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Summary: RAR ! ! !
Review: Lord of the flies shows perfectly the dynamics of a group of military schoolboys. Changing as the line of command deteriorates. When they are put on the island after a plane crash. At first they follow reason make a signal fire collect food make shelter so that if there is a storm they will have somewhere to go. The two main powers are Ralph and jack. Ralph seems to the others to be a constricting adult. He pressures them to work and collect fruit tend to the fire instead of running around and playing games on the beach or hunting pigs to eat. Jack is the solution to this he offers a separate tribe to join instead. They paint their faces hide in wait of pigs and develop strategies to track them down. Eventually tempted by the new power most of the boys move over to jacks tribe because they are sick of work and want meat instead of fruit to eat. When there are only a few left with Ralph. Ralph and piggy try to confront the lack of interest in getting rescued also piggy needs his glasses back. There is a scene where piggy gets a rock dropped on him and Ralph fights with jack. As a spear glances off his side Ralph turns and runs to hide in a thick thorn bush the next day when they hunt him. His friends who were forced into the other tribe betray him and before he can be smoked out, he breaks their ranks. Later he hides under another bush in a shadow but Rodger finds him. As they chase Ralph shelters are bursting into flame.
The ending leaves you hanging you don't really know what is going to happen I didn't really like that though you do get to just make it up yourself. They kill each other. Piggy Simon and one other a boy with a mark on his face goes missing early on. As soon as the navel officer is on the beach they just stop forget that they are all savages or perhaps they remember that killing is wrong and they should have been organized. With the words" what have you been doing?" they all change. Also the torture of am and Eric with spears into joining the tribe and leaving Ralph by himself.
The whole book Ralph and Jack are fighting each other this seems to be more of the storyline then the obvious one of boys being stuck on an island and what they do. It Seems that its the fight between their morals and hope on being rescued. Ralph gets his hope from piggy and Jack to help ease the pain of never being rescued starts the tribe of hunters. Then he can take out his pain on tracking the pigs and learning the art of hunting.
Lastly Simon talking to a pigs head is just plain weird and i can understand why they take it out of the book for the movie except that this is the only reason that the book is called lord of the flies.
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Summary: a big disappointment
Review: After all I had heard and read about Golding's Lord of the Flies I was expecting a novel story, not a Rbinson Crusoe cliche, or at least some good writing/language, but what I got was a story that could have been conjured up by my 11 year old kid: lots of repetition (the conch, the glasses, the beast, the fire)and not what one could term an erudite piece of writing. How this book gets onto college lists is beyond me. Are we actually meant to interpret/understand the vague imagery, if that's what it is? Boring. Unfortuantely this is my first Golding book, and I'm afraid it will be my last... for some time at least.
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Summary: This is a Super Book!
Review: Golding's Lord of the Flies is a great book. It's a story about British kids who crash onto an island with no adults and form their own civilization. I thought this book was a little slow at first, but the end is very exciting and also perhaps a little creepy.This book is also great on a much deeper level beyond the basic story. It is full of symbolism and it has been said to be many things, such as allegories on things as varied as Christianity to Psychology. On the basic level this book shows the conflict between mankind's civilization and his naturally savage nature that is hidden deep inside all of us. This book is still very good, even if you don't care about symbolism!
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Summary: Scary...
