A fantasy is a singular- and singularly believable spellbinder, and
within the framework of its premises- achieves a tremendous impetus
and impact. During an atomic war, a group of boys aged from about
six to twelve crash-land on an uninhabited tropical island. There
Ralph, a responsible boy, is chosen chief- and a certain routine
established; a fire is made and to be kept going as a signal, huts
are to be built, and certain of the boys are to hunt wild pig?? But
as the days pass in increasing discomfort, there is increasing
dissension between them; the "littluns" are frightened by the
untold terrors of the dark, and the fear of breasties and bogeys
spreads; the duties are neglected; and the older boys, save Simon
and Piggy and Samneric (twins) desert Ralph, appoint a new leader,
and run amok hunting savagely. In their primitive regression, they
feel they must propitiate the beast and a ritualistic dance
precedes the murder of Simon; Piggy, his specs taken, falls to his
death; and finally Ralph is left to face the pack when a cruiser
lands- to rescue them all.... A first novel, originally conceived
and convincingly sustained, this should find an audience as
vulnerable as its young derelicts. The publishers parallel this-
not without justification- with Richard Hughes' High Wind In
Jamaica. (Kirkus Reviews)
Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.
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