Wow that was a crazy book. WOW that was a crazy book. In a good way, I guess...
Well now I finally understand why so many people/books make so many references to it. It's so.... Crazy. I guess that's the only way to really explain it. It sucked you in, despite having being wrote in that unfortunate time where words were plentiful. But it still manages to make sense. I had to re read some paragraphs, but that was more because the ideas were put forth in a confusing way. And the parts I re read were always gruesome and unbelievable. Unbelievable. Almost ever second of that book I wanted to scream at them to "listen to Piggy" or "THAT IS A PERSON, NOT A PIG!!" because they got mixed up sometimes.
No, that's not funny. At all. Really. I shouldn't have made that joke because now you think that the book was light hearted and crap.
No.
It wasn't.
It was horrible..............
(in context, not like, quality)
THAT BOOK WAS CRAZY.
Actual summery: (also found in title of the moment gadget)
Lord of the flies............... Well the first thing you should(n't) know is that it starts off with a school of boys getting stranded on an island. Nah, they don't have any of the normal, cliche problems. There's a fresh water stream, and tons of fruit and fish. And pigs too, but that's a different, scarier story that has a different, scarier ending. It just so happens that about halfway through the book that is the story it becomes. If you didn't get that, The story has a freaky, scary ending.
Back to the beginning. They elect the boy Ralph to be their leader for no other reason but that he suggested that there should be one and no one wanted Jack, the leader of the choir to be chief.
Before things even get bad, the choir is like a little cult. They respond to Jack imeadietly and are like his little army. Jack goes crazy trying to prove to Ralph that he can kill a pig. When he let the fire and consequently smoke go out during an obsessive hunt, the lines are drawn and both boys know that the other hates them for having power. On top of all this, the whole littlun (little one) community is scared of a mysterious beast, and the fright of this creature is getting to the older boys as well.
What happens after totally sucks- over the course if the rest of the book Jack goes so crazy over finding and killing the beast he runs off and starts his own savage tribe, which, to Ralph and his unofficial adviser Piggy is the worst thing possible. Now there is only four big kids left - and really only three because of Piggy's broken glasses and ass-mar (asthma.) and now all that's left for the savages to do is kill. Thinking they are killing the beast they kill... Well.... A person.
This does nothing to stop them or slow them down. They kill another. Then swear to hunt down Ralph.
And they do.
DRAMATIC PAUSE.
Don't you want to know if he gets killed? Don't you want to know if he ever gets rescued? Or goes crazy? Or joins the tribe?
In this astonishing book by William Golding, young boys are given a chance to survive on their own beyond society. No adults. No adult thinking. No real rules. And above all, no punishments.
I think it's pretty straight-forward. Sometimes the fact that you can't do anything (like in 13 Reasons) is annoying. But Fahrenheit 451 is very confusing- the sentences are waaaayyy too complicated.
ReplyDeleteFahrenheit 451 is awesome, but it's confusing also. What's hard to realize is that actually it's a pretty short story- it's not overly developed or anything. But it still made sense to me. The only part I kinda struggled with was the very very beginning, after the girl left. That was kinda confusing/boring. But once you got into it (as it always is with classics) it was really awesome.
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