Review: That may or may not be what someone hears when asking for one word to describe "Lord of the Flies," but that's the word I choose. What happens in this story is such a depiction of man and its nature to destroy, harm, and torment is vivid, impressive in its execution, and utterly unforgetable. A group of schoolboys, aged six to twelve or thirteen, are flying over the ocean when their plane is shot down during a war (I assume WWII.) The boys randomly scatter over an unknown island and go through eating fruit (along with its diarhea) until the main character and lead protagonist, Ralph, finds a conch shell with the help of his ill-named companion Piggy, and assemble order to the children. That is, until the choirboys show up, with their leader Jack. Jack befriends Ralph at first, but soon enough, their are trouble between the two. As leadership breaks down, and the children would rather go hunt than build a singalfire to be rescued, the true aspects of humans rise to the surface. The idea of a hierarchy of children on an island where they are left to themselves is an excellent idea, and the way Golding expresses it is equally matched. All of the children, regardless of age, ACT their age, and while acting in ways that may seem needlessly overdone, that is just what children do. Jack slamming his knife into a tree and glaring around overdramaticly is exactly what someone would expect an immature twelve-year old who has been confined to a life of strictness to do. Another example is Piggy's constant whining that he has the conch, even at the point where it no longer matters. What seems to be the perfect point of the childishness occurs later, as the structure breaks down, and Jack demands to be made leader. When he is rejected, his reply is "I don't want to play anymore," still not realizing that it is not a game, it's real. And worse, when the nonsense about "the beast" occurs, the children really do begin acting like island savages, worshipping the creature and offering it sacrifices, never once bothering to truly examine it, nor check later to see if it's still there. Once Jack forms his leadership and Ralph maintains his own, the collision of egos is bound to occur. The problem is that Ralph wants to help everyone off the island, while Jack wants to play and hunt. And, like children, when things really go wrong, they panic or pretend it didn't happen, and only at the climax do they begin to realize what's happened... and then choose to continue consiously. Golding's view of a tiny speck of land in the sea, with a small handful of boarding school British boys is an outstanding mark in literature. Reading it will cause several emotions to run through you, but when you think about it before the finish, perhaps one will be fear, either because you're afraid of being hunted, or afraid to be a beastly hunter. Either way, you'll be human. -Escushion
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Summary: A Chilling, Timeless Classic
Review: The basic plot of LORD OF THE FLIES is that around World War 2, a plane-load of British schoolboys is fired down above a deserted island. While no adults survive, the boys are quick to form their lives again, as best they can. In the beginning, a leader, Ralph, is chosen to rule the boys fairly. However, as time passes, many of the boys become much more interested in hunting for meat than actual survival and help from the outside world. This antagonism evolves into what is seen as the "decay of man", or the fall of civilization, and soon, these two ideals clash, until the uncivilized hunters finally hunt the remaining civilized one, Ralph. Also recommended with this novel (if somewhat totally unrelated, but I just need to share it) is THE LOSERS' CLUB by Richard Perez.
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Summary: A Simply Amazing Book
Review: It is uncanny to me how realistic, honest and truly amazing this book is. The characters aren't merely subjects having to deal with events imposing from the outside world, they are a representation of the human race, it's dowfall, and it's cruelty. Everyone should read this book.
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Summary: one of the few "classics" worth reading
Review: this book was short and an easy read filled with symbolism..for those who dont really care about symbolism this is a great story about kids stuck on an island who start to kill each other. Unlike other classics like the scarlet letter which was a disgrace to literature.. lord of the flies is worth the read. It's near impossible to put down and does not go on endlessly for no reason, nor does it take forever to get to the point.
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Summary: This was the worst book i ever read
Review: this was a terrable book dont read it has no plot or story line and you will hate it dont waste your time or money
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Summary: ehh...decent
Review: Again another book tagged as an "enduring classic" is, to be blunt, a disspointment, and at many times a horrible bore. I myself do not really appreciate the writing stlye of Golding. It seemed to me all of his quotes ended like this-- This was very frustrating to read, giving me the feeling more was to be said, but was never written, often bringing me off track while i was reading trying to wonder what the character was trying to say and i would realize i had read a page or 2 and had not the slightest clue of what i read. Another problem that i found within this book was the sheer number of unimportant characters the continually are mentioned. Characters with no background or character development are often named, making me feel as though i missed something, again taking me off track of my reading. Overall the story itself has an interesting idea, in my opinion, this interesting story is quite frankly ruined by the poor quality of Golding's writing. A frustrating read, filled with obscure as well as obvious symbollism, I would not recommend it.
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Summary: ZZZZZZ
Review: This book is so boring! The only reason I even finished it was because I had to (summer reading for english).
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