Sigh. (Some spoilers. Yeah.)
Currently reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding, about a bundle of British schoolboys attempting to govern themselves after a plane crashed on a deserted island. So far, Ralph, the leader and main character, tries to figure out the mystery behind a beast living in the island. As of now and the past few days of reading this, I am disappointed and impatient.
I was told by a bunch of friends, classmates and teachers the same speech: "Did you read the Lord of the Flies? It's good". In addition, my sister decided to spoil it to me and told me a fat kid dies. When I found the book in my homeroom library, I decided: "Why not?" and begun my reading. There was no indication of flies, which I felt emotional about, but the saying goes 'don't judge a book by it's cover', only it's the title... so I guess you could turn down this book because there's no flies, right?
Reading up to the 27th page was easy. My first days of reading this went by pretty quickly. Then afterwards, days later, the same problems kept reappearing. It was until then that I thought, wow, this book is REALLY boring. I researched other reviews of this book and a site stated that this one received an award. It wasn't that the book was horrible, but I didn't feel anything. This book isn't that special enough to obtain a Nobel peace prize. The plot wasn't predictable but almost clique. However, at the same time, my emotions kept overflowing as if I wish to be in the book and punch a few characters. So, I decided to continue finishing the book.
While reading the book, I began to think about what this uncooperative, community of pandemonium was. I thought that William Golding was attempting to symbolize the hopeless schoolboys as a society. Ralph, a good leader but receives advice from his unpopular obese friend, Piggy, tries to govern a large group that contain lazy, scared, and disobedient adolescents. Along the way, Jack, a naive choir kid who was expected to hunt food, tries to govern the people with his own ways and then ***ks the whole thing up. He already did this twice, so I hope he dies soon.
Society just never learns.
SPOILERS!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete(I read this book 2 years ago and remember everything as clearly as purifies water ^o^
this response is from memory.)
I had to read it for a program once and at first it was interesting but later it just represents everything us humans would do. "WHY DID YOU GUYS KILL THE SMART ONE?" was what I was thinking about when they killed Piggy. But then if you think about it, many people who are smart would gain negative comments and rivals/enemies. Because everyone desire to be the best, they don't look at how hard it is to be smart. Ralph and Piggy tried their best to remain calm but because of their civil-teachings, it was not enough to stand against nature.
This shows that our dominant part will still exist in a hardship. We might say they were despicable for killing Simon as well, but it's an instinct of survival. We as people indeed has to go far beyond what we call "Civil" and "Chivalry" to survive what we've never encountered.
I'm reading this too!! I hate that people spoiled Piggy being eaten ... CANNIBAL :O I thought tropical island would be nice... But this may as well be King Kong
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