Golding's Lord Of The Flies By JayZ on Jan 09, 2008 - Updated Oct 15, 2011

Lord of the Flies is one of the most recommendable books to date; its plot is entertaining and its depth conceivable. The novel opens with the unfortunate crashlanding of several British, adolescent children in a festering wilderness. They, unsupervised by adults, locate each other under the blaring trumpet of a conch shell and proceed to recreate civilization. The children, however, are not as tightly bound to the concept of civilization as adults; soon disorder rips apart the fledgling faux-civilization painstakingly created by some of the kids. Struggles over power, food, dignity run rampant and ultimately kill several of the children. Golding's statement through this groundbreaking novel is clear: savagey exists in all of us, children and adults alike. I personally found little in terms of moral insight or life lessons. Regardless, I found Lord of the Flies to be highly entertaining and occupying.