Currently
I am reading the book “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. This fictional
novel was written in the early 1950s has won a Nobel Prize in 1983; the novel
is also considered a modern classic. The story in this book revolves around a
group of British schoolboys, whom under a midst of the next world war have
survived a plane crash. These schoolboys are now stuck on a tropical uninhabited
island, and are left to care for themselves without any adult supervision. With
all this freedom, they able to do anything they want. Anything.
In
chapter one “The Sound of the Shell”, we meet our protagonist, a fair-haired
athletic boy named Ralph. At the lagoon, Ralph encounters another schoolboy,
this boy is quite chubby, but he is intellectual, at least he looks
intellectual with his thick glasses. As they are talking, the boy introduces
himself as Piggy. From this conversation, we find out that, they are in wartime,
and that their plane got shot down, and landed on a tropical island. As the chapter
progresses piggy finds a conch-shell, which Piggy realized he got use for some
sort of a trumpet, to summon the other stranded boys on the island. This was a
success and the other boys start to show up on the beach. The oldest one among
these schoolboys were around twelve years old, and the youngest being around
six. Furthermore, stranded on this island, the boys that realizing that they are
without any supervision and starts to elect a leader, the one who was chosen for
this job was Ralph.
As
the story progresses Ralph finds out that they need some sort of a food source,
so he established a hunting squad, who got the main task of finding food. The
one he choose for this task was Jack, a boy who wanted to be elected for
leader, but lost to Ralph. Jack takes two other choirboys, with him and starts
playing around in the jungle. As they are playing in the jungle, jack spots a
trapped pig, and reaches for this knife. As he tries to kill the pig he finds
out that, he does not have the courage to go through with the deed, and vows to
himself that next time he will not flinch.
My personal opinion on this first chapter:
This
novel proves to be a quite fun to read. As these little kids naturally selects
a leader to follow, whom splits the boys up into separate groups to work for
the good of this small civilization they got going. I really look forward to
reading more of this novel, and I think it is going to become a lot more interesting
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