A good book to read

Hello everyone ! 
I'm going to present you a book I read and I really liked ; that's classical literature, so I think that plenty of you have already read this book, but anyway, I am going to talk about Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding.

     After an air plane crash, a group of boys land on a small tropical island, only populated by wild pigs, with no adult around. As they are on their own, the boys have to come up with solutions to survive as a group, as if they were young Robinson Crusoes. But quickly, tensions raise between the boys, and two clans get formed, leading to a kind of "civil war". The book shows how the boys at a loose end, lost, terrified, struggle to get organised, and how fear lack of authority and the thirst for power can lead to terrible ends.

     In this book, I liked the fact that there is no "before" nor "after" ; the reader knows almost nothing about the boys' lives, about how they got on the island (we only understand that there was an air plane crash, but it's not clearly mentioned), and the narrative ends on the island. The omniscient point of view made me feel like I wasn't part of the boys, but I was around them, noting what they were doing and unable to prevent anything from happening. I think it makes the narrative sound like a collection of facts rather than a moral lesson.

     The book is full of many characters who have a specific point of view on the situation, which increase the tensions. Two rival clans are formed, based on different values, making different survival choices : Ralph, nominated to be chief, thinks the most important thing is to make smoke signals so that they have a chance of being rescued, while his enemy, Jack, leader of another group, gets obsessed with hunting wild pigs. The most intelligent and diplomatic person is a clumsy boy nicknamed Piggy, who never gets listened to. Along the reading, I could feel the despair and the loneliness of the boys, who, failing to cohabit and build a livable and pacific society, fall into insanity.

You'll understand this picture only if you read the book !

     You will absolutely love reading this book, because of the diversity of the characters, the thrilling and sometimes nightmarish atmosphere and the beautiful descriptions. The level of horror that I felt while reading, never stops rising until the last chapter, making the book unputdownable. I think the length of the book is perfect : longer would have been too hard (mentally), and shorter would have been a bit flat. It isn't written in a very modern language as it was written in 1954, but it's quite easy to read, and the beauty in writing, and horror in the facts of this book are breath-taking.

I hope I've interested you in reading this book !

 Gabrielle