Brillantes Society scenario, packed in exploitativem robe

I have read Lord of the Flies in English and have to say it was anything but easy to understand as. Peppered with typical British expressions and written in English in a writing style of the 50's I had occasional difficulty understanding everything (and I studier the crap !!), but ultimately these were minor.

A group of children, aged 6-12, stranded after a plane crash on a deserted island without adults. Soon a leader is chosen, which is to ensure the survival and organize the rescue. This boy is the 12-year-old Ralph, a slender, handsome Burscher, which is in the heart of a born leader. A group of choirboys, especially the egomaniacal Jack, however, denounce the role of Ralph as leader to soon. Are formed little groups and the situation escalates ...

At Ralph's side is the chubby, maddening, bespectacled Piggy, who seems to be the only boy on the island, however, has the greater intellectual abilities. While Ralph and Piggy always act as a voice of reason and consider it the most important thing, first to build huts and always keep a fire burning to draw attention to themselves when a ship passes, Jack does not think much of these measures. He is a born fighter and for him the important thing is to go hunting pigs, so meat is available.

Ralph is at the beginning of the story, a conch, a kind of shell that it uses for convening general meetings in which will be discussed how to proceed. Ralph is also the one who sets up rules, since it is convinced that it can only be saved by means of rules and discipline. So is one of the rules that only one allowed to talk, holding the conch in his hands.

Jack, who has Ralph envied the role of the leader from the beginning, is always egocentric and his jealousy transforms itself soon in hatred. Hatred Ralph. He retreats into the woods. Soon the others follow him, it seems too tempting every night to celebrate and eat fried pork to wear without any responsibility.

Ever changing the whole scenario of "ideal world" in despair. In the beginning the children are happy that it far and wide is no adult and to swim in the lagoon, collect fruit and enjoying life. No one really adheres to Ralphs instructions. One thinks that one is somehow saved and everything runs by itself.

I would compare the book with less BATTLE ROYALE, but rather with the experiment. Finally, here, in Lord of the Flies a development is needed before the children brutalized and become savages. Having joined Jack, they are nothing else, expressed visually through their war paint and sharpened spears. A psychological brutalization took place, piece by piece. Who is not prepared to Jacks 'tribe', as he calls it to conclude, is captured, killed or hunted.

At the end is still left Ralph and is hunted by humans, children who have become emotionless hunters to primitives, ready to kill Ralph, ahead of Jack's egotism and unbridled hatred.

The little children are of little use in the organization of everyday life and they are the ones who make Ralph soon aware that a beast on the island live. First, there are only nightmares, but soon they claim to have actually seen a beast. Ralph and Jack set out to search. At this time they are still united ...

The book revolves around the animalistic side of man, the depravity of human values ​​until nothing's left. The "Lord of the Flies", an impaled pig's head, acts as a devil, as a symbol of what is going on on the island in front of him, as Jack rips the leader role per se. In a wonderfully surreal scene says the head to Simon, one of the boys standing on Ralph's side, and said: "You knew, did not you I'm part of you Close, close, close I'm the.?! Reason Why it's no go? Why Tings are what They are? "

Golding himself describes his book as follows:

"The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is indeed the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not of any political system HOWEVER apparently logical or respectable. The whole book is symbolic in nature ... "

Individuals, who individual personalities, how they think and act, so do not forget the world and not established rules and systems. The problem of the company is therefore, if people are going in this society something evil to do, then it will happen, unless there are other individuals, who take the mind.

Although towards the end of a knotless SURVIVING THE GAME - Theme is, the book is far from being a pure adventure story, but a parable of our times and a mirror of our society. The end itself, I would like but do not reveal at this point, I guess, that everyone wants to find out for yourself.

I do not know if it's written like tricky in German, but it adheres but definitely in the frame and I can only put this book to every reader to my heart!

I found it very interesting, fun and challenging at the same course. It is also with about 200 pages (in English) quite manageable.