Lord of the Flies - Shoulda Books VIDEO
Added 2025-01-27 19:48:21 +0000 UTCWelcome to Shoulda Books with Jonathan Kirk! A podcast for the book worms among you that will have a heavy focus on banned books and iconic literature. This accidently uploaded earlier with the wrong link. Thank you for your patience!
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Loved the episode! I apologize in advance; I have a lot of LOTF thoughts. I loved teaching LOTF to freshmen, because they can have so many conversations about theme, imagery, context, and authorial intent. Classes suggested that the island is a purgatory, that Simon is a Messiah character, or that the boys all represent different forms of government. Even though Golding had a clear purpose, there is lots of room for interpretation and nuance (and I got to have the colonialization bad conversation, which I enjoy). William Golding also HATED the very popular at the time books about British boys thriving on islands and fighting pirates (like The Coral Island). After WWII (where he also might have helped liberate a concentration camp), he returned to teaching at a prep school for boys. They must have been little monsters, because he figured his rich prep school boys would be horrible and kill each other, unlike the boys in The Coral Island, so he wrote LOTF. William Golding said he didn't include girls in the book for a few reasons. He thought it would change the dynamic (fair), didn't think girls would act that way because they were too smart (disagree) and also said he didn't want to write about the experience of girls, since he never was one (fair). He was also just incredibly jaded about human nature because of his time in WWII. even saying that the Holocaust could happen everywhere, not just Germany. He thoguth it just as easily could have happened in England Damselfly by Chandra Prasad is an amazing contemporary, mixed gender, mixed race retelling. Highly recommend! Justice for Piggy and Simon! Both movies are SO BAD, but the old one is a more faithful adaptation. And William Golding has a commentary track on it, which is fun.
Bailey Cavender
2025-02-27 05:41:29 +0000 UTCI’d love to hear you guys discuss Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler!
Madeline Stevens
2025-02-23 04:52:43 +0000 UTC
