I’m about halfway through. No cannibalism yet.
I also have yet to figure out why its called Lord of the Flies I’m
predicting that the ending will explain why. So far it has been about the kids
that have been stranded on this island after a plane crash. There aren’t any
grownups, just the kids. The have developed a society among themselves where
they each have roles and things to do. Their leader is a blond boy named Ralph.
I believe part of the books theme is to look at human behavior. It kind of
shows how society might have operated in the beginning of mankind. So far it
seems that when you don’t have luxuries people start to get hostile and become
savages. Golding states, “Jack stood up as he said this, the bloodied knife in
his hand. The two boys faced each other” (Golding 109). In this quote you can
see how the kids are starting to turn on each other. At this point the two kid
were starting to get aggressive because Jack was supposed to keep the fire
going but let it go out. Ralph the leader was angry at him.
The thing that I always forget while reading
this book is the fact that they are just kids. They hunt pigs and build huts
and it is sometimes hard to forget they are just little kids. There was a time
in the book where Golding says, “they suffered untold terrors in the dark and
huddled together for comfort” (Golding 90). Quotes like these help be come back
to the childhood innocence this kids share. This quote talks about how the
little kids get nightmares so they snuggle with one another fore comfort.
I am enjoying the read. It does get a little
dull at times but it always draws me back in.
One thing you brought up that I never really thought about was the title of the book. Rarely in my reading does a book have title that takes a long time to understand so this could possibly be something more common of that time period than our current one. I think it is interesting how there are no adults on the island only kids, which seems kind of improbable but could be a part of the authors craft.
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