Review of the Flies

          In general I liked this book but if I was choosing to read a book for fun I would not choose this book. This book was very interesting and had many cool concepts in it but If I were to just read this book and not annotate or talk about it which I usually do, I would think of the book is about sick minded kids killing each other on the island. I would get some of the deeper concepts and meanings but not all would be present when reading this book. I am glad that I got to read this book in this class because it was like a book club for the book and I got more meaning from the reading when we came to class the next day and talked about the book. I really liked lot of the concepts in the book and how Golding was able to almost give the book different meanings. One of the concepts in the book I really liked was the body that represented history. I really liked this because when I read this chapter I didn't think of the body that way but when we came to class and talked about how the body represented history it was really clear that after taking another look at the text. "There was a sudden bright explosion and a corkscrew trail across the sky; then darkness again and stars." (Golding 96) This part is when the body first appears and reading this the first time I thought nothing of it but then I realized that it is like the big bang which is the beginning of history. I thought this was really cool but I also liked how there was basically a clock in the book telling you how long the boys have been on the island. "He would like to have a pair of scissors and cut his hair-he flung the mass back-cut his filthy hair right back to a half inch." (Golding 110) The way to tell how long the boys where on the island was small references to how long the boys hair is from the beginning. As the boys progress through the book Golding says things that reference that there hair is longer or there is a lot of hair now. I think this just shows how deep this book is that even for the time you have to look at the text and read it maybe twice to see what time it is.