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戰爭爆發。一群孩子搭乘飛機避難，不料途中卻遭到攻擊，迫降在無人的荒島。所幸美麗的珊瑚礁島猶如世外桃源，孩子們在這裡一面等待救援，一面想辦法建立秩序和滿足生活的需要。但隨著時間推移，孩子們的秩序漸漸散漫，衝突日益加劇，更讓人不安的是，白天如同樂園的小島，每當黑夜降臨，就變了個樣貌，黑漆漆的樹林裡彷彿有什麼東西潛伏著，伺機而動。不斷加深的恐懼侵蝕著孩子的心，直到有一天，他們辛苦建立起來的文明世界徹底崩壞……
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「蒼蠅王」即「蒼蠅之王」，源自希伯來語「Ba’alzevuv」；在《聖經》中，「Baal」被當作「萬惡之首」；在英語中，「蒼蠅王」是糞便和汙物之王，因此也是醜惡的同義詞。高汀以此命名是為了表達獸性戰勝人性的道德主題；故事中的孩子害怕莫須有的怪物，但其實怪物就在人心，是人把樂園變成了屠場。
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I did not finish the book but I simply could not continue. I love classics, dont get me wrong, but the characters did not act their age, nor were the descriptions of the environment effective. I picked up this book several times this week to read it I just could not get passed those details.
I went into this book with a pretty negative outlook on it, but I enjoyed it more than I expected. It was nothing like what I expected. I feel like boys who enjoyed Hatchett on sixth grade might like it. It reminds me a bit of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, or even the lost boys from Peter Pan, but with a deeper meaning than those comparisons. I feel like high school girls who are required to read this books are less likely to get into it, which automatically made it lose a star. Sometimes I wonder why we still require students to read "the ckassics" because I feel like it turns then off from reading, but I see some redeeming value in this one. Glad I read this one along with my two seniors!
Group project with no teacher and it goes exactly how you’d expect.