Summary: Lord Of The Flies

This book review examines different ideas by William Gerald Golding in the book Lord of the Flies, which provides different kinds of experiences that readers would relate to while interacting with the book (Golding, 1954). The author introduces the readers to different characters who perform their tasks within the intended contexts, and that makes them more predictable in their respective areas. The target audiences include literature students who would borrow the ideas explored while examining the book to apply the same in their different academic paths. Therefore, this study is a significant one as it gives the readers different ways of looking at things from a literature perspective in order to comprehend the intended message by the writer.

The Lord of the flies is about these groups of boys that assembled on a island.The group of boys ended upon the island because of a plane crash.The group of the boys needed a leader so a guy named Ralph and a guy named Jack had competed.The guy who had one was Ralph was know calling the shot and the other boys had no choice but to follow in behind.The boys were free from the rules and adults just only on a natural island.

As Donald J. Trump said, “The Theatre must always be a safe and special place”, and for once he is right, the Theatre is a special place place, where people and objects transform in front of our eyes. One element that helps make a play great, is if it effectively uses its sacred space. The definition of sacred space according to our lecture is, “A physical space that feels almost magical, sometimes it may transform or appear before our eyes.” Sacred space is not required to incorporate the entire stage either, it can just be certain parts of the play. I remember in reading the book The Lord of the Flies, that one of the boys when the world would get too intense for him, he would hide in a hole in a tree and calm down; that was his sacred space. Sacred spaces are used effectively throughout all forms of art. One item that is used frequently in safe spaces in the act of rituals. Our lecture definition of Ritual is, “Something that repeats. Each repetition feels the same and different at the same time”, kind of like how Star Wars The Force Awakens was basically just A New Hope. Joking aside Rituals are very important in literature, like for example in Lord of the Flies again, the kids would participate in ritual when they would kill a kid or a pig and chant “Kill the Pig, cut its throat, bash her in, drink its blood.” Throughout the four plays we watch the themes of Rituals and Sacred Space flowing through the veins of these stories, that carry the meaning of the works.

“Listen, everybody. I’ve got to have time to think things out. I can’t decide what to do straight off. If this isn’t an island we might be rescued straight away. So we’ve got to decide if this is an island. Everybody must stay round here and wait and not go away. Three of us-if we take more we’d get all mixed, and lose each other-three of us will go on an expedition and find out. I’ll go, and Jack, and Simon.” (Golding, 24) The boys find that they are indeed on an island using Ralph’s intuition. “There’s no village smoke, and no boats,” said Ralph wisely. “We’ll make sure later; but I think it’s uninhabited.” (Golding, 30) Ralph concludes that they are alone on the island. Again we see Ralph using his leadership qualities to help the group

One of the strongest forms of adversity came in the form of a strong and outspoken boy Jack; Jack often overwhelms and disregards things that Ralph, the chief of the boys on the island, has said to be done. Ralph, we can see, struggles to hold his control over the group of boys when Jack refuses to believe the importance of these jobs. Ralph’s biggest struggle against adversity against Jack happens during a time of

Ralph had stopped crying, and resorted to distracting himself with thoughts of seeing his dad and being home again. He knew that his Britain had been destroyed, but he held on to the hope that everything would be back to normal soon. He was more satisfied with his appearance after showering, which felt very foreign after only a couple of weeks. His hair was still covering his eyes, but it was less of a hassle since it was clean. Ralph mostly had been sitting in the large room with the other kids, but he kept to himself. Actually, most of the boys kept to themselves. The realization of what happened on the island hung heavily in the room, silent all for a few smaller kids crying together in the corner.

In chapter 3 an argument breaks out between Ralph and Jack over the group's priorities. Ralph is trying to build shelters and an SOS fire while Jack and his hunters are craving some meat. I agree with Ralph wanting the priority to be on getting rescued and staying alive, but I disagree with him complaining about it because he is the leader and it's his job to get everyone working. With Jack I understand and agree that people will get tired of eating fruit and other foods similar to that, but I dislike how he's complaining when he's the one that is responsible for hunting. The argument that these two boys have are what I believe to be purely because of laziness. However if they don’t set things right, this problem is only going to

Before starting The Lord of the Flies, a lone question that summed up the entire book was proposed: Are humans good or evil? Though it may not seem like a puzzling question at first, everything inside, and outside of the book makes it more complicated. If we are evil, then everyone would be turned against everyone else from the start, and if we are good, we would always be for everyone else at the beginning. Neither is present in the real world, bring up the question, what is humanity’s true goal?

