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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
tense
fast-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
"If faces were different when lit from above or below—what was a face? What was anything?"
I was never assigned this in high school and felt a little fomo because of that. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but is it controversial to say that Golding fell a little short in describing the descent into the darkest depths of human nature? I truly believe Yellowjackets does it better, and that set my standards impossibly high. Maybe it's due to the focus on Shauna vs Ralph, the one embracing depravity vs humanity's last stand.
I, for some reason, always assumed the boys were American; maybe it's because I see a lot of parallels to American individualism and masculine culture, but looking back, most of those concepts are universal. The oldest among them was only 12, trying to picture that is almost impossible.
After some research, I found out that Golding was inspired to write Lord of the Flies after reading a book roughly a century older about British boys being stranded on an island and creating the perfect colonial fantasy of a "civilized" society. Now, after thinking about this book through an anti-colonialist lens, I can appreciate it much more. That said, Golding definitely did not have that in mind when writing this; he was just out to set the record straight: British boys are annoying, rowdy, sometimes violent, and depraved. Can Lord of the Flies be viewed as anti-colonial even when that does not align with the intentions of the author?
adventurous
dark
tense
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
in generale mi è piaciuto anche se è forse un po' troppo incentrato sulle lotte e aspetti ''''bellici''' per i miei gusti. La lettura è abbastanza scorrevole e comunque la storia appassiona. Sicuramente l'aspetto principale della storia è l'evoluzione dei personaggi e della società in cui vivono, un'evoluzione lenta e molto realistica. Ciò che mi è piaciuto realmente del libro non è tanto la storia che è abbastanza prevedibile, ma la psicologia della storia, i loro gesti che riflettono il loro modo di pensare e soprattutto una reale difficoltà umana alla collaborazione.
It started out reminding me of Lost (TV show) and I was scared it was going to disappoint me. I guess mainly because the story is over used (Lost, The Coral Island, Blue Lagoon and all its sequels) but it really suprised me.
The fact they are children gives the perfect opportunity to showcase how civilization works, with its negative and positive things, and it gives room to represent issues from an innocent and new point of view.
The ending was a bit disappointing but it was necessary for the story so understandable.
It's one of the first books I've fully annotated and it really helped in this case, both from a plot and literary standpoint.
The fact they are children gives the perfect opportunity to showcase how civilization works, with its negative and positive things, and it gives room to represent issues from an innocent and new point of view.
The ending was a bit disappointing but it was necessary for the story so understandable.
It's one of the first books I've fully annotated and it really helped in this case, both from a plot and literary standpoint.
This is just brilliant. When I first read this in highschool, I absolutely hated it. But reading it again in my twenties hits different. I cried so hard when the boys finally realised how dark human nature really is. Very well done.