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22 Şubat 2015 Pazar

Lord of the Flies




   This one is from my English novel course. I really enjoyed to read it. It is a very good example of so called the most civilized nation. If you like to read it is a tiny book but if you do not like reading a film adaptation is available online also go for it. By the way it is a response paper and does not cover whole book just till the end of the fourth part.


 
Lord of the Flies

 

    Lord of the Flies is a dystopian novel by English author William Golding. It is the first novel of the writer and published in 1954 although it was not successful for the time but soon became a best seller and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools. In 2005 it was selected as one of the 100 best English novels also it has been adapted to film twice. The novel is about a group of English boy stuck on an island who tries to govern themselves with disastrous results.

 

     The novel is narrated by third person view and begins with describing of environment and also a blonde boy soon we learn that his name is Ralph then another boy finds Ralph called Piggy, it is his nickname. Cause of a plane accident they are there then they agreed about finding other boys. They find a shell and use it to call others so it works and all other boys including a choir group whose leader’s name is Jack, come out. They sit together and talk each other. They bring out that no adult is there to lead them so they need to elect a cheif finally, majority of group voted for Ralph and declare that whoever holds the shell also be able to speak and rest of the group will be silent and attentive. Ralph, Jack and Simon go to explore that if it is an island then they climb to the highest point and can not see any human marks of there.It is an uninhabited island then they decide to turn back. When they are walking down they find a piglet stucked in plants and Jack takes out his knife wants to kill the piglet but he just looks it then piglet disappears. Jack swears that next time he will kill a pig and eat pork. Afterward, they agree on that to make a fire as a signal for ships to be rescued from the island. Everybody brings something from the forest to fire but they do not have any light to burn soon they find the solution then they use Piggy’s glasses and with the help of sun light they make the fire but a problem they have now one of the little boys is missing who has a birthmark on his face and was scaring about a monster like a snake, Piggy notices his absence but except him nobody worries about the little boy they just go on.

 

    They do not complain about living an island and do not have any adult with them although they seem happy to be there alone and not to be under the rules of society and  law etc. They begin to arrage of life try to build shelters and at the same time some of the children are on charged to keep fire. One day when Piggy, Simon and Ralph are on the sea side they see a ship far from away them then they hurry to be seen by the ship but they find the significant fire is gone meanwhile Jack and other boys who are resposible to fire come out with a dead body of a pig. They are very happy and proud about the pig but Ralph and others are angry for them about the missing ship, missing a chance to get rid of the island but Jack seems reckless because he is the one who wants to stay there, put own rules and live away from civilization.

  
   Untill the end of the forth part of the novel Golding introduces of the characters’ features. For instance Piggy seems the intellectual character of the novel with his glasses and behaivors like an adult. I can say that he is the symbol of adults on the island because logical ideas come from him first but nobody listens him only when Ralph or Jack declare the same thing then everybody accepts. For Jack I may say that the representation of confusing feeling of the preadolsence age because he is neither adult nor child and a little bit wild somehow. Ralph seems as another logical character of the novel but his passion is to be popular and some times he uses his power for example resorts bullying to Piggy. It is a kind of obsession to be popular. Another important point is changing behaivors of children, for the first time Jack could not kill the piglet maybe he was sensitive but the next time he cuts the neck of the pig violently and is proud of himself to do this also it is pleasure to tell whole details of murder. We will see what happens the rest of the novel.


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