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.