Lord of the Flies: A Novel

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Summary: ExTrA CreDiT!!!!!!
Review: This is a good book for people who like twisted kind of books. In the book the young boys who are stranded on an island turn on each other. And not only do the turn on one another, they also end up killing one another. I enjoyed it because the book didn't stay in one mood, the boys went from civilized to savage. I didn't care for it because I couldn't relate to what was going on.

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Summary: Book Review on Lord of the Flies
Review: Lord of the Flies is a very interesting book about a group of English school boys who are stranded on an island. The book takes you through the journey of these boys. They have to deal with the fear of the beast in the dark forest, the fear of each other, and the fear of no escape. The book shows how normal boys can turn into savages and turn against each other. The two main characters, Jack and Ralph, start off friendly but as the story developes tension rises, and things take a turn fot the worst. In the novel, William Golding uses suspense and mystery to keep the reader interested. I would recomend this book to everyone. Golding's descriptive novel will keep you interested from start to finish. It will also keep you in suspense about whether ot not the boys will get off the island.

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Summary: savages on a deserted island know how to have fun
Review: In william golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, he presents a very dark story with a dark theme, even if the setting of the novel isn't. What happens is a group of young british schoolboys crashland on an uncharted island. We don't know where they were going and what they were going to do when they get there, but I think they were being sent to a bording school where a war that was going on couldn't reach them. The whole theme of the story is about why these boys degraded to total savages, and why they were no longer caring about the modern civilized world when they did become savages. As all of this goes along, there are many symbolic things in the story itself, like one of unity, of rationalism, or of intelligence. So as the story goes along, these symbols either become unimportant or are raised in importance. Golding did this to show us examples of what happens when we lose these symbols.

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Summary: Poetic, Powerful, Authentic writing
Review: Not only does this book deserve 5 stars, but it is books like this one that should be the criteria for awarding 5 stars. When I read a book, if it doesn't move me like The Lord of the Flies, I hesitate to give more than 4 stars. However, after reading Golding's novel, I rushed to award top marks. An airplane full of English schoolboys has crash-landed on a deserted island. As their condition detiorates, loyalties and protocols begin to crumble and the animalistic side of human nature emerges within the group. As I stated in the title of this review, the writing is authentic. You won't find the string of cliches like you see with other authors. The story is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. One wishes for 200 more pages as the story climaxes with page-turning exitement. Golding's use of symbolism is genius. This book is on my "must reads of a lifetime" list. Put it on yours.

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Summary: PAPS sent this
Review: What struck me the most about The Lord of The Flies, was the ease with which Golding conjured up a world of kids: their habits, reactions and responses. The story is about a group of British schoolboys who are, after a plane-crash, left on their own in a lonely tropical island. The story is basically an allegory; and Golding does his work marvellously. The gripping story has a clear, straight-forward narrative, and is certainly one of those books I wouldn't mind re-reading, over and over again.

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Summary: The Lord of the Flies
Review: Title: The Lord of the Flies
Author: William Gerald Golding

I read the Lord of the Flies for a summer reading book for school. At first the overview that my teacher gave me, it sounded like it was a real interesting book, however once I got reading the book, I found that it was at all as interesting as it had sounded.
Here is a little overview of the book; a group of British schoolboys survive a plane crash and end up on a desert island with no adults to watch over them. They soon create rules about how to run the group and who should be leader. They divide tasks among themselves and even use a conch shell to determine who has the right to speak to the group at large gatherings. They soon create their own society based on the values they have been taught. They manage to collect enough food and even to keep a fire going in the hope of being able to attract attention from would-be rescuers. Later on in the book, the order in their society starts to break down, as their situation becomes more desperate and as alliances between different subgroups start to build. The group begins to turn on each other; a war begins between two divided groups with two completely different leaders. Some boys begin to kill off the other boys in the divided groups. The officer's ship noticed the fire raging in the jungle. The other boys reach the beach and stop in their tracks at the sight of the officer. Amazed at the spectacle of this group of bloodthirsty, savage children, the officer asks Ralph to explain. Ralph is overwhelmed by the knowledge that he is safe but, thinking about what has happened on the island, he begins to weep. The other boys begin to sob as well. The officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure.
The main characters of the book are,
Ralph - The novel's protagonist
Jack - The novel's antagonist
Simon
Piggy
Roger
Sam and Eric
The Lord of the Flies
I really did not like this book, when I was reading it; it seemed to be drawn out. Everything just to long to explain. At first it sounded like an interesting book, however when I got into reading it was not at all. It is just one of those books that I can not read with out falling asleep. It just didn't catch my attention form the beginning. There was nothing that interested me in the book at all. I found in many parts of the story, wondering what I had just read, I would have to reread that section over again, before I could understand what had happened. There were many sections of the book that I found myself confused. The scene of the book jumped from place to place making it hard to follow. Overall I just did not like the book at all, it just did not answer me from the beginning.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Kevin Brady

