To be a classic or to not be a classic? That is the question.

Is the Lord of the Flies considered a classic? In my opinion, Lord of the Flies is a classic book, not only because of its timelessness but because of the lesson it teaches us. In the very end of the book, the naval officer who is coming to rescue the boys asks if they are playing games while they were actually out on a savage hunt searching for blood. This truly makes the boys open their eyes to how silly all their games have been. They ave killed two people and why? To get their tribe more "pride"? Because they got carried away in the hunt for pigs? The entirety of the fighting seems like utter foolishness when they decide to loo outside of the bubble that is their island. This is a great lesson for all people in high school, or any close knot group of people. Open your eyes and look outside your own problems and they will look like foolishness looking from the outside in.

Because the boys were stranded on a deserted island, this book is also timeless. No matter how advanced technology is, if you get trapped on an uninhabited island, all that technology will be gone and you will be faced with the exact same issues people one hundred years earlier would have been faced with.

Lord of the Flies -- Post 5 (pgs. 169-202)

Summary: At this point int he book essentially the entire group of boys has gone crazy, turning into power hungry, menacing savages. Ralph, Piggy, & Samneric are the only four boys remaining int he original clan. Piggy's glasses have been stolen and now that he had been rendered practically blind, they decided to go get them back. As they venture over to the other side of the cliff into the new clan's land they sense some serious hostility. The other boys do not want them to be there and do not respect them at all. The moment they mention that they want Piggy's glasses back everyone goes nuts. Roger begins to launch rocks towards the four boys. The final rock he heaves at the boys smashes into Piggy, crumbling the conch shell in his hands and launching him into the water, dead. They then go after Samneric, grabbing them, throwing them to the ground, and tying them up.

Lord of the Flies -- Post 4 (pgs. 124-168)

Summary: Ralph was beginning to take advantage of his power and make living on the island all about getting rescued, not at all about fin like he had promised at the beginning. Jack, another clear leader of the group,, decided to break off and form his new group with him as chief. Most of the group followed him and were very happy their first night. A couple of the hunters headed out and came back with a pig they had killed. It was a feast with a lot of singing and cheerful fun, until a storm rolled around.

Lord of the Flies -- Post 3 (pgs. 95-123)

Summary: Fear is starting to creep over the entire community of abandoned boys. In the meeting preceding this section, a little boy brings up the things he has been seeing and hearing at night. A group of hunters decide to go out and either disprove the beast's existence or kill it. The head out and climb to the only part of the island they had not explore yet, the castle. They arrive and have no luck in finding any traces of the so-called beast. They then travel back to camp and inform everyone of the discovery. With more suspicious sightings and noises, however, they decide to head out again, leaving Piggy behind to watch over the younger children. They are out on their journey when it gets very late and they decide to stay out overnight. Ralph, Jack, and Roger stay near the location of the fire and camp there overnight. In the middle of the darkness, they see something swell and cover the rocks resting above them. They decide to go up and examine them.

Lord of the Flies -- Post 2 (pgs. 48 - 94)

Summary: At the beginning of the next chapter, Ralph spots a large boat off in the distance. He was ecstatic about it because he believed the fire they had consistently been burning would notify the crew that they were there. The fire, however, had been put out. Ralph ran to the location of the fire and discovered Jack and his buddies chanting about a pig they had managed to hunt down and kill, Ralph was furious about it because the fire could have been their way out but, no one was there managing it therefore causing the ship to sail away.

Lord of the Flies -- Post 1 (pgs. 1-47)

Summary: The book opens to two strange boys who appear to be stranded on a tropical island. One boy is described as more attractive and named Ralph, the other is pudgier and has asthma; he is introduced as Piggy. The two boys find a conch shell and Ralph blows into it, creating a noise that the whole island could hear. Following the noise, boys start appearing out of the bushes, all wearing similar uniforms.