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  • Essay / Lord of the Flies by William Golding - 1098

    This book report is about Lord of the Flies. The author of this book is William Golding and it was published in 1954. William Golding was born in England on September 19, 1911. He was a British novelist, poet and playwright. His best work is Lord of the Flies. He received the Booker Prize for Literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage and also received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He participated in World War II. He was in the Royal Navy. From the experiences of World War II, he said, “I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who has gone through these years without understanding that man produces evil as the bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong-headed. World War II ended in 1945 and after a few years the world was still suffering from the aftereffects of the war. This temporal world was therefore not a stable time. The people who went to war were devastated by the war, as were their families. It is for all these reasons that William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies. The book that is Lord of the Flies describes all the characters of the human being. The main characters of Lord of the Flies are Ralph, Piggy and Jack. These three boys play the main main characters. Ralph was elected leader of the school group for the first time. He was a rational person who was good at trying to build shelters and maintain a fire for the smoke that would be a signal for rescue. The election of Ralph and the conch represented democracy. Piggy has poor eyesight and also suffers from asthma. Since his name is pig, he is fat. He is also one of Ralph's men and he suggested that by blowing the conch, that blowing conch made Ralph a leader. Piggy had a lot of good ideas and this shows that Piggy is intellectual. Piggy was killed by a red stone that rolled in the middle of a paper through the children. In Lord of the Flies, Jack and Roger and other members of Jack's tribe killed pigs to show their power. Especially for Jack, he used Piggy's death to show his power to the other boys and he shouted "Did everyone eat as much as they wanted?" continuously. In the book The Hunger Games, it is similar that rich people enjoyed hunger games in which selected people kill each other. Most people might mention Ralph or Piggy in the review section, but I think Jack is the most important character. in the book. If Jack doesn't exist in the book, the story may not make sense. In other words, if Jack doesn't appear in this book, the story will follow what Ralph wants. Everyone will work to build shelters and light fires to signal the smoke. So this story will just be a novel for teenagers.