Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
3 stars
Golding's "Lord of the Flies" was a book that I was never required to read in school for whatever reasons my high school felt. As a result there was always a mild curiosity about the title lingering in my mind thus I felt it was time to finally put it to rest.
I entered into the book with no real expectations other than what I had heard from others of it being a literary classic and one that everyone should read, but as I started reading it myself there was a part of me that wondered what was the point of this book. For the majority of pages I lingered hovering on the pages wondering why I decided to read it. It wasn't until I got about 60 pages from the end that I started to grasp what the book was. This book reflects what could happen to society in many aspects, but it doesn't do it well. The book doesn't work for me, but some books don't work for everyone.
I probably would have given this only 2 stars if it wasn't for the fact that I started to understand and enjoy it by the ending. I grasped that there was a more human undertone that I wasn't grasping as fully as could be, so I have to give it three stars for what it is trying to accomplish and I believe for many other reasons it actually does accomplish. Would I recommend this book to others? I would because it is still considered a literary classic and also it is a book that speaks to human nature, so others may be touched in a way that I wasn't by the story. It may help them to understand why as humans we need to learn to help each other and ultimately that we need to work together for the betterment of society at large.
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