Lord of the Flies of Key Ideas and Review

lord of the flies  Golding's iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an I can't say I enjoyed it It was an interesting exposition of the author's thoughts about what humans are really like, beneath the veneer of

The characters in Lord of the Flies possess recognizable symbolic significance, which make them as the sort of people around us Ralph stands for civilization No, the monster wasn't real it was how Jack would scare all the boys with, it was also used by Simon; as a way to protect his utopia

Genre Deconstruction: Takes a sledgehammer to the Kids' Wilderness Epic The whole story is a depiction of what would really happen if a group of kids After witnessing the atrocities of his fellow man in World War II, William Golding was losing his