Blog Post #13: LOTF Reflection

I enjoyed Lord of the Flies ver much. I thought it was very interesting and thought-provoking. For me, it was fun to tie the allegorical symbols back to the real world and understand the context Golding was writing in. The book was quite depressing in many ways, because the symbol of innocence in our world, children, were being corrupted by savagery and falling into such inhumane practices. This doesn't make the readers think very well of the characters, but it is very relevant to the world as Golding was trying to express. I thought the end of the book was very interesting, as well. The boys don't seem overly excited to be rescued, and this is probably because their lives have been forever marred by the truths of what humans are at heart and are capable of. There was irony here, too, because the kids are leaving their world of war and savagery and re-entering another one, where the death tolls are a lot higher and the suffering levels are off the charts. Overall, the book was a good thing to study in our class, and the darkness of the book matched the darkness of wintertime that we were reading it in. I enjoyed the unit and the messages and morals I took in while reading the novel.