Time to Read LotF again

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	• Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) William Golding Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 1262 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Book!

Lord of the Flies is a really terrific book. A group of school boys land on a isolated island because of a plane crash. The boys are happy because they have no adult supervision. The boys quickly generate some rules and group leaders. As the days go on the boys lose their minds and start killing eacher other. This book has a good message because it tell how without any adults supervision, things can get out of hand. I would recommend this books to anybody who is entering the 9th grade.

Lord of the Flies

The book Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding is a very well written book. The genre of the book is historical fiction. The setting of the book is on an uncharted island during the WorldWarII era. The book is mainly about a couple of schoolboys who crash-landed on an uncharted island that they are stranded on, without any adults. I think the theme of the book was to show that society cannot run correctly because of the natural, sinful nature of man. Some of the main characters are Piggy, Ralph, and Jack. Piggy and Ralph first meet when they when they wake up next to each other after the landing. Piggy is a chubby, little bossy kid, while Ralph on the other hand is a mellow and relaxed, cool kind of kid. They call together all of the kids that are on the island including a boy named Jack. Jack is a stuck up kid who is a prefect at his school and is the captain of his choir class. While the short lived bond of Piggy and Ralph's friendship becomes weaker, Jack and Ralph, who are both leaders seem to get along very well. Piggy and Ralph were friends, but when a person like Jack shows up a more strong, leader-like and Ralph-like kid is up to be Ralph's friend, Ralph quickly ignores Piggy to become Jack's friend. But as Jack and Ralph's friendship grows the contest for leadership of the tribe of kids grows even more. Even though the kids already voted for Ralph to be the chief, Jack is starting to show that he could be a better chief. I believe this because all Ralph has ever cared for is to keep the fire going, and keep the hope of being rescued alive. While Jack, a more ferocious boy, focuses on staying alive most of the time, and hunting for the hard to get meat. I think that this book is best recommended for older teenagers because most of the words in the book are very complex, and because of the violence that happens. The book, Lord of the Flies, is a very interesting book. Even though it has some very confusing words and hard to understand material, it should be given a try.

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Excellent teaching tool

My husband recently used portions of the movie in his history class, when I was looking for a good reference book this one popped up. It has good essay questions, mind mapping examples (using illustrations --not just words!) so he was able to use it to enhance the student learning process. Good Book.

Time to Read LotF again

Unlike most graduates of American primary and secondary schools, I managed to get through high school without reading William Golding's Lord of the Flies. I first read it to familiarize myself with the text in order to better assist a student I was tutoring. Since its publication in 1954 readers and scholars have found it to be a perfect subject for infinite speculation and theorizing as to its philosophical and allegorical underpinnings. But even apart from theory, Lord of the Flies is a marvelous novel for its attention to pure story. My recent re-reading of the text revealed Golding's real gift as a writer is in revealing tone, voice, emotion, and character.

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Boys gone wild

A group of British private schoolboys ranging in age from six to twelve end up stranded on a deserted Pacific island after a storm-caused plane crash amidst an atomic war. Handsome, twelve-year-old Ralph; his on again, off again sidekick, brainy, bespectacled, asthmatic, husky "Piggy;" and tall, skinny redheaded hunter-extraordinaire Jack aka "Merridew," who has become the de facto leader of a group of choirboys, are among the major characters. They vote Ralph in as chief, apparently due only to his looks and ability to locate and sound a conch shell. The survivors survey the island, set rules for speaking during meetings, start a signal fire, and build shelters. Ralph makes a proclamation: they (p 35) "want to have fun" and "want to be rescued." Things rapidly spiral out of control after the children split into two groups: one aligned with Ralph, the other, with Merridew. The adversarial relationship between the tribes worsens as does the members' behavior. With a fire gone out of control, the presence of wild pigs, the appearance of a ship, an unwelcome guest, and rumors of a beast, the boys live in a constant state of unease, worry and fear. Eventually, they are forced to choose: hunt or be hunted. Their world becomes increasingly savage and chaotic up to its perfectly written, climactic ending. Lord of the Flies is a terrific, truculent, troubling tale. Also good: I am Legend by Richard Matheson.

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William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert

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