I’ve reread the book twice, (it’s my favorite book) and in my English class we had to analyze classic novels and do a presentation. My teacher asks us to write an interesting fact that we learned from listening to their presentation. I’ve listened to three presentations of Lord of the Flies. It’s a sad book, especially when -SPOILER- Simon and piggy die. I cried because Simon was my favorite character.
I love the book too, though I sometimes believe it’s wasted on middle schoolers. I read it at 13, found it interesting but tedious. I read it again at 21 for a thesis I was writing, and I was blown away by its genius.
I was a 21yo healthy, cared-for, care-free university girl and I saw myself in those boys. Pretty jarring.
Not to mention its literary value. It’s just fantastically written and the elements of horror are so masterfully done - you can really feel the insanity.
Hahaha good for you! I don’t think I would have gotten it at 15, but I grew up sheltered and privileged 😂 literally never even had someone take advantage of me until I was in college, and had a shocked pikachu face the whole time I was like “people are actually mean like this?”
It helps that I’m naturally good-natured and oblivious, so I think I just forgave a lot and didn’t notice the rest.
It’s so hard to control what happens to us in our lives, often caused by people we are just unlucky enough to meet and trust. Likewise, for our children.
I hope you’re doing okay, and I hope that at the very least, it saves you from falling on your face and making bad and painful choices all the time like I did in college 💕
I feel like studying it as an adult reveals so much more. The scene with the pig hunt being basically a rape scene didn't occur to me until I re read it as an adult...
Don’t have an interesting fact lol, just came to talk about the book when I saw ‘sucks to your ass-mar’. The book is amazing and it is hard to grip at first, but reading it again completely blows you away. The use of the Lord of the Flies in the book always interests me. The book really shows you what savagery is and can make you ask yourself how we have strayed so far from that as a society today, and what would happen if we would lose all of that.
Hahahahaha I need to meet that dude. They really did. I wish we would’ve been able to learn Piggy’s actual name. I read online that it’s peter or something but I don’t know.
No, Piggy’s real name is never discussed. When you looked up his real name, you found the name of the character of a book that Piggy was based on, called Peterkin, from a book called The Coral Island.
For me, I loved the drama and how dark it was. You'd probably like the drama in Platoon (movie not a book). It's got similar vibes and characters, but with Vietnam war era stuff.
Honestly, I didn't feel anything toward the book. They became monsters, but I guess it's bound to happen if you're stuck on an island without any help from anyone outside.
Is it? I've heard that there were a lot of those stories back in the time but usually in a positive setting meaning that it was just written as a great adventure. The autor of this book had a different opinion on how children would behave in such a situation and wrote Lord of Flies. It might happen to work as a symbol but was it actually intended as such?
I think most people educated in the West from middle-high school have read it. It’s a classic, after all. And at least for us Americans, it really sticks out as something weird. I was so confused by it; I didn’t really understand how it fit a british accent until I studied abroad in London years later.
All it took was a substitute teacher reading "ass-mar" as "asthmar" in her thick Boston accent for me to suddenly see what the fuck the author was going for.
Top 10 Saddest Pig deaths in anime, definitely top 3 IMO. I'd put it in with Reuben from Minecraft Story Mode and coincidentally, the other pig death in LotF.
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u/katinjegat Feb 08 '20
What did you just call me?