Lord Of The Flies

Today post is dedicated to a book-film review. The title is "Lord Of The Flies", and it is one of the most interesting and extraordinary book I've ever read. No wonder why in english speaking countries, at high school, teachers make read it as a mandatory choice. It's enlighting and it keeps, deep inside, a dire warning.
Some people say the book is pessimistic, in my opinion, it transcends pessimism, it simply swims into the crude and wild reality. Every element in it is perfect, the location, the age of the kids, probably the cruelest age in our lives, 8 ~ 16 years old, an age in which we're supposed to absorb the culture and education from the society, from our families. It has the perfect climax, this book is, as a novel, a perfect handbook of sociology, touching so many aspects of it.
The book seemed to appeal to adolescents' natural skepticism about the allegedly humane values of adult society. It also captured the keen interest of their instructors in debating the merits and defects of different characters and the hunting down of literary sources and deeper symbolic or allegorical meanings in the story—all of which were in no short supply. Did the ending of the story represent the victory of civilization over savagery, or vice versa? Was the tragic hero of the tale Piggy, Simon, or Ralph? 
 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0878917543/002-6253358-0616029?v=glance

THE MOVIE

 
The movie I've chosen is the 1995 version, it was a wednesday afternoon of exactly 5 years ago when I've seen it, I was in the Mediateca of my University and I had it on my mind for a week, buzzing and always coming back to my thoughts like a mosquito.
By all means, it has probably the best ending ever! End, that I'm not going to tell here. ^_^
I'm going to leave you with a couple of quotes, both maybe inherent to this book:
 
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
     Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
     Isaac Asimov