Lord of the Flies 3

         I have finished Lord of the Flies and I can say it was pretty good. I would only give it a four out of five stars only because it got really boring at some parts but it was mostly very interesting. I do finally figure out why it is titled what it is and it just has to do with this hallucination a boy has where he talks to a pig head. Looking back to my earlier post I can say that it did revolve around human behavior. There were many things that happened in the book, in which you can expect that this also happened in early civilization. For instance, the idea of dominance was visible during the book.  Golding describes, “He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat” (Golding 7). This describes one of the main characters names Piggy. He is over weight, has asthma, and needs glasses. Because of his Piggy is looked down on. He doesn’t really help out too much and he soon starts to be rejected which the causes his death. Golding states, “Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed. Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone. (Golding 286). This describes piggy death. At a point in the book the boys split up into two different tribes. Piggy was rejected from joining one and then when that tribe felt as though he was trespassing, they threw him over a cliff.

         The book was very interesting when looking at how the boys behaved and survived there time on the island. This book probably wont go into my favorites list though. The plot was more of a flat line the whole time and it did get boring. Other than that very interesting.