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Study Guide for “Lord of the Flies”
Study Guide for “Lord of the Flies”
- The book was written in reaction to another novel published in 1857 by Robert Michael Ballantyne, “The Coral Island.” The circumstances take an exact opposite turn in “Lord of the Flies”.
- The younger children are the first to note and make fun of a strange “beastie” (Chapter 2) on the island and the older boys. It turned out, in the end, that some of the older boys were the creatures that everybody hated.
- Simon is also the one who has the nickname “Lord of the Flies” to the pig’s head fixed on the stick.
- How many boys were on the island in Lord of the Flies is not obvious. Piggy and Simon, two of them, fell prey to the brutality of the predators and died.
- The vocabulary of the book, which makes it much more believable, has an excess of teenage slang. Littluns is the younger kids: they talk and cry. Littluns (Chapter 3); and “biguns” were called by the older boys.
- The role of society, the dignity of the human spirit, and the confusion of ideals are the major “Lord of the Flies” themes. This text serves as an exemplary source of essays on friendship, the complicated task of being a young man, public order, and the mind’s reactions to difficult situations.
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