Lord of the Flies - William Golding Reviews

This book is set during World War 2 - whn children were being evacuated from London. The beginning of the novel starts when a plane full of children crash into the sea, and have to swim onto a deserted island. The book has many adult themes, as when the children reach the island, the quickly realise the importance of creating a democartic system ...

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I first read it about 14 years ago in my school English lesson and I couldn't put it down then. I have since re-read it and still find it a great read which is not only a good story but an excellent social commentary on individual welfare versus the common good. I can see how they made this in to a GCSE text book ...

---Free Water--- Recently it would seem my health has went tits up. Quite literally. Not only am I just getting out of a rather nasty cold, my body decided to give way on me the other day. Let me set the scene for you: I am in the changing rooms at the local leisure centre having just spent an hour in the training pool, ...

The novel starts off with the description and background information of the main characters and the atmosphere around them. The reader is forced to read the rest of the novel and find the answers to the questions they have after reading the introduction. It is set on a deserted island which is very effective because the characters can not escape ...

This fantastic story was one that I thoroughly enjoyed reading, for it was very appealing, exciting and had an interesting plot. First written by William Golding and published in 1954, he wrote the story with his knowledge of human behaviour in the back of his mind after serving in the war. As well as fighting in the Royal Navy, Golding also ...

Unlike many others who have reviewed this book, I was not forced to study it at school. My sister had trouble studying it for her GCSE examination set text so I agreed to read it and help her with it; and as I remembered enjoying it I thought it?d be worth buying for another read! ...

Lord Of The Flies is the intriguing interpretation of human behaviour by author William Golding. Golding examines the differences between sanity and the effects that civilisation has on the human mind with raw animalistic instincts. The novel is one that invites a lot of thought and understanding, filled with allusions and symbolism, Lord Of The ...

“Lord of the Flies” was written by the author William Golding. I read this in secondary school - some of the best books I’ve ever read were at school, although, I didn’t appreciate how good they were at the time, I just remember I enjoyed them and they stuck in my mind. A disturbingly believable story, set in World ...

"Lord Of The Flies" was written by William Golding in 1954. It was his first and most famous book. William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911, he studied English Literature at Marlborough and Oxford University. From the beginning of his life he encountered war, he joined the British Navy in 1940 to partake in World War II. ...

Lord Of The Flies is about a group of boys who get dropped from a plane, in a pod, on to a deserted isand. Two of the boys meet together, Ralph and Piggy, and call an assembly using a shell they find, called a conch. Jack and his choir, Simon, the twins, Sam and Eric and many others join in this assembly. The boys are the only one's on the ...

I am going to write my opinion on the novel Lord Of The Flies (W. Golding). I thoroughly enjoyed reading this literay text, and have done several times. The first time I read it I assumed that it was about some school boys stranded on an island, and about how they coped with their new life. I was soon to learn after my second read of this ...

This is one of those classic novels that most people are forced to study at school – including me. However, unlike many of the ‘worthy’ tomes thrust upon us under the guise of education, I not only enjoyed this book, but many years later actually bought a copy to read since. That in itself should say something! In case ...

This book is extremely well written, particularly if you enjoy long and accurate descriptions. Golding goes into intense details with some of the events which occur in the book and envolves the reader very well. I felt nausiated when I read about one of the deaths in the book. It looks a lot at savagery and ritual, it is, however, somewhat ...

I was given “Lord of the Flies” by Golding as part of my English literature GCSE course the week before we broke up from School for the summer. That was what we were given to read in order for us to write about the capabilities of man and the regression from good to evil. I looked at the plain yellow paperbacked book and thought, ...

Lord of the flies, written by William Golding is about a group of boys shipwrecked on an island after their plane crashes killing the pilot. Ralf and Piggy are the first two characters we meet. With Ralf's cleverness and Piggy's ability to found his way around they find the other boy's stranded in the middle of nowhere on ...

'The flames arrupted with frightening speed, spreading through the tinder dry field faster than any of them could run. The greyish-blue smoke rose high into the sky, covering the sun like a vale of mourning, polluting the clarity of the summer's sky, casting shadows upon them. Adrenaline surged through their veins, and they took flight, ...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a very classy and thought provoking novel. This has brought critical acclaim if I can remember what’s on the back of the book. I think its the book that one William the Nobel literature award and rightly so. Thousands of students taking there GCSE exams would have analysed this book to pieces and so ...

I read ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding for my English GCSE and I was thoroughly impressed by it! It’s about a plane that crash lands on a desert island, and the only survivors are a group of schoolboys. As the novel progresses, their attempt at making life on the island civilised and organised is diminished, and ...

“Lord of the Flies” Lord of the flies is a thought-provoking novel written by William Golding in 1954. The book describes, in horrific detail, the exploits of a band of young boys, who alone with no structure to society make a striking transition from civilised to barbaric. The Lord of the Flies commands a ...

When I first had to read this book for my GCSE English course, I thought it would be another dull and boring study text. This was not the case,however at the age of 15 I took the book at face value, it is only after re reading it more than 20 years later that the true horror of the book really sets in. The book centres around a group of ...