“Well, mark h, I'm not sure this is the only message of this book.
(I've read it when I was a pupil in France)
Thus, I can't deny the fact that it can be interpreted as an hymn to the adulthood(!), but I prefer to consider it as a simple adventure book, and it is in any case worse than the cruel tales children are told from the very beginning of their life (not thinking of the "W.Disney(c)'s versions" of these tales, of course)!
"Lord of the Flies" may deal with matters like domination, basic (yes) social interactions, but this reading may be of some use to the children who wouldn't have thought about these subjects from that point of view, which is an interesting and original one, I think.”
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