Lord of the Flies is a very enlightening book. It shows that with to much power people go crazy and do things so out of the ordinary. I enjoyed the book. Being a person who does not like to read, and is very picky about the books that I do read, this was a very good one.
Due to the violence of a raging war, an airplane carrying a groups of English students is shot down. The boys of the plane find themselves to be stranded on an island. After they gather all of the boys on the island they start to make plans. Two of the oldest boys Ralph and Piggy find a conch shell, they decided to use it in order to summon the rest of the group. They Ralph as their leader, Ralph appoints another older boy Jack to be in charge of the choirboys who are in charge of hunting and getting food.
The older boys set out and explore the island. They decide that they will light large torches to get the attention of passing ships. They gather wood easily, there is more than enough wood to have several fires. They use the glasses of piggy to focus the sunlight onto the wood and create fire. The problem is the boys were more focused on playing rather than monitoring the fire. The fire quickly gets out of control and burns a bunch of dead wood. The youngest of the boys disappears and they presume that he burned to death in the fire. The boys are very immature. They enjoy the loss of no adults and spend most of their time splashing and playing in the water. Ralph complains that nothing is getting done. They also fail in catching a pig, Jack the leader becomes more intent on catching a pig.
An approaching ship passes by, but does not realize anyone is on the island because the rescue fire was out. Ralph rushes to the fire immediately only to find that Jack and the rest of the hunter's have caught their first pig. They gather around a fire and reenact the hunt. Ralph quickly blows the conch shell to call a meeting to restore order. At one of the meeting one of the "littluns" tells that he is haunted by the thought of a monster on the island. The older boys gather and tell each other to think logically and figure out where this monster would hide during the daytime. They come to some conclusion that he might live in the water.
The boys that are responsible for watching the fire at night think they see a shadow of the beast, when they actually just saw the shadow of a dead parachutist, they rush back to the camp and tell everyone that they saw the beast. They organize a hunting party and go up the mountain, they see the shadow of the parachutist and run down the mountain. Jack criticizes Ralph of being a coward and says that he should be removed from power. The boys agree that they will never vote Ralph out of power. Jack runs down to the beach and tells all the hunter's to follow him. Jack declares himself the leader of the new tribe. Simon falls upon the dead parachutist, and runs back to the beach to tell everyone. Before he can open his mouth he is trample and beaten to death. The boys saw the shadow of Simon and thought it was the beast and killed him.
The next morning Jack's tribe of hunters attacks Ralph and Piggy. They steal Piggy's glasses and run back to their camp. Ralph and the boys from his tribe go to Jack's camp to try to reason with Jack. Jack order's that Sam and Eric be tied up, and one boy rolls a boulder down the mountain killing Piggy and shattering the conch shell. Ralph hides for the night, but in the morning Jack sends out a search party looking for him. As his hunters try to track him down, Jack sets a forest fire trying to smoke Ralph out of his hiding spot. Ralph is forced to the beach, and collapses in exhaustion. When he wakes up there is a naval officer standing over him. Ralph weeps when he feels that he is safe, but thinks about everything that has happened. The other boys reach the beach and also start to sob. The naval officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure.

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Summary: The Lord Of the Flies
Review: Chris Herbert
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Book Review

I had just recently read the novel The Lord Of the Flies. I thought it was a very good book. The author did a good job of making you feel like you were actually there with characters. I don't really like to read but with this book I was able to get into it and finish the book.

The novel the Lord Of the Flies was about a bunch of kids that are flying across an island during a war. Then the plane had been shot down. The kids end up landing on an abandoned island. As they hit the island they all get separated. Then a little bit in to the book they had all found each other and they decided to make a type of government to keep control on the island. Now as they go on in the book you got to think that they are all kids and they don't want to live under other kids rule. So as the story goes on they all start to turn on each other and start making their own organizations. As the book starts to develop there are a lot of different symbols that you start to realize. The symbols represent a bunch of different things the book and how some of the characters act. Then the book starts to get a little violent as they start to kill each other. Towards the end of the book they have completely all gone wild and turned against each other.

I thought that the book was very good. I liked the whole idea of the book. I think that it is a good book and I recommend it to anyone that likes to read. It was a short and easy to read. I liked how the author had described the book in detail. that's what made it a book good. The book had a good theme and I liked how they had kids trying to start their own type of government to maintain control. It was a good idea because you really don't know what kids would do if their were no parents around.