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Oh the dreaded 12th grade reading book was finally here and ready to present itself. The syllabus explained it all but of course none of us heeded the written warning. I assumed we were all hoping that our teacher would suffer from a lapse in memory and forget all about the mind-numbing three weeks of reading. As we sat in our seats a paperback book was passed down the rows. I watched as the stack that once held 12 books slowly start to dwindle down, and as it approached my desk my heart began to race and the theme song to Jaws started blasting throughout the room the tempo increasing with every exchange.
The music reached its finale and I was bitten, a book lay on my desk displaying an image of a boy dressed in a school uniform and a fly larger than the boy himself. Oh joy isn’t this going to be peachy, my sarcasm was taking over my mind about this book. As I continued to judge the book at every angle I flipped to the last page just to examine to number at the bottom of the page, 202, not bad I suppose. Then I turned to the back cover by where I was met by a quote that caught my attention. “Lord of the Flies (is my selection for The Book that Changed My Life) because it is both a story with a message and because it is a great tale of adventure. My advice about reading is to do a lot of it. – Stephen King.” Stephen King is well in my top 5 list of greatest authors to every put pencil to paper, and not only did he read this book and like, but it was the book “that changed his life.” I guess if Stephen King though something of this book then it must not have been too bad of a read. I decided to ventured into doing some research before I began reading the book allowing myself to gain so much needed knowledge, such as “do I really need to read this book myself or can I look on Spark Notes or read a few summaries that would explain it all”. To my dismay I ended up finding a back story about the book, learning that Lord of the Flies was a response to another book, R.M. Ballanty’s “Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean”. Once I saw the name “Coral Island” I was struck with the memory of reading it when I was a freshman, a peachy book not really my type but none the less a cute tale about people who were stranded on an island and were prefect beings and lived happily ever after. I decided to look into what was “Golding’s reply” to this story, and found much like “Coral Island” tale was centered around a group of boys
stranded on an island, Golding threw in a twist that the lack of order leads them to many fights and thus showing their evil sides. A quite different take on the book but obviously one that was far more interesting. As I delved deeper into the background of this story, Golding describes the true nature of human beings. The theme of this novel is that human beings are not perfect and that there is evil, the “devil” inside all of them. I couldn’t believe in a school where things were most of their concern was revolved around making sure a girl’s “jeggings” had pockets and zippers, and that their shirt followed the three finger rule, that we were not only allowed but encouraged to read a book in which title was a reference to the Hebrew name for Satan, Beelzebub, which translates to Lord of Flies. I finally decided that reading the book would probably do me the greatest service and not only that I was actually interested at that point. As I cracked open the book I was sucked into the knowledge and thoughts of Golding. As I treaded my way through his words, I found his representation of human nature to be dark and grim, but brilliant in its own right. It was fueled by a pessimistic and tragic tone, and motifs of the bullying of the weak by the strong and biblical parallels. I could think how someone’s mind could work as such a masterpiece. His words allowed you to be on the island living among these boys that are slowly becoming savages. He allowed to you feel not only the physical pain but the emotion pain of Simons death, and the despair and hopelessness of Ralph. His writing not only fueled you with emotion but allowed you look in towards yourself and ask if you could possibly be that savage, and uncaring. Would the world truly be that of the island if there was no order? It allowed you to take a step back and really think. The story is told by an anonymous third-person narrator who conveys the events of the novel without commenting on the action or intruding into the story. As a future lawyer the skill of being able to tell the story without it being interrupted by own personal beliefs is one that I must pick up on. Golding’s writing is truly distinguished by his gift of characterization, yet another skill that could allow me to be successful in my impending career. I remember craving to read about the savagery of Roger and Jack as I was drawn into their character only to be left trying to understand what caused Jack’s rapid descent in savagery. The way Golding was able to paint pictures with his words left me in awe. If only I was able to
decorate a scene as penetrating and frightening as he could I would be prosperous and opulent in life.

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