had a fabulous teacher. :)
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Summary: more good than bad
Review: Some people were right about how the author tends to go on and on and on, yapping about trees, rocks, sand, etc. on the island. In the novel, the descriptions were too monotonous and I did not notice that i was skipping vital parts of the book that were hidden between tedious plant matter... But once I started re-reading certain parts of the book, I've realized why the book won that prestigious whatever-its-called prize. It really did tell of the horrors of humankind that outweigh the good, and it's symbols were powerful, especially the lord of the flies character. The character I admire the most has to be Simon. Then maybe Piggy or Ralph. But Simon is a symbol of the good of human nature. Simon helps the "lilluns" reach the fruit, he gives Piggy his meat, and admires nature in his special spot in the island. He represents human instinct, but not the bad kind, not the one of selfishness and savage, but of goodness and kindness to everything as a whole. The sad part is that there aren't many people like Simon, and in the end, he is taken over by the evil, the "darkness", the "beast" that exists in the savage kids, and essentially in everyone. And sadly, before he could tell everyone his discoveries. What i find quite strange is that in the end, the savage tribe is saved by their own device. That's funny, and it didn't really seem fitting to the book's nature. But it worked to it's advantage, as it signify's the loss of innocence in the boys. When people say that this book is unrealistic, I ask them, "Well have you ever got stuck in an unknown Island with a bunch of kids you don't know for a couple of months?"
The children in the island represent society. Using children as a symbol only makes the effect of the novel stronger. A society that would rather listen to their instincts than reason (Piggy), the book plainly displays the darkness and evils of mankind in a nightmarish and cruel way, and perhaps that's why some people refuse to accept the main ideas of the book.
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Summary: A very intriguin book
Review: this book shows the inocence of a child and the agreciveness of nature. teaches some people a leason that not all that you see is what it seems. As the traped students show there agresivenesss towards the book.
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