Topic > Reflecting on a year of rigorous literary studies

Lord of the Flies is about a boat boy attending the Academy who was shipwrecked and washed up on the shore of an island once they arrive on the island they discover that it seems be that there is no one and the only adult accompanying them is seriously injured. the boys then line up assign the captain and decide that they have to defend themselves, they build a ship or a plane or a helicopter that passes by so that they can be saved, however over time the boys become backup and a group of boys get tired of the ways of the captain and decide to claim their game and become hunters throughout the story, the boys slowly turn against each other and end up killing 3 characters at the end of the tour, remaining with a boy who was the captain is not been killed, yet she runs away hunters while trying to burn him from the forest as he runs comes to the shore where he finds himself on an adult, and the book ends. While this novel is not for everyone, it shows what power can do to someone and how without a society of rules madness occurs. Even though this novel made me cry, it is still by far my favorite high school novel