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I enjoyed the symbolism as well, though it's another one of those books that reading in school ruins, though most would never read it if it wasn't required in most schools.
I loved the 'Piggy's death' scene in the American film. The boulder actually bounced off of his head like a beachball.
I like it when Piggy falls off the cliff.
I did this for English Lit aswell.
I personally didn't enjoy it, Golding seems to think there is no hope for mankind whatsoever, lawl.
I only saw the first half of the movie, and that was the black and white English one.
I can't remember why I didn't see the second half.
But then again I don't really care.
I'm currently reading it for my grade 10 class. I really like it, yeah it's sad. but it shows an interesting story and way of showing what happens in situations like that. Lord of the Flies > Peter Pan's way of young boys being stranded alone on an island
poor Piggy :cry:
The book was alright, had to read it last year for English. The color movie was very funny though. Especially when Piggy got hit by the rock (which seemed to bounce off of his head lol) and then he fell down about two seconds later. So the book was ok, not great but ok. The movie was just horrible though.
I have this wierd thing that anything read at school becomes bad. So, lord of the flies reminds me of school, therefore I hate it.
EDIT: Although I did love the simpsons version!
i had to do it for english as well lol!? well mid through the book i found it boring so i went for chapter summaries and movie adaptations...but i did feel sorry for piggy though!
It was a good book, I thought. A little dry, but good. And the working of symbolism was *gorgeously* done. Prolific, but gorgeous.
However, I disagree with the author on principles. His beliefs in the natural evil inherent in human beings.... no, I just thing he's wrong. Mark Twain was more my belief system- humans are innately good, we just get twisted around by society into doing evil things for "good" reasons fed to us by our culture.