Lord+of+the+Flies(JD)

Lord of the Flies book review by Jack Devoe For my book I read Lord of the flies. It was a wonderful book that I deeply enjoyed so let me tell you something about it. This book is about a group of private school English children who were on a charter plane during World War 2 when it got caught in a storm and crashed. At first the children wake up traumatized and dazed from the crash. The pilots obviously are dead, because the remainder of the plane is sitting out in the middle of the ocean. At first all the individual children figure the other children are dead, but then they start to slowly find each other. At first the children love the new life of “No parents, No rules”. It’s fun for them, but sooner or later they realize they need democracy and rules. They start to hunt and gather, even make little huts for them. But one day life takes a turn and they start seeing larger animals or “beasts” in their perspective. They find out they really actually want to go home and be their selves again, so on a hunting excursion one day they signal smoke for rescue, and in the end it comes to their aid and everything is just. I liked this book because it was just right up my alley, the amazing suspense and mystery that this book gave me was endless. The themes in this story are rules and restraint and that this world we live in must have them or we will end up no better than the boys in lord of the flies, cannibalistic and causing anarchy in all four corners of this community we live in today. One last reason I love this book so much is the reason it is a classic, and will be forever. This is because though it was written sixty years ago, the same principles and morals still apply to modern America, and every other country around the world. “Those who do not no history are bound to repeat it”-//Edmond Burke//

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