Imagine if your school was on an airplane for a school trip and unexpectedly the airplane crashes on a uncharted island. Now...there are no adults what-so-ever and you and your classmates have the island all to yourselves. Do you keep the order of civilization or give into your instinctual desires to survive? Well this what happens to Ralph and his classmates. They crash and no grown-ups survive the accident and eventually they find the other surviving boys and they decided to unite in hope of being rescued. At first, everything goes smoothly, but then the boys lose the aspiration to go home and thus havoc ensues.William Golding delivers a wonderful example that there may be evil in all of us if you put us in the right circumstances.
This is no way a super-easy read. There is a lot of symbolism like, which boy represents the evil in mankind and which represents the good. There are even some references to the Bible in this book. I'm not saying you have to know everything to understand this book, but you do have to keep an eye out and make note on each of the boys personalties.
This went past my expectations. I thought it would a boring lecture about human morals,but I was proven wrong. This book is quite funny, though I will warn you; there's a lot of violence in it as well (a lot more than I thought). The book might make you a little uneasy when you find out the true meaning behind the book and who the real "Lord of the Flies" is. I highly recommend that you picture your classmates as the characters in Lord of the Flies, because it makes the story seems more real and you connect with a characters much better.
Because of the gore, cussing, and somewhat disturbing message, I recommend that this book be recommended to twelve years olds and up. Anyone younger might not understand it, become bored easily, or have nightmares the following night. Besides that, This is a fabulous book and there is a reason we're still reading it 56 year later.
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ReplyDelete1st comment! Well, I read this book when I was in 9th grade, and thought it taught a valuable lesson/concept/reality check etc. It symbolized many things but the obvious was when things change for the worse, children form a society like adults and take action into there own hands.I would like to see the movie. Wonder if the library has it ?
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