3.5

Lord of the Flies

William Golding
Book
June
2021

Review:

his was a depressing book. My favorite characters all died, and I still have no idea who the lord of the fly was. It was just not a very fun book to read. I am not sure why they didn’t just listen to Ralph; everything would have been much better. The people who came to rescue them were probably looking for the parachuter. I am still not sure why they ended up on the island in the first place, but the amount of trauma they are getting from this will be intense. I hope their families are ok because they mentioned a war, so maybe their families are dead already. I think some of the savages like Jack will be in mental hospitals, and Ralph has some severe brain damage. This is not a book I would read again, but the writing was pretty good, and the characters were well developed.

Trigger Warnings:
Animal death, Blood, Death (including child and loved one), Plane crash, and Racism

Synopsis From Book:

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”
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