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Lord of the Flies is a book that explores the depths of humanity, civility, denial, and survival instincts. What I love about this book is that the deeper message of it can be ignored. For those who don't understand the book, all they will know is that there are simply children who are violent and stuck on an island, which ultimately gives them a shallow experience. For those who understand the book know the intentions behind carefully placed details. That's the beautiful aspect of Lord of the Flies. Lord of the Flies is about how the people have a lack of control and responsibility when there isn’t a moral guide present. On this island, the children can do anything they want. The characters eventually do almost nothing (in chapter four except for Ralph, Simon, and Piggy), and because of that fear that they are helpless and will never be rescued, the children who favor Jack Merridew start to go insane. Instead of solving the problem, their anxiety goes out of control, and they blame it on something out of irrational fear—a beast. To try to bring denial to that fear, they make all sorts of excuses and assumptions to make that beast real, and they want power over their nothingness. To get that power when one is self destructive is to resort to violence. Jack acts as a symbol of desperation and destruction, taking the good out of people’s minds and plaguing them with an issue that covers up their inability to see the good because of their lack of governance. But when one refuses to be governed, will they change? No, they won’t, because governance is rejecting what they want from their hearts. But the heart is deceitful, and if one relies on their heart too much, they will eventually result in a disastrous mess of wants, but not needs. Violence and impulsivity can also act as an escape from reality. The children in Lord of the Flies all have a distorted perception of reality, if they know what reality is. Ralph, the main character, who was a chief, loses control, because he is too restrained. People want to follow what is freeing, what is thrilling, what feels good in the present---but never what is best for the long run. The government (Ralph and his friend Piggy) shuts down. What is good is labeled as pushing beliefs and being rude. No one wants to hear what is true. Boundaries become suffocating. Defiance and violence is freedom. That false sense of freedom becomes an obsession. obsessions lead to destruction. Jack Merridew is also a great example of why people with low self esteems but big egos reject advice. Anyone who wrongs Jack will die, because Jack does not like being wronged. He has a sort of drive to kill any animal he can get his hands on because he gets to control something that isn't himself. Lord of the flies is an exploration of the human heart and nature, and how quickly it can fall to falsity. So the beast that is mentioned in the book is the children themselves. Especially the savages (the children who eventually choose Jack as their chief). The beast was an illusion that messed with their minds. It was a spiral of inconsistencies that disproved what they didn't want to believe: They can't get saved. But of course, they get saved, because when the children all cry at the end, they realize that they've been in a cycle of an alter-ego that isn't really them.

This book has an tormenting horrible plot with unbearable characters. But the descriptive language was good...except the author really went too deep on minor things. And I was forced to read this. Every single page was a new obstacle course for me to read. Annoyance, disappointment, and disgust. Not one page contained a happy thing, or even any foreshadowing of good events. It was all bad, worse, and terrible. It's like my brain was being thrown across a bull fight stadium arena and it kept on smashing it into tiny little shredded pieces with blood on its face, laughing, then beating me to the remnants of a paper to analyze what was going on. This guy, Kino, murders four people, including his son. His son goes through suffering throughout the entire book, gets drugged, gets poisoned, Kino beats his wife and leaves her hanging on a rock at night and beats her up again for her telling him to throw away a pearl that is obviously destructing his life. Plus, he's a lunatic who has constant songs of "evil" or "family" or "greed" in his head and that is basically his root for how to make decisions. Not a lot lines up in the beginning to how the end ended. Kino is this guy who finds this pearl some random day and he thinks its his whole word. It's the most valuable thing ever and is worth "50,000 pesos" and thinks everyone hates him now that he has this. He tries to sell it but doesn't want a great deal of money, more than he has ever seen, so he sells if for as much as he wants, not as much as he needs. He basically acts like an imperious boss and shuts out every family member and eventually murders a guy at night. Kino turns insane and screams to his wife, Juana, "I AM A MAN. HUSH." and Juana believes in him! But because these guys burn down his house, he decides to bring his family to a desert mountain and that's where he beats his wife! And then he kills three men that are tracking him down and takes their rifle, but accidentally kills his own baby, Coyotito, and the kid's brain explodes into a gross morbid action scene. Coyotito has gone through suffering for nearly his entire life. He gets bit by a scorpion at night out of nowhere, he sleeps in a wooden box which is where the scorpion bites him, this doctor drugs him, Coyotito is still poisoned, and gets shot by his own crazy father who is obsessive over a pearl that is clay-like and honestly not that valuable according to experienced professionals in the book. The book wants you to think the Pearl is the issue, but it really is Kino himself. And the pearl, but mainly Kino. What was this. I was expecting Kino to throw the pearl out into the sea or at least sell it, but no, he becomes a lunatic and shouts that he is a man to pretend like he has everything in control but abuses everything he loves.