I read the book over the last night, THE LORD OF FLIES which was written by William Golding. When was it? I watched the movie on TV in class when I was 10 years old. Well, remembering that, I was so young and I was so shocked that time, even though I can’t remember the movie in detail until I got the book by chance. The story line is very simple. The boys got into an accident in flight and made an emergency landing on some island. There is a hero, Ralph. He became the “leader” of the boys gaining their trust. All the boys followed the rules and orders from the leader, having hope that they would be rescued by adults. However, as time went by, they were losing hope for a rescue. In the mean time, the boy named “JACK” opposed to the leader, Ralph, with constant objections. A tension between JACK and Ralph had come to them. The boys were put on the line that they had to choose the leader. The rumor that a monster lived in the island flew around the boys. Fear got intense. Jack made his group and broke away from the boys by using the situation. Simon who was considered as the “CRAZY BOY” found out the truth the monster was in fact the body of a soldier. (Fear made their eyes blind.) So, he tried to let them know the truth, but he was finally murdered by JACK’s family. JACK’s madness and violence got deep again and again, the Ralph’s family ran away from them. But, the advisor of boys who was fat and shy but also wise and honest, Piggy (His name is “Piggy” in the story.) was murdered by JACK. In the end, Ralph became alone and he tried to do a final escape from them. After all, at the moment everything seemed to be ended up, he was rescued by PEOPLE and the boys were rescued as well. The story is finished like this. Even though the story seems to be very simple, there are a lot of symbolic meanings in the book and I think it shows us our cruel reality. These things are the greatest points of this novel.

One thing I feel missing is that the characters of the novel are all “BOYS”. I think, to describe human’s society, the author might want to limit the sex of the characters as male. But, “What if there were GIRLS in the story?” I am thinking and thinking….
Well, he might want to exclude the sex of female with special intention. But I think he made a mistake to twist the human’s whole aspects. But, with the specialty that it is an adventure novel and to be able to symbolize the time of the war, he might need to emphasize the sex of male. So, I won’t feel the want anymore. I searched ‘The Lord of Flies’ through the internet and I found out it means like an EVIL. So, the lord of flies means the human’s true evil character. Well… Actually I felt a creepy feeling about the title at first. Did he have the ethical view that humans are born evil? I don’t know.

Anyway, with the harsh criticism and the ridicule for human society in his novel,
I want to clap my hands to his wonderful idea and writing skills.
At the end of the story, the reason why Ralph cried so sad might be that he felt he lost their purity and innocence. It’s now the time we need to cry for Ralph.