Parker Lunn

Great poem and I memorized it and say itt all the time

The book Lord of the flies by William Golding is about this group of school boys whose plane gets shot out while they are escaping the atomic war going on around them. They're placed on an island where they have to make up laws and get their society built up. This book I think is a christian book because the character, Simon, represents the Lord's son, Jesus. This character Simon likes to be alone, says some of the more wise things on this island filled with sin. Such as “there might not be a beast, but the beast could be us”, but sadly no one listens to Simon besides getting mocked as Jesus did when he preached in the roman cities. Simons fight this so-called beast, aka the Lord Of The Flies (The devil), through a pig’s head pierced on a stick. This part of the book I thought represented how Jesus lasted in the desert for Forty days and Forty nights, without food and water. Simon later on in this book tries to calm down the tribal, savage acts that the boys on the island have done, by telling them that the twins (Sam & Eric) have mistaken this so-called beast as a pilot, and these wings were the parachute of this abandoned pilot corpse, but when Simon goes to tell the boys that they have mistaken the beast for the pilot, to calm down this terror on the island, it doesn't work because the boys are doing this tribal dance shouting “Kill the Beast! Cut His Throat! Spill His Blood!” The boys mistake Simon as the beast, and surround him ripping his body apart like they were wild animals, leaving his mangled corpse on the beach. Only a few boys realize what they have done, regret it instantly, and lose their innocence of being a child. The people that realized what they had done were very dear to Simon, but they fell upon the chanting mob of the enemy tribe which allowed them to go savage, murderous, tribalistic, satanic to their own friend Simon. The reason why these horrific acts happen is because of the lack of enforcing and making laws, the reason why we have a government is to keep the bad from entering our bodies or to limit the amount of cruelness of the human mind. Because of sin, the human mind normally focuses on what is wrong and what is right, but normally man falls for what is wrong and they do this either to get an easier outcome or to hurt the feelings of the other. Sadly this book represents what would happen without a government and the state of nature of a man with a lack of support, but through children who had to go through something I hope and wish would never happen to me or to anyone else, to go through the feeling of murder and the fact of being scared or the loss of innocence to these children. So I would have to give this book a solid rating of 9/10, and would re-read this book later on in my life, but would become sad when the grim, dark, evilistic, non-antediluvian people go mentally unstable.