Lord Of The Flies

I'm assuming everyone who would read this has already read the book, but here is my opinion *MASSIVE SPOILERS*

Well Lord of the Flies is one of the most famous books ever written, and rightfully so. It provides a complicated view on the evils of humanity by creating a microcosm of our world, filled with symbolism, metaphors, and even allusions to the bible.

Now that's all well and dandy, but is it any good? Yes, it is.

The basic plot of the book is just that there are a bunch of boys trapped on an island and they become progressively more savage as time goes on.

This is a really cool concept, and it works really well. Overall, it really was a great book, but that isn't going to stop me from complaining about every tiny little imperfection, because otherwise what fun would this be?

1. Dialogue. The author does the dialogue in a really weird way, he does something like this.

Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Simon, and Samneric all gathered around the campfire.
"What should we do?" Ralph said.
"I don't know," Piggy responded.
"Maybe we should go to the huts?"
"But that's how my father died."
"I am so sorry"
"It's no problem"
"You guys! I was just seriously hurt!"
"Oh no, let me help you"
"I'm leaving you guys, I hate this tribe!"

WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?!?! He actually does stuff like that, and it drove me crazy because I would have no idea who said anything!

2. Chapters. At the beginning of almost every single chapter, we would be taken out of the action for some 2 page long boring thing. It was awful because you would have some really intense ending to a chapter, like this.

"The forrest echoed with the sounds of the screams of the childs pain."

And then instead of telling you what actually happened, the author would spend two pages with some boring unrelated thing.

3. Alright, I think most people agree with me, but the ending was lame. Sure it had some nice symbolism, and implied some stuff about society, but it was so anticlimactic and unsatisfying! Every person on the island has turned savage except one and they are about to kill him when..........

A huge crazy coincidence happens and he runs into a sailor who saves them the end. And it was kind of predictable. I think he could have thought of a more creative thing to end it with.

4. This is nonspecific, but there were a lot of blah areas. Towards the middle there were 2 or 3 chapters that just weren't very interesting.

So, with these four big faults, is it still worth reading? Yes, by a lot. With the intense sections like when Simon talks to the Lord of the Flies and is killed, to the thought provoking ones like the meetings, it is overall a great book.

I give lord of the flies 8 1/2 severed pig heads out of 10.