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20336619 No.20336619 [Reply] [Original]

The Lord of the flies was inside us all along

>> No.20336746

>>20336619
>and as they left that crazy island behind, Jack looked at the sailor who was in charge of looking after them. He needed to tell someone about what he saw. Even if he knew no one would believe him.
>"You won't believe me," he said to the sailor, who looked at him confused, "you won't believe what we saw there, on that god forsaken island whose name I dare not speak."
>"What did you saw there?" The sailor inquired, his voice as disbelieving as Jack expected it to be.
>"The Lord of the Flies."
>"Ah, me and my lads have saw it many times, too, on many places. At first it was scary but then we came to understand it, and now we feel nothing about it: it's simply something that exists, and if in the past it had any effect on us whatsoever, now it has none. Much like when we first see the sea we're overwhelmed by it, but then when we see the sea again, it's just something that exists: like the air, like the animals, like a woman's vagina; something that simply exists."
>"Yes?"
>"Yes. We have saw the Lord of the Flies so many times that now we know what it really is."
>"And what would that be, ye olde sea dog?"
>"The real lord of the flies, says I and my lads. are the friends we made a long the way, and all the crazy times we had."
>THE END

Bravo, Goulding, really deserving of your nobel prize. Really powerful.

>> No.20336750
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TURNS OUT THE GAME CHANGE WAS THE FRIENDS WE MADE ALONG THE WAY

not kidding, literally how it ends

>> No.20336760
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>>20336619
what was the point of the dead parachuter? was it to prove the adults had their own problems to solve and couldn't save them? was it to show that the lord of the flies is also the cause of war? and that adults also act like a bunch of kids?

>> No.20337115

It's a simple story with a simple message, but one that I like very much.

>> No.20337141

>>20336619
i dropped it in the middle
Hated its prose.

>> No.20337160

>>20336619
I heard this was the Attack on Titan of English literature. Is there anything to that? I'm ESL so I haven't read much English

>> No.20337378

>>20337160
Kinda. It's brutal but not that brutal, but you get the feeling it would've gone there towards the end

>> No.20338958

>>20336760
Adults pretend to be above children because of experience to prove them right. We aren't all that different than who we were as children.

>> No.20338981
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>>20336619
It's a good book and a good reference

>> No.20339476

>>20337141
>Hated its prose.
Who cares about the prose?

>> No.20339494

>>20339476
Me.
I don't care about symbols, plot and all this shit. All I care for is prose.
Beautiful language, great use of words, beauty, peak beauty. I want prose. And this book has shitty prose. It's shit. I do not like shit. I like beauty.

>> No.20339612

>>20339494
hmmmmmmm..............
that's cringe

>> No.20339645

Was Golding Jewish?

>> No.20340269

>>20339494
>when you're too dumb to read poetry

>> No.20340926

>>20336619
>Author's worst book is his best selling and most famous
Any other authors for this feel?

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>>20336619
perhaps the real Lord of the Flies were the friends they killed along the way

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>>20339494
>I don't care about symbols, plot and all this shit

>> No.20341503
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>>20339494
>I don't care about symbols, plot and all this shit

>> No.20342296

>>20336619
more like inside the pig am I right

>> No.20343096

>>20336619
I found an interesting real life equivalent.
https://youtu.be/bCePbRdQmbE

>> No.20343135

>>20339494
The book is written from a child's perspective, children don't have the life experience for colorful language

>> No.20343153

>>20336619
I GOT THE CONCH

>> No.20343903

>>20336619
Not it isn’t.