Uncharted Books

So to start off this is a book I have read in high school, it is my favorite book from high school and I just read it again a couple days ago.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”

This book is so true to what happens in the world today. When people tried to govern themselves (and started the whole process with goodwill inside), but blinded with egotism and lust for power, tragedy and destruction in society are inevitable. Human nature is corrupt, it only takes a trivial thing to make its nature controlled by nothing but malice. This book represents a perfect allegory for humanity. Culture fails repeatedly and no matter how hard we can repress it, nothing will ever stop the drive to become savages.

This book is very much a teacher’s dream, with beautiful writing, good characters, lots of symbolism and underlying messages. I loved this book the first time I read and I still love it now. I would gladly teach this book in a classroom. It’s a fun and quick read for a book, on of the shorter ones I have read for my blog so far, and it is easy to teach because it basically a staple in high school english classes.