“The Hunger Games” Hoopla is in full swing and the closer it gets to the March 23 opening, the more hoopla you will hear. With the “Hunger Games” movie coming out soon, the books are flying off the shelves, with those just discovering the series or those who want to finish the saga before the ...
The Spire, published in 1964, is the fifth novel authored by author William Golding, who is by far best known for his first–Lord of the Flies. The story–which is pretty sparse; this is decidedly not an eventful, fast-paced book–concerns the obsession of the head priest of a church (Dean Jocelin) to have a monstrously large ...
Piggy is an important character in William Golding’s Lord of The Flies. The novel follows a group of boys who crash land on a deserted island. At first, they believe island life is a game; they believe that they will be rescued and will soon return to their normal lives. The reality of the situation, ...
The ticket seller nods at you as you walk past the lines at the gate, displaying your pass. Because you are one of the first there, you are able to pick a good seat that allows you a perfect view of the screen. You pull out your notebook and make a few small notations. Then ...
William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, challenges the ideas concerning human nature offered by Jean Jaques Rousseau in his “Dissertation on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind”. The novel begins with a plane crash. His characters, innocent schoolboys, are left stranded on a remote desert island. The crash is a clever ...
Lord of the Flies is a story about a group of young British boys that must survive on a deserted island after crash landing into it during the thick of the Cold War. William Golding does a great job of taking us deep into the heart of man where reason and instinct battle against each ...