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Summary: Tragic Happenings. Great Read.
Review: William Golding does a wonderful job of keeping this complex story at a reading level accessible to all respective age levels, although parents might want to think twice about letting more SENSITIVE children read the book. I say this because there are a number of scenes involving bloody fights or deaths and less experienced readers might find them disturbing. Overall, the book is great. It's a story of a small group of children marooned on a tropical island then forced to fend for themselves in its wild environment. As most of you probably know, a type of mutiny ensues, and the small band of miserable castaways breaks into two groups, one calling themselves "the hunters" led by a rugged and violent young man named Jack who thinks the most pressing responsibility he has as leader is to procure meat for his crew, and the smaller, nameless group led by the book's youthful father figure Ralph, who believes keeping a lighted signal fire atop a nearby mountain the most important island duty. The book flows nicely and keeps the reader's attention. It's a bit of a cautionary tale much like Orwell's "1984" or Huxley's "Brave New World." The morals of the story are easily learned and hard to forget, but I'll let you figure them out on your own. If you're looking for something engaging to read, you won't go wrong buying this.
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Summary: A novel concerning the nature of mankinds brutality!
Review: William Gelding's Lord of the Flies is an extremely powerful book about a group of boys whom are stranded on a deserted island without adult supervision. At first, there is order and the rule of law. However, after a while the society delves into savagery and intolerance. The most powerful page is when Ralph's weeps for mankind; "An in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and an unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy".
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Golding's Lord Of The Flies begins with a plane crash on an island somewhere in the ocean. A group of boys ranging in age survived and have no adult supervision. The children learn to survive, yet one boy always disagrees with their choosen leader Ralph. Jack, the boy that sees a need to disagree, starts his own hunting tribe. These boys become savages and do what they want to at any given time. The message to human kind is hidden behind a story about boys surviving, but it is revealed by the use of symbolism and that is why this book is fun to read.
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Summary: Ryan's Review
Review: Lord of the flies was a fairly good book. It is about a group of boys who land on a desserted island after their plane has crashed. No adults had survived the plane wreck, so the kids are without any adult supervision. Throughout the book the children learn to survive on their own by hunting pigs, and building shelters, with Ralph as their leader. But they cannot all get along, and when Jack starts his own hunting tribe the group of boys split. The boys in Jack's group always wanting to hunt, quickly turn into fierce savages. So fierce that others are endangered of being killed. After most of the boys join Jack's tribe, Ralph and only a few other boys are left to try to get themselves and the others recued.This is an event filled book with a lot of action always taking place. I recomend ti anyone who is looking for a good book.
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Summary: A Classic that is Pure Joy to Read
Review: Many people hate the books they read in high school, claiming that the language or subject matter is too stilted, pretentious, or just plain boring. THE LORD OF THE FLIES is none of them. Not only are the themes brilliant and stimulating, but Mr. Golding has dumbfounding mastery of the English language. Despite the fact that Mr. Golding deals with heavy, academic themes, his tone is never pretentious, and it is quite easy to read. Even for someone who is not a "literary luminary," the lyricism and sheer beauty of Mr. Golding's language will have anyone spellbound. He has complete mastery over his craft. The book has an intoxicating magic, just like the forces of the id Mr. Golding depicts in his dense work. If you like to be stimulated by great ideas, or just like to read an extremely well-written story (or both) this is definitely the book for you.
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Summary: Anyone For Pig On A Stick?
Review: I didn't like this book because of the gruesome behavior of Jack and the other boys on the island. They had been out of civilization for so long that killing a pig, or even each other, sounded like so much fun they couldn't resist it. I would give this book two thumbs down. Don't read it if you don't have to
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Summary: A Hobbesian Tale of Human Nature
Review: Lord of the Flies is one of those books that many of us had to read in high school. I didn't, but picked it up anyway-- and it has quickly become one of my favorite books. On the surface, it is a tense, exciting adventure novel, short enough to be read in a single day, but long enough to provide fulfillment. Lord of the Flies can be read, on another level, as a cautionary tale of the true state of human nature-- what Ursula K. LeGuin would call a "thought experiment." Like LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness, it is one author's attempt to decipher one facet of human nature by isolating it and stripping it of its support. In this case, a group of children are stranded on a tropical island during what appears to be the Third World War. With no adult authority, the children attempt to fashion their own society based upon the one they left. This quickly breaks down, however, and the true nature of Man emerges. As a thought experiment, this book works wonderfully. Isolated from "civilized" society, they are freed from the bonds and restrictions of it, and as children, are not as inculcated with the lingering values and mores that adults would bring with them. The stage is set for a clear glimpse of true human nature, were it to be freed of the bonds of society. In Golding's view, human nature clearly reflects what Thomas Hobbes called the "state of nature": the children live in a state of "continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of people, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The symbolism in this book is clear and precise, without disrupting the realism or flow of the book. Piggy, with his glasses and insistence upon order, represents society's rules and Freud's superego. Ralph, the obsensible leader of the children, tries to balance the wishes of the children to play and the choir to hunt with the need to keep a signal fire going and build shelter, and could easily represent Freud's ego. Jack, the choirmaster, with his anger and eagerness to hunt and gain power, describes the id at its most merciless. Many more symbols abound, but writing of them would ruin what is a fantastic story!
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Summary: conflict with a society without rules
Review: Have you ever wondered how people would behave if they were stranded on an island? Would their personalities and mind-sets change? "Lord of the Flies" helps readers see how people change when they have no rules and no structure in life. When a group of boys is stranded on an island, they learn who their friends are and how to survive from those that aren't. William Golding makes readers realize how cruel kids can be to each other and when they are on there own, in a sense, become like animals. The boys start by working together but end up splitting into two groups, therefore becoming enemies. The foil between characters enlightens the reader to realize the difference between the personalities of the boys. The boys' situations connect with their personalities and their sense of friendship and magnify their need for survival.
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Summary: wonderfull book
Review: this book has many symbolisim,and it is mainly about human behaviors. It shows that humans can not live without rules or how humans behave without rules. It can also be read as a political level. what i like best was the clarity of the book,the style of his writing and how the story was plot. To me, i think this is a very good book and that it should be highly acknowledged. lord of the flies is a wonderfull, symbolic, and a good book. I LOVE IT
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Summary: The lord of the Flies
Review: William Golding's book, The Lord of the Flies, is a very interesting and chilling story. The plot of the story is that a group of English boys become stranded on a deserted island from a plane crash. The boys try to gather food, construct shelter, hunt, and make smoke signals for boats to rescue them. Ralph is the oldest of the boys, and he is elected chief of the group of children. Ralph tries to put responsibility in the gang of boys, so they don't just eat, play, and swim all day. Piggy is Ralph's advisor. He is a little chubby, and his "specs" come in handy to light fires as signals to passing ships. Jack is the leader of a group of face painted hunters. He becomes a large nuisance to Ralph's idea of order and responsibility. Jack lures many of the boys to hunt with him. Through this turn of events, there are no shelters being made and the signal fire is not being tended to. Everyone is just hunting pigs all day. This fall of Ralph's plan becomes a large problem, and Ralph realizes that instead of being a hunter, he is the one being hunted.
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