Book review: Lord of the Flies

...Such an interesting story. For those of you who haven't read it yet, I will do my best to give nothing away (I won't do a very good job).
I enjoyed it immensely, though Golding leaves you with no hope. It's done, you don't have a choice, it's this way.
It's a powerful allegory, almost as powerful as The Crucible. It makes you stop and think about society: Does society throw evil upon man, or does man have evil in his heart?
This novel votes for the latter. It's a story that takes place during an atomic war, and a plane full of British schoolboys crashes on a small island. Only the boys survive. As they cope and organize themselves on the island, they quickly degrade and become savages, despite the fact that they are probably the world's highly civilized boys. Golding's piece of work illuminates his theory that evil lurks in every person's heart, and even the most sophisticated people can be degraded into savages.

I have to say: The scene with Simon looking at the pig head on a stick was incredibly realistic. I could vividly imagine poor Simon talking to it, trying to figure it out. And I also would like to add...Ralph was a most interesting character, and his statement did some lovely foreshadowing that sent chills down my spine: "I'm afraid of...the beast, too...but I'm afraid of us." (Probably not word-for-word, because I can't find it right at the moment...)