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, […]
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“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 […]
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 […]
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The Spire, published in 1964, is the fifth novel by William Golding, who is best known for his first – Lord of the Flies. A story that is quite rare; this is clearly not an event, a rushed book – about the obsession of the head priest of the church (Dean Jocelin) to add a […]