Lord of the Flies (Abridged Audio Edition)

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Summary: the morals of lord of the flies
Review: Some boys are abandened on an Island paradise , it is heaven . At first anyway . Ralph "the boy with fair hair" is made chief instantly as the others prefere his easy going ways to the angry and arrogant Jack . As time goes on Ralph has no one keeping to the rules , only simon is helping . Jack hunts and starts getting more people to agree with him at the fact that he should have been the leader . Jack is a great dictator so this works marvolusly . Jack does not like everyone though , he is mean to piggy as piggy is weak , he has asma and glasses . Jack feels no sympathy whatsoever towards piggy though . Soon Jack lures the boys away from Ralph and piggy and simon ( the democracy ) to his group of wild savages . If the boys have no leader , and when Ralph starts to nag like a parent the follow the one they see as strong even if the morals are wrong . Alot like how the germans followed hitlar long ago . The inocence these children had is dead when they start getting exited about killing , they have nothing to do on the island so getting exited about killing makes them want to do it more . They end up complete savages and when they are all hyped up after a dance at a feast and simon appears out of the dark the group of savages all pounce on him " they were no words just the sound of claws and teeth tearing flesh " . The children later hunt Ralph and Ralph does not know what hes done so wrong to be hunted , the fact is he is different and so if someone standed out they would be hunted or killed then and there . Ralph is the innocence and reason in the island so was piggy and simon they all still had a concience . The others were won over by savagery . At the end when they are all faced with what the most important thing was and they had forgotten it , rescue . They all think about what they have just done . The actual fact that they had killed people , and it could have been them too . Ralph thinks and " weeped for the end of innocence and for dear wise friend Piggy " . I agree totally that the point of this is exploring the boundary beetween human reason and animal instinct . This was written when a war was on though so the author thought evry one , when put in the cercumstances would be that violent and savage . It may not be so . This was written to make people think very deeply about reason and how awful people can be when in a horrible situation like that of in lord of the flies . And by the way if your wondering what the lord of the flies is , its a dead pigs head on a stick which the children gave to "the beast " as a sactafice , it later in the book tells Simon that there is no beast , they are the beast basically . And simon who had the intellect and understanding of the savagery and the beast now had the laguage to express and describe it to the others , when he found this out he ran to the others to tell them . Unfortunatly "the beast and evil in the children" got to him first .

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Summary: Lord of the Flies
Review: In this novel I think that the author purpose for writing this book was to state that all people are born naturally evil.I don't agree with the author though.I think that the people are changed into evil and not born into it. The literary element I think the author handled best was characters.I think this because he made each character have their own atutitudes and way they acted.Golding did a good job with giving the characters details. Yes I think this looks was believable.I so becaue everything that happened to them can happen to someone we know or someone we love. I don't think that there was ways the book was less than perfect.If I was a writer I would just make it more suspenseful to make people want to read the book.Thats how I would fix the flaw. stix

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Summary: Ok
Review: I think that the authors purpose for writing this was to send a message that there is evil in all men. I agree with him because the boys expressed it after they lost respect for eachother. They all showed some kind of evil on the island. The literary element that the author showed was symbolism. He handled it very well because it made you want to keep reading to see if his symbolism was true or not. In my opinion, this book was believable because imagine being on the for six to nine months. the boys went crazy thinking about how long they were going to survive which of course made the evil come out in them. The book was less than perfect in the ending. I probably would have had some cops investigate on why some of the boys that were dead looked the way they did. That would have been my way of changing the flaws.

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Summary: the symbolic story
Review: Lord of the flies is a book that potrays authority and symbolizm. However,the book dramatizes violence the author william Golding gives us a distinct description of how violent society could be without rules and leadrship. Other than the violence I believe this book was over all pretty good. Also sme of the themes of the story are beievable such as the stting of the killing of the sow which describes the young teen-age boys violenty taking the life of a mother pig I would also like to thank my teacher Mrs. zingaro for recomending this book to our class.

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Summary: Not Bad, But Not Great Either; Its OK
Review: The author's purpose for writing this book is to send a message to the readers. I agree with his message because it informs you of how cruel people can be. I think the literary element the author handled best was the characters. They were very well described by their looks as well as their actions. This book was believable because the way the story was written, because it has real personalities as real people. For example, when people are in a group they change to fit in, just like the characters in the story they all became savages. This book was "less than perfect" because it didn't have any girls and the ending was not very elaborate either. I would fix the flaws by adding more things, like girls to see how they would react and be more elaborate in the ending. If I were to rate this book it would be fair.

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Summary: LORD OF THE FLIES POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN RESPECT AND FEAR
Review: The Lord of The Flies was a suspensful story about a group of english schoolboys whose plane crashes on to a deserted island and they must struggle to stay alive and leave the island. There were a couple of different struggles. One was whether they follow Ralph's rules and stay civilized to get out of the island or do they follow Jack's orders and become pig hunting savages and eventually die there. The story kept me wondering about what happens next. This was one of the few books I've ever enjoyed. I recommend everyone that reads this to read Golding's Lord of The Flies.

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Summary: lord of the flies
Review: I think that the aothor's purpose was to tell,thtat everyone has some evil in them.I don't agree with the author's message,because Piggy was nothing but good.The literary elemnt that the author handled the best was symbolism.I think that because he used the conch,to symbolize rulership,and he used the pig's head,to symbolize death and evil.I think this book is believable.I think it's believable,because if some boy's stay on a island by themselves,you know there's going to be trouble.The way I think the book was "less than perfect",was when the boy's got rescued.If I was the author I would fix these flaws by,making the rescue more exciting.

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Summary: cool book
Review: I think the author was trying to say that without rules there would be total chaos.Thats just like if there was no rules in school there would be total chaos. The characters were very symbolic.Each character had a meaning for there themselves and something deeper. I think the book was very realistic therefore it was a good book. I would probably change the part when simon was talking to the pigs head though.It could sound a little more realistic.

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Summary: good book
Review: I think the author's purpose for writing this book was to show that there is a little, or a lot of violence in everyone. It just takes a lot to bring it out, some more than others. I do agree with the author, I believe that there is a little violence in everyone also. Out of all the literary elements, I think the author handled characterization the best. He made every character symbolize something. He even gave them names that had literal meanings, which were actually what each character stood for. Golding shows excellent characterization skills, in this classic. I think this book is believable. This can easily happen, and probably has happened in real life. I don't know if the level of violence would be so extreme. It is hard to tell because I have never witnessed a situation, in which somebody would have so much fear, that they would become that violent. If I could, I wouldn't change the book much at all. Maybe I would change the ending a little bit, in the sense of who died, and who didn't. I would've probably added some more characters also. One more thing I would've done is create a game, or form of entertainment that the boys invented, and frequently enjoyed on the island.

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Summary: Different from other books
Review: In the book Lord of the Flies Golding is trying to show how evil comes out of people when they fear the unknown. I agree with the message he is trying to send out to the readers because people are scared of what they don;t know and sometimes handle it in a crazy behavior. I think he handled the characters very well because you can see how different they are from each other and how much evil they they have in themselves. I think this book was pretty good and i would encourage you to read this book if you like adventure and want to learn new things.