Summer Reading Response: Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Nataelle Pitts English 9/7/17 Summer Assignment Summer Reading Response: Lord of the Flies
My experience reading William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was quite unique. From the moment that I read the blurb, children stranded on an island with no adult supervision sounded quite intriguing. It might have been that after returning home after camping out at an abandoned summer camp with teenage campers for leaders is what made the 1954 classic slightly relatable and enticing. Though I would like to think that I totally understood what it meant to create “civilization” in the middle of nowhere, the lack of pig slaughtering and murder is where my experience falls a bit short. However, Golding book still sparked a sense of adventure and deep thought from start to end. Reflecting back on the

Additionally, his choice of character also aids him in conveying that savagery in the fight for power in civilization is something that is exhibited by man even as a child.Though children are often associated with innocence, by placing them on an island with such difficult circumstances can bring out the “beast” in them as seen by the murder of three kids on the island. Though they attempt to create civilization in the midst of a crisis, we see that the children slowly begin to lose their own values. Though the story is centered on the children's experience on the island, Golding does refers to the events happening off the island such as the fictional war happening on the mainland . The intentful juxtaposition between the island and the fictional the real world shows that they are one in the same. Moreover, the work communicates that despite the idea that all men are born good, with the fight for political power as a means of furthering civilization, can easily bring out the beast in all of society whether it is on an island or in society in general.