The Lord Of The Flies Book Report

The Lord of The Flies, By WIlliam Golding has been a very enjoyable novel so far. Currently, I am on page 106 of the novel. The Lord of The Flies is about a group of children, (who so far are all boys), that are stranded on an island and have to survive. In order to keep things civilized, the boys elected a boy named Ralph to be chief of the group. However, throughout the novel, the author has introduced problems to the democratic system. (This being a wild beast and another boy who tries to be dictator.) Anyway, The Lord of The Flies has succeeded in hooking the reader at the start of the novel, and making the reader feel a variety of emotions. To start off, William Golding immediately drew the reader into the text. The author does this by making the reader question what

More importantly though, Golding’s book has been proven to be disturbing to the reader. To start off, Piggy is often bullied by the other boys on the island. (In other words, it shows a disturbing message of how people are always made fun of.) “‘Oh, shut up!’ (Jack said) ‘I got the conch,’ said Piggy in a hurt voice. ‘I got a right to speak,’”- page 46. In this citation, Jack is telling Piggy to shut up even though everyone with the conch is allowed to speak. (Notice how Piggy is hurt from this scenario.) In addition, another part of the novel that was disturbing was the chant Jack and the hunters were screaming when they were retelling the story of killing the pig. Page eighty two states, “Then Maurice pretended to be the pig and ran squealing into the center, and the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him. As they danced, they sang. ‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.’ As I mentioned above, these are a group of children singing this, which makes this incident even more disturbing. As a result, that is why Golding has clearly made the reader feel