Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

20 reviews

rylin_marie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

this book is not what i was expecting. 

this book is disturbing. it starts out with a few innocent boys ages 4-12 who are stranded on an island, not aware of the war going on around them. as the novel progresses, the boys divide and turn into straight savages. even though the author is not a christian, this book has much biblical allusion. simon is a Christ figure. the very title lord of the flies refers to beelzebub or satan. this book highlights loss of innocence and man’s inherent evil. 

this book is so heavy. i can’t help but feel bad for the boys, even jack. they have been so corrupted to the point that death does not phase them. they are desensitized to murder. i genuinely cried while reading this which is crazy because i have to read it for school. the author did a great job of displaying the horrendous things he saw during his time in world war ii and his years of teaching at an all boys boarding school. this book is a parody of sorts on coral island, showing that a bunch of boys being stranded on an island is actually the farthest thing from paradise. 

i think this book is so disturbing because it would be a reality. the sweet innocent boys at the beginning turn into complete and total monsters. the author perfectly captured the built in evil of mankind. now i’m going to be sad thinking abt this book for a while. 

justice for piggy and simon 🥲

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Cannibalism, War, Vomit, Violence, Toxic friendship, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Gore, Death, Fatphobia, and Medical content

marblemars's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Child death, Colonisation, and Grief

blitz_ramna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I've known of this book since i was young but i never had the nerve to read it throughly until now. 
I'm aware that this book is forced-fed in school (I had to read it when I was a sophmore in high school). I'd be surprised if schools still recommend this knowing of all the book bans. 
Now going back to speaking of the book. This book is actually a good read, even though you may have to read in the mind of a preteen to teen. There are few scenes in which readers may feel uncomfortable, shocked, and tense (probably even get emotional). I, for one, felt all the emotions that I've listed while reading but kept on. Personally, I enjoyed the book, even though I knew what would happen. I also realized that the 1990s version of the film didn't put certain scenes from the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Xenophobia, and Bullying

There was a part of the book where the hunters were joking and doing certain sexual acts towards the pig/boar that they killed during a hunt. I thought I should mention because readers can see this as inappropriate and find it uncomfortable to read.

lyfeinpr0gress's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Bullying, Ableism, Body shaming, Child death, and Animal death

Moderate: Violence, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

augustst's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Bullying and Fatphobia

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

bluelizzz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Animal death, Blood, Child death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Violence, Fatphobia, Death, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Stalking, Mental illness, War, Torture, and Vomit

booknerdz28's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Excrement, Child death, Gore, Bullying, Animal death, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Physical abuse

caku's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Child death, Violence, Animal death, and Physical abuse

thehawksflight's review against another edition

Marooned on an uninhabited island, 'civilised' children and prepubescents are presumably unable to democratise, instead regressing into various expressions of 'savage tribe' behaviour. The relatively short read is an exposition of groupthink/de-individuation, populism, superstition and even manslaughter, among other things if you want to go deeper in your anaylsis.

I choose to believe in the essential good of humans, even very young ones, with a tendency toward collaboration and altruism during calamity. William Golding clearly thought otherwise.

The trope(s) have been copied, parodied, interpreted so much over the years that I found the book itself hard to enjoy in its own right.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Classism, Death, Mental illness, Body shaming, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Bullying, Dysphoria, Ableism, and Gaslighting

thearchivist03's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I deduct 0.5 a star because realistically, all these kids should've died in that fucking plane, and then this whole situation would've been avoided. Also, there's no women or girls, and I can't tell if that's a good or bad thing. I got an 85 on my paper about this book. I should've gotten a 90, but apparently, my evidence wasn't enough. Fuck you, Golding. -0.5 stars for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Violence, Animal death, Death, Child death, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Physical abuse, Grief, and Toxic friendship

If you're wondering about any specifics, during one of the campfire scenes, there is a boy who rapes the dead pig on a spit. It's still debated if it actually happened, but majority of theories say yes. Lots of power dynamics really heavily learning into mob mentality and manipulation. The physical abuse are performed by the boys onto other boys. It never brinks onto anything sexual, though those topics do come up during analysis of the book.