Lord of the flies.

[VxDx]

It's a really terrible book. It's like he tried to hammer the idea of a microcosm into the reader with a mallot. OK. WE GET IT. THE KIDS ACT LIKE SOCIETY. GREAT JOB WITH SUBTLETY THERE.

[HAHAHA123]

there is also of movie the Lord of the Flies i think its kinda the same that the kids crash on an island go crazy and kill each other

[jewpinthethird]

Yes, that is what the story is about.

Some key Ideas:
The "Lord of the Flies" (the Decapitated Pig's Head) says to Simon something along the lines of "I am the beast in everyone" or something like that. In other words "the beast" is that of the primative nature that lies in every human being. It is the natural instinct of Kill or be killed in a sense. It is a savage instinct.

The beasty is a dead parachuter that got was shot down during a dog fight. The world of LOTF was at war during the same time as the children on the island were.

The fat kid (piggy) is the voice of reason. Jared (or whoever the main kid is, I forgot the name) is the voice of democracy, the other kid with the red hair (the evil one) the voice of a totalarian society. The little children are the genereal population.

I'll look for the essay I wrote on this a year ago.

[makaveli121212]

ralph and jack jewpin

[VxDx]

That's exactly my point. It's so blatently obvious what the symbolism is that he even goes so far as to say that the "lord of the flies" is the beast in everyone. There's no subtlety at all in that story, which, I guess, is why it's tought in early high school.

[Privateer]

Master_of_PARANOiA, you say you can read 360 pages at a rate of less than 10 seconds per page? Unless you have those palm-swipe readers they advertise on HSN, you better do the math before you lie.

[VxDx]

I can read (and I mean read every word and undertand) about a page a minute on a fast book and about a page every 2 minutes on a very slow one.

[makaveli121212]

I can read (and I mean read every word and undertand) about a page a minute on a fast book and about a page every 2 minutes on a very slow one.

whopdiefreakindo

lord of the flies is like a 4th grade book

[VxDx]

I was just saying that Master of Paranoia didn't read it in 10 minutes.

[makaveli121212]

I was just saying that Master of Paranoia didn't read it in 10 minutes.

how does you reading at a certain rate have anything to do with how fast someone else reads

[VxDx]

Well, are you saying you believe that he read it in 10 minutes?

[makaveli121212]

well are you gonna bypass my question

[VxDx]

that's not an answer, it's just what you do when you know you are arguing a moot point. So, are you going to bypass my question?

[makaveli121212]

no i wont...do i think the book can be read in 10 minutes...certainly, guiness records says it can be done...do i think paranoia did it...no of course not...i never was even arguing that...i simply asked what your rate of reading has to do with anyone elses...i think you look at everything on these forums as an arguement somehow

[VxDx]

Or maybe I was showing that I, an average reader, read a page every 1-2 minutes, whereas Paranoia claims to read at less than 10 seconds per page. That seems to me, to prove that he was most likely lying. Besides, I'm not the one who made an issue out of what I said, that was you. So, I thik that you look at everything on these forums as an arguement... BIATCH!!!