Lord of the Flies

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Summary: Lord of the Flies
Review: Stranded on a island with no food,water, or shelter, there's absolutley no chance of getting rescued, and to top it all off, fighting a neverending battle with the beast within. These are just a few thingd those boys had to deal with. Watching them struggle, seeing what they would do just to survive, just reading these words that William Golding wrote with such intentsity,taught me many things about life as well as myself that no one else could.
The way the book Lord of the Flies was written is extremely amazing!!! Golding has so much talent, hardly anyone can compete. Out of all his good writting qualities, I believe that allusion and symbolism are the best. It's just how he finds ways to expressthe charectos anger and frustration, relating them to biblical allusions is truly amazing.you just never know what to expect. On page could be filled with life and happinessand the next could be up to the top with death and misery.
I believe Golding wrote this novel to warn us that evolution is not what it seems to be. There is some one living in us all, in the deepest, darkest corner of our minds called anger. Otherwise known as the beast. He is trying to tell us that we never what to expect. We don't even know what lies ahead. He is trying to tell us expect to unexpected. The future is a dark and distant thing.
In critiquing the book, first I would add a little more detail.Maybe adding a little more conflict between Jack and Ralph might interest the reader to continue,instead of tossing the book aside. Secondly I would change the ending around. Gosh! How could it end that way. Ssssshhhhh, I can't tell you anymore, okay?You will just have to read it to find out what happens.
It is byfare the best book I have read in my life!! I give it five flies( flies are equivelent to stars).I would like to congradulate William Golding in writting this book that has touched us and has chnged my life and hopefully yours too forever.

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Summary: lord of the flies
Review: The book, Lord of the Flies, is a story about a group of kids getting stranded on a deserted island and how they survive without adults. I didn't like the way that many of the kids went crazy. I know you are stranded on a deserted island but i don't believe that you would just go crazy like that. I know that being on an island like that would probably make you alittle crazy, but not enough to brutally kill two of your peers. They all knew that in order to be survive, they needed to maintain order. I don't believe they would just betray their elected leader just to have some fun. As for the characters, I like Ralph. He handled himself well in the situtation. I did his best to maintain as much order as he could. You could tell that Ralph was had the potential for a good leader. Jack on the other hand, I did't like. At first he seemed like he was a nice kid but then he turned on Ralph and formed his own tribe. I couldn't believe when kids actually followed him. Then he got everyone to turn on Ralph who was just trying to keep order on the island. At one point Ralph gives in to Jack and goes to have a feast with him. They then kill Simon because they thought it was the monster running down the beach. Jack just made things out of control with his new tribe. He turned everyone into killers. I like Piggy for one reason, because he was the only one to stay with Ralph. This eventually got him killed, but he was loyal to the leader that he elected. Beside that he was that great of a character. He seemed like he would get on your nerves after awhile. Thats mainly the reason I didn't like his character that much. The ending of the book was horrible. I was expecting something more to happen than for them to just get rescued. That is the main reason i didn't like this book

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Summary: Lordly book
Review: THE LORD OF THE FLIES, by William Golding, is an interesting book. About thirty boys between the age of six to ten years of age are trapped on a deserted island. Now, we all know what happens to boys their age when they are left alone in an empty classroom. Here they are, alone on an island, with absolutely NO GROWNUPS!!! The three main characters, Ralph, Jack, and Simon are very ironic. Ralph is a rich boy who is immediately elected leader over all of the boys. Jack is another rich boy, and he is the one who immediately starts breaking all the rules that the other boys have set up. Simon is a boy who is symbolic of Jesus. But another one of the characters is a boy called Piggy. Right from the beginning, you can see a conflict between Jack and Piggy. Piggy is poor, has asthma, and is almost blind and uses glasses. Jack teases him and makes the other boys tease him too. Can the adults come to save the boys before they completely lose it? I would recommend this book to all people, except for children under the age of twelve. It is truly an enchanting and thrilling book. Must also recommend THE CHILDREN'S CORNER by Jackson McCrae.

