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Summary: Good.
Review: Just wanted to assure all the students who are forced to read this that it won't be that painful. It's a pretty good story about two friends and jealousy and all that interpersonal stuff. I seem to remember there was symbolism and all of that so be sure to pick up the cliff's notes or whatever, that's what the teacher's use anyway; or did you think they figure out all that stuff on their own?
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Summary: I want to cry
Review: Just finished reading, and tears are coming down from my eyes. So touching and reflecting is this book that language alone can not describe it, and so deep and dramatic is this book's effects on me that I feel no power in me to evaluate its contents and to spoil its meanings. I am amazed.
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Summary: Quite possibly one of the best books I've ever read
Review: I absolutely LOVED this book. I loved the dual aspect of adventure story and symbolic fable about the perils of our times. I have never read any book that made such a dramatic point in such an entertaining and amazingly convincing way. Lord of The Flies is an incredible novel, and fast to read, too. Even if you don't enjoy reading books and looking for the symbolism in them, this is a first rate adventure story sure to please the young at heart as well as the seasoned reader.
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Summary: A book of a very different sort!
Review: 'Lord of the Flies' is a novel written on the forces of good and evil. It tells of the gradual destruction of the human nature. I can't tell whether the book is for children or for adults. The plot of the book is simple enough but the message Golding tried to give is very serious. A group of British schoolboys gets marooned on an uninhabited island while they were being transported to a safer place during Second World War. In the course of time the boys gets split amongst themselves and form two groups. Eventually their hostile attitude turns to war. The title 'Lord of the Flies' is very vague. You won't get the meaning of it till you have read the book. In fact you get to know who or what the lord of the flies is after reading more than half of the book. This is a well-written book and if you are a person who is looking for food for thought 'Lord of the Flies' is highly recommended.
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Summary: Very good, but very difficult
Review: I read this book in my English class recntly, all I haver to say is that this is a very good book, but just as annoying to read. The first time I read it through I had a lot of trouble in some areas, it was just too confusing. I had thought that everyone went insane. If you have a lot of time to reread this book and to think about it all the time, then buy it. If you're a very busy person that doesnt have time to think things through I suggest go to the movies and watch a movie that has no brians invilved in it, for example Dude, Wheres My Car
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Summary: Who will save the adults?
Review: After Lord of the Flies was originally released, Golding openly discussed his novel, and stated (paraphrased) that it was all nice and good that the children were rescued, but who will rescue the adults? Golding's comment, in so few words, sums up the whole novel eloquently. The novel truly is about the evil that lurks in people naturally, and that if society is not strong enough, chaos and primitive anarchy will result. In essence, we all need to be rescued. Golding's view is quite different that that of J.J Rousseau, who feels that there existed a noble savage, and that society is to blame for the exisiting problems. A very interesting read, especially the symbolism of the three main characters of Jack, Ralh, and Piggy as Freud's Id, Ego, and Super Ego. Also the character Simon is rather intriguing, as is the fate of Ralph, Simon, and Piggy at the hands of the savages. My question is: Did it matter that they were children, or would adults in the same situation reacted the same? Ponder it...
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Summary: A chilling but accurate fable
Review: It seems like, at some point before writing this novel, Golding had asked himself: "How much has the human race changed, morally speaking, since the prehistoric times?" "What would happen if a bunch of children, from an advanced society, got stranded on a deserted island and had to reproduce society?". So, after a plane crash, only children survive in a remote island. As they struggle to survive, we are witnesses to the undoing of civilization, once some of them, especially Jack, realize that the institutions, strictures and constraints of society are gone. And what we read is certainly frightening: deep inside, we still are savage creatures, bent on getting power and domination over the rest of us. Only Ralph and Piggy keep their will to bring about cooperation and collaboration, as the indispensable way to survival. But the rest won't listen: what they want is to swim and hunt, to play and to fight. The voices of civilization and peace will not only be ignored: they will be denounced and punished. Savagery will triumph over peacefulness. That society will have to start all over again, trodding the path from utmost savagery to civilization. This is not a political or a sociological novel, it is a fable. But something I learned or reinforced from reading it, is that the central beliefs and institutions of our civilization are not to be taken for granted. They need to be constantly nurtured, reinforced and reformed. For our basic instincts are still there, and exactly the way they were thousands of years ago. So, this novel is thrilling, fun to read, and interesting to think about.
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Summary: An interesting read
Review: I have just finished reading this book,and I must admit, it is one of the best so called "classics" that I have read. The really amazing thing about the book is that it is about a bunch of school boys, and as you begin the story, you realize and accept this fact. But as the story progessed, I found myself not seeing them as children anymore, but as adults..caught up in a life and death struggle for survival, and their sanity. This revelation comes at you startlingly at the end of the book. ( Don't worry, I won't ruin it for you!). Although it is at times hard to follow, because it is told through the eyes of children (I never did fully figure out what "creepers" are!). it is a wonderful read, and one I highly recommend.
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Summary: Redundant Yet Interesting
Review: Getting right into the story, William Golding has a good plot in the book "Lord Of The Flies" but some how knew to how to make me unpatient. The story starts on an island where a plane crash of young British boys had occured. The sorty takes the reader through the horrors of how these boys had to work together to survive and what struggles they went through with each other. William Golding did a good job of showing how much different people are and what different goals people have. "Loard Of The Flies" was a quick read for me yet it still made me impatient because the charactures kept repeating themselves. Ralf, a leader in the book, would always say "we need to keep the fire going." Jack, another leader, would always say "we need to hunt." Sure the book needed to state this so we could get to know the characters but we didn't need to read these quotes every five minutes This book was very similar to "Animal Farm," except it used people instead of animals. I saw lots of similarites in the two books and how power can get into the wrong hands. Some people like to abuse their powers and these two books show that really well. I think people who like to read about government would like this book because it relates to how a country is ran. Willam Golding did a good job of using description in which he described every little detail, whether it was a person, the island, or what the boys were doing. "The Bushes crashed ahead of them. Boys flung themsleves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers,screaming." This is just one of the many quotes where William Golding uses vivid details. I have been trying to add more details to my stories
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Summary: The Lord of the Flies
Review: I feel that this book reflects the society that we live in. In our world and the situation of the book. In their world and ours alike, we don't make piece, we have war and fights.
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