Customer Reviews

Readings on Lord of the Flies (Greenhaven Press Literary Companion to British Literature)

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This is an amazingly descriptive book. It shows that any one, even children, the most innocent can show their evil side when put in the right situation. Golding has used a snake to represent the evilness that occurs as the situation gets more and more desperate, and all civilisation breaks down. The way he has portrayed different aspects in the boys characters is very effective, and I could not fault this book.

As the subject line states, this book is not for the untrained reader. There are countless numbers of biblical allusions throughout this story, but the subtleties could escape those reading for pure enjoyment. We are reading this novel in my tenth grade English class, and I have enjoyed delving farther into this somewhat twisted novel

First off I disagree with one of the readers who says that girls would never become so evil. I feel the girls would and possibly be even more evil. The book was very descriptive, yet allowed the reader to enjoy the ups and downs encountered by the boys.

I do not get this book. How could little boys become so evil, it is sic. I know girls would not

We studied 'Lord of the Flies' for GCSE English and we think that this book has many hidden meaninigs.For example, we think that light, safety and hope of being rescued is represented by the beach, and that jungle represents the hidden darkness in human nature. We feel that the most important factor of the book is the conch as it represents democracy.When the conch smashed in chapter 11 it symbloises the end of democracy. The only bad point of the book is that Golding is to descriptive.

The book was like an escape. It let me wander to where the boys were, and think of what I'd do if I were in that situation.