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Summary: The Beast is "Close, close, close."
Review: The plot of LORD OF THE FLIES goes something like this. During the middle of WWII, a British airplane full of male English schoolchildren is shot done over the Pacific. Upon reaching shore the survivors realize that all the adults died in the crash. The group of boys, aging in range from 6-12, bands together to survive on the island until they can be rescued. The tribe holds an assembly and elects a chief, a bright young man named Ralph. Ralph is a democratic leader and does everything he can to keep things together. He is joined in his efforts by Jack, the lead singer of a group of choir boys who turns the choir into a group of hunters; Piggy, an extremely intelligent boy who is chubby and wears glasses; and Simon, an eccentric young lad who suffers from fainting spells and seems capable of touching the spiritual world. Piggy and Jack don't get along at all. But Ralph and Jack begin things as friends. Things go alright for awhile, but there is a darkness on the island that everyone can feel. As the days pass into weeks, tension develops between Ralph and Jack. In his ambition to feed the tribe with meet, Jack slowly falls under the spell of darkness and becomes filled with pride. He eventually splits the tribe in two. Both pigs and people become slaughtered as civilization falls apart in a world of immoral and unethical chaos.

LORD OF THE FLIES is one of my favorite books of all time. I first read it when I was a junior in high school and was deeply impressed by the wonderful story. The story is full of vivid images that become frozen in one's mind.

Besides just being a great story, the novel can be read on a variety of levels. For instance, there is the conflict of man versus nature; civilization versus anarchy; democratic principles versus dictatorship. The book could be read as merely a psychological treatise examining the various states of the human mind. Or it can be read as a spiritual metaphor, illustrating the depravity of man outside of God's grace.

Besides THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, LORD OF THE FLIES is perhaps the most influential book of the mid-20th Century. The book wasn't well received upon it's initial release, but was "discovered" in the 1960s by college students. Since that time it has become a bestseller and a modern classic. It is highly recommended and one of the few books that I believe every American should be familiar with. Beware the Beast!

This edition of LORD OF THE FLIES includes an introduction by E.M. Forster, a selection of postnotes following the essay, and a group of selected critical analysis of the work.

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Summary: Good but kind of disapointed
Review: The story starts out showing how children are left to fend for themselves and try to make adult decisions. A fire is started and kills one of the children, showing how no matter what the circumstance a child is left to act like it only knows how to. The counch shell is also introduced and will be a "telephone" for the children and also a sign of power later in the novel. I wasn't to impressed with the slow developments of the first 2 chapters, there was alot of focus put on the children and not enough time spent describing the setting. The characters were highly detailed. Piggy is introduced almost as the adult figure, while there is Ralph who is more the neutral party, and Jack who is the complete opposite of Piggy. They introduce Simon to be like the conscience figure of the group stating how the only beast on the island was the boys themselves. It seems as though Golding attempts to show us almost a battle of good vs evil though out the book until the final chapter as we see the counch being destroyed and Piggy the only one with intelligence being killed. Ralph dodges numerous attacks through out the end chapters to be saved by a navy officer who comes to the island after seeing the smoke. I would have liked to see something happen at the end to the boys who were part of Jacks tribe, or at least see something happen to Jack. The story ends with alot of answered questions in my mind on what happens to the boys, having something to show us what later because of the boys would have been very nice. The story was fairly easy reading with some exception to the early chapters. There was a definate lack of interesting material. The later chapter from the point of the beating death of Simon to the last chapter was much more action packed and really does a good job of filling your imagination. I would have given it a higher rating but the slow begin is why I give it 3 stars.

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Summary: Is it about need for more police or a stronger family
Review: What I thought that this book said to me was that when we allow children to opperate in groups apart from family that we will have to have a police state in order to control the people that have become detached emotionally and morally. The boys come from a school setting that was structured. They are choir boys and may have come from different schools to join this choir...I say this because it seem that none had a relationship before they landed on the island. Is this not how it is when you go to a new school. Is most of what we have to get over emotionally as adults is the detachment that we experience by going to school. Is there a generation gap or are parents abdicating their role and teaching their children that feedlot education is acceptable. What is a family today?? What was a family 50 years ago and 100 years ago. How has the industrail revolution changed and degraded our families into the machine?

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Summary: READ THIS Book
Review: William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, is a story of details, adventure, and conflict. William Golding uses his excellent skills of being able to switch looks that he creates on characters by using a hefty amount of details. The details provide readers with the feelings of other characters. When I read books, I enjoy books that have plenty of details that make your reading more vivid in your imagination and allow you to feel as if you are in the story too. I like how Golding creates different adventures inside one big adventure to make the novel have more excitement and more creativity. William Golding is known for his outstanding conflicts in his stories. His books always have more conflicts than others because his are more enjoyable. For instance William has a conflict between the setting and a conflict between the characters. Most authors just have conflict in the characters. I enjoyed this book more than most books and that is why I recommend you to read this. If you enjoy action and like plenty of details then this is the book for you.