Ralph shuddered; the chant still rang in his mind, over and over. Images ran through his mind. He watched Piggy falling from the cliff and Simon crying out as the other boys in Jack's tribe encircled him, trapping him before… he didn't finish the thought. In the corner of the room a conch shell glistened, he'd picked it up on the beach as they walked towards the boat. He had clutched it to his chest, much like Piggy had. The officers on the ship had shown him to his room and he hadn't left since, he had just sat on the bed, silent and still. Jack and the others were talking to the staff but Ralph hadn't said a word since he had first met the officer on the beach. He spent his time thinking about Piggy and Simon, what were they going to tell their families? How could they explain? He regretted everything that happened on the island. Their deaths were his fault. If he had just kept everyone together, none of this would have happened.

Chapters 1-3 Ralph seems a bit stressed. He was recently made leader of the group and seems pretty lost in all his decisions. He seems to hate his position, but doesn’t want to give it up. He is a bit of a bad influence since he is scaring the younger ones and also makes fun of piggy. Piggy is in a tough situation.

The boys are in the forest in search of more pigs to eating and the "beast". During the search, the boys find pig droppings. Jack tells them that they should hunt the pigs instead of the "beast". A pig comes out to the open and the boys see it. Ralph, who has never hunt, is excited by the chase and quickly gets caught up in the adventure. He throws his spear at the pig, but it only hits his snout. Jack gets a wound on his left arm by the boar's tusks. He proudly shows off his wound to the others and Simon tells him he should suck the wound so it will not get an infection. The hunters go back to chanting "kill the pig." While they are chanting and dancing, they are carelessly waving their spears at Robert. Robert drags himself away from the

Nevertheless, the boys are found by a naval officer, just as Ralph predicts at the beginning of the novel. The boys cry for all the things they have done, their loss of innocence; the officer turns away and allows them to pull themselves together, just as any person who has made a mistake may need someone to do for them. Perhaps all along the boys just needed a moment to put things in order. Notwithstanding, they are no longer ignorant of the beast inside of them, and though they are saved, their life will never go in the direction they wanted. They are forever changed; stripped of the ignorance of savagery and safety that civilization provides.

Although Xavier arrives home, Niska strives to keep him alive. Niska is not sure how to heal the wound Xavier has, because it is one she is not familiar with. Niska believes in the healing power of stories, so she tells Xavier her history as he sleeps and dreams to keep him alive (35). Niska hopes that “maybe some of the poison that courses through him might be released in this way” (89). The morphine takes Xavier’s appetite, so Niska “[feeds] him with [her] story instead” (130). Niska’s story about Sister Magdalene makes him smile, and Niska knows she is helping in some way and gives her hope. Niska talks to Xavier while he is asleep “so that the medicine in the tale can slip into him unnoticed” (259). Through Niska’s last story Xavier struggles with the pull of death, but as Niska keeps talking Xavier calms and breathes easier. Niska’s lessons help Xavier in the war, but her stories help him when he comes home. Xavier’s wounds are foreign to her, but she uses the power of words and the medicine of stories to heal him, and she is the reason that he survives.

“It’s another one of Aber Hael’s main attractions. People come from all over for our wares, but especially the seafood. I tell you, these people can fry, pickle, and salt anything.”

Summary of the movie: A gathering of young men end up stranded on an island and begin getting to be plainly savage. Reasonable Ralph turns into the assigned pioneer of a group of military children who crash in the sea and wind up on a rich island. Initially, the gathering began as companions, cooperating to survive, however soon they split into two camps, the other drove by Jack, who winds up noticeably lopsided and somewhat vicious. Jack has a no-rules, savage operation, with his young men running chasing for pigs and plotting assaults on the adversary camp. The head of a pig is put on a stake, and turns into "The Lord of the Flies." There is tumult battling about essential items, for example, the conch shell, to some degree an image of who's in control, and a pair of glasses, used to start a fire. Jack and his rowdy young peers attempt to take these. In the meantime, the tranquil and intelligent kid Simon, of Jack's gathering, sets out and finds a cave where a "creature" lives, the beast being the plane's captain who survived and hung out there. Simon returns from the experience shaken and filthy, at camp the young men assault him with lances, slaughtering him. Afterward, Piggy, from Ralph's camp is murdered when a gigantic rock is pushed and falls on him. Ralph fears for his life, knowing very well indeed that Jack is currently after him. Flames are begun to bait him out of the wilderness. A group of American militaries arrives, and encountered upon the young men, putting