By Sean’nell Shelton Contributor
Lord of the Flies is a masterpiece of a novel and one that will always stick in my mind. I remember how hooked I was on the book, from the moment I read about Ralph meeting Piggy up to the moment in which the naval officer arrived and Ralph mourned for the lost of innocence. I remember how much the implied death of the mulberry birthmark boy haunted me up to the end of the book, despite him being a minor character, and how I cringed as I imagined his death. I remember how satisfied and fulfilled I felt once completing the novel and I remember how, almost immediately after completion, I flipped through Golding’s notes on the book. Lord of the Flies will always be a special book to me because of how real it represented society from back then and, even more so, society today.
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