Lord of the Flies

Hey! 

Today, I’m going to write about “Lord of the flies” a book signed William Golding. I have to admit, I didn’t choose to read this book, and it was for school. To be able to imagine my joy at first, when I’ve learnt I would have to read it, you have to know a few things. First, I am not a book kind of person, more a movie or series type (like you have probably understand reading my others posts).  Then secondly, something that you certainly have also noticed, I am not a native English speaker, so the idea of a big book in English wasn’t music to my ear.

But after this non-motivation phase, I received the book, first impression “ Whaaaat?”, an enormous fly on/behind a chubby kid. On the cover were also lots of very positive critics. So I started to read, and I directly felt in the book. So story takes place during the cold war, a plane hit by the storm crashed on a desert and uninhabited island.  On this plane there were only children.  All time long, we can see an evolution (or the opposite) of the way, a civilized and organized society can become a savagery. I convinced that is the part of the book that I prefer. It is maybe weird but reading about child acting and becoming savage, I often asked myself “What would you have done? *SPOILER ALERT* Would I have killed him?”.

So reading this book is exceedingly interesting, but something that is even more, is finding all the intertextuality and link with the historical context. Did you see the link with “the Garden of Edem” or with the “Bible” itself.

I recommend this book to everybody, who likes a book with a strong message but still a great adventure.  But once again, It's just a point of view!

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