Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Lord of the flies by William Golding

43 reviews

michayla13's review against another edition

5.0

dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail

andremay's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism

issyd23's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Atavistic mode activated. Justice for Piggy! About to wack these dumb kids with a conch 2🐷

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War

cowardlyteaman's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I find this book very hard to rate, but I loved it nonetheless.

I read this for an English assignment, and I'm glad I did, as I've been wanting to read this for quite a while.

Admittedly, the start and up to the middle is a bit slow and not that interesting in terms of action, but I still find it very important to get to know the characters and how they go from being just a bit mean to being barbarians. However, the beginning too was far from boring, it was just slower than the second half.

It's appropriate for a very broad audience! Kids, teenagers, adults, and boys and girls. Of course, no book fits for everyone, but I'd recommend for everyone to try and read at least once.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Fatphobia, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Racism

laindarko2's review against another edition

2.5

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Racism, Injury/Injury detail

_a_r_u_'s review against another edition

2.25

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I read this in one evening and oh boy. Its not bad, by any means. It’s a classic for something. But the characters, their actions and the implied message of the author haven’t aged well. At all. I hated all of the characters (except one) for the entirety of the book, and the only moment I was finally able to empathize with one its not because they have changed their ways and had a remarkable development, rather because they were in a situation of extreme danger and stress. The descriptions were ok, the plot is genuinely interesting  and it could’ve been so good if the characters and the message were different. 
The “only white english culture is the way of civilized men” message was… definitely something… the absolute BLATANT fatphobia was also something… like, at least give the kid an actual name instead of a degrading nickname name…
Again, this could’ve been good (it’s a good book! It’s enjoyable!) but it aged so poorly and has so many terrible decisions that I can’t see it having much more repercussion in the future…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation

Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, Torture, War

izzy_gs's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Fatphobia, Gore, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, War

Minor: Racism, Colonisation

jonssweater's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Violence, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Racial slurs

raveries's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is a brilliant book and a brutal deconstruction of the 'nice English kids are stranded on an island and have a jolly good time' trope popular in the first half of the 20th century. I hated it and would thoroughly recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Racism, Murder, Classism

Minor: Racism, Cultural appropriation, War

kathigusi's review against another edition

1.75

challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Racism