Lord+of+the+Flies

==Golding, W. (1954) //Lord of the Flies//. New York, New York: Penguin Books Ltd. ==

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This is a 196 page, simple reading novel with complex themes of death and destruction. It has a Lexile Level of 770. Students in high school are learning to separate from their parents and deciding what is important to them and how they might act on their own. This is a coming of age story with the parental figures taken entirely out of the picture. It highlights the complexities of human nature and shows animalistic tendencies not always present in novels. This novel could be introduced as a companion text for a biology course that deals with evolution. It could also be introduced in a social studies course during a war unit. =====