Title : The Lord of the Flies Author : William Golding Summary One fact about this book should be established from the start - this is not a children's book. The "littluns" and "bigguns" represent members of the human race. The conflict between law and barbarism would have, I believe to be the same had the island been inhabited with adult survivors instead of children. The novel is about a transition from an immensely exciting adventure of some children, to what eventually becomes full-scale war, ending with the arrival of the naval officer who rescued them. Tough I still wonder if they were really saved, considering the atomic war which, at that time was still raging around the globe. The book begins by introducing the two of the characters - Ralph and Piggy. Ralph finds a conch (a shell shaped in such a way that when blown it will sound) and blows it, summoning the rest of the boys, who were on the aeroplane and survived the crash. Last to arrive are the choir, who are descr!
ibed as a "black catterpillar moving along the beach." On closer examination is is found that there is a wide variance in the age of the boys, from about 6 to 12 years of age. From here on in the book the younger boys are simply ref
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Ralph is infuriated by this and Jack breaks Piggy's one of the lenses of Piggy's glasses. Ralph is elected chief of the group and his first action is for Jack, Simon and himself to go on a scout to check if the island is really and island or is attached to anything else, they find that it is an island and return to the rest of the boys. Ironically they were saved by the smoke from the fire of the island burning. When the crowd see him, with mass hysteria they think he is the beast and club him to death. When they reach the top of the mountain, they think that they see the beast, and run away. He recognises early on that there is no beast, and they are simply afraid of the unknown, that the beast is really inside them. Jack says that if there is a beast his hunters will hunt it down, but the boys have little faith in this proposition. Simon also puts forward the thought that "Maybe it's really only us" but because of his shyness cannot really formulate the idea. He displays rather childish behaviour and says "I don't want to play with you anymore" and leaves, attempting to form his own "tribe. Jack Jack is about 12 years old and probably reasonably strong. But unfortunately it gets dark before they arrive at the mountain. This symbolizes the engulfing fear which is overriding most of the boys. He seemed to be very dominating over the boys towards the end of the book, which I believe was his true personality. Jack's tribe's fire goes out when it rains and he steals Piggy's glasses in the night. " Simon goes to his place in the forest and has a strange encounter with the devil, who tells him all about how nobody can kill him because he lives within them.
Approximate Word count =
1570
Approximate Pages =
6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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