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The irony of the man-hunt smoke to flush out Ralph being the thing that saves them all is extremely staggering.

Suzanne Collins said that this book was a big influence on her and I can definitely see that. This was kind of a great one to read after THG.

I have so many thoughts that I don’t think I could even attempt to write them all down.

Maybe this was just me but I think the perception of LotF is like “how could these young schoolboys do this to each other?” when really the whole point of the book is that these young schoolboys literally represent human nature and mirror REAL ADULT thinking and behavior.

I had a lot to say before Simon died but here is what I will say now: Ralph is civility, Piggy is intelligence, Simon is rationality, and Jack is something primal. And violent.

NOOOOOOO

Me googling “can epileptics hallucinate?”

“Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person.”

“Simon felt a perilous necessity to speak; but to speak in assembly was a terrible thing to him. ‘Maybe there is a beast. I don’t know. But… What I mean is… maybe it’s only us. We could be sort of…’ Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.”

I like Simon.

“Passions beat about Simon on the mountaintop with awful wings.”

This is my first ‘girls would never do that to each other in this situation’ moment.

Ralph sucks.

Also bring back tables of contents.