Who has read Lord Of The Flies, what is it about?

I tried reading it a long time ago. I didn’t understand it. If anyone asked me what Lord Of the Flies was about, I would say a human king leading a large group of flies. These flies are the ones that plan on taking over the world, by using the West Nile Virus. ha ha ha ha XD

You too,my 1st period teacher is getting us to read that,I think it’s good but looking at the title sounded like she ran out of options on books to check out.

the story lord of the flies is a story of a group of boys being stranded on a island without any adults. the island is a microism of the world and the boys are the people and lord of teh flies is about how the darkness in teh boys hearts starts to flourish without the rules and morales of society and how the break down into a beast like state.

Yes, austin has a good answer. It’s a classic book, and I’m sad to see that some of the people answering here had difficulty undersanding it. Really, it’s an exciting but very depressing story, not hard to read at all.

The title comes from the Bible: the Canaanite god Beelzebub was known, among other things, as ‘lord of the flies’.

it’s about a group of boys who are on a plan which crashes on a tropical island. no adults are there, so they take control. they split up and war breaks out between the two groups. the boy who tries to stop the fighting is killed and at the end a rescue crew arrives and takes them home. it’s meant to show the primeval nature in all of us and the panic that ensues when there is a lack of authority.