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William Golding took students on a field trip to Figsbury Rings and separated them into two groups: one to attack the fort, and one to defend it. He was shocked at the experiment.

8 Things About LORD OF THE FLIES You Didn't Learn In High School

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LOTF is a response to books that paint British boys as angelic

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"Most book censorship revolves around the moral issue of what is appropriate for minors to read and how much power parents should have in determining which books are goof or bad for their children..."

Counterpoint: Book Censorship can be Justified in Some Cases

Christina Healey & Tracey M. DiLascio

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Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl had appeared on banned book lists "because it was considered too depressing for children to read."

Counterpoint: Book Censorship can be Justified in Some Cases

Christina Healey & Tracey M. DiLascio

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"The use of racial slurs in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, for example, has been criticized by members of the Black American community."

Counterpoint: Book Censorship can be Justified in Some Cases

Christina Healey & Tracey M. DiLascio

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"...there are mixed accounts of how effective a teacher he was. He was clearly more interested in his writing..."

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"Censorship of books should not be about silencing voices on important topics, such as race and racism, but about steering young people toward the best possible literature..."

Counterpoint: Book Censorship can be Justified in Some Cases

Christina Healey & Tracey M. DiLascio

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"he encouraged students to take opposing, extreme position to see what would happen. He admitted in a lecture to introducing a 'certain measure of experimental science' in his teaching."

8 Things About LORD OF THE FLIES You Didn't Learn In High School - Danika Ellis

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"We can argue about separating art from the artist, but if this book is being taught as a sweeping generalization about the nature of human beings..."

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"Books are powerful instruments. They can be used to educate, to inculcate values and transmit ideology, and to stimulate the imagination. They can instruct in civic virtues or contain instructions to build a bomb. Can reading a book directly harm a young person?"

Counterpoint: Book Censorship can be Justified in Some Cases

Christina Healey & Tracey M. DiLascio

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"I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been" - William Golding

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"Can reading a book directly harm a young person? Certainly pornography and other such materials dehumanize and objectify their subjects and may encourage violence, especially against women and children."

Counterpoint: Book Censorship can be Justified in Some Cases

Christina Healey & Tracey M. DiLascio

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The author's psychological experiments with his classes at Bishop Wordsworth's school, in Salisbury, caused his eyes "to come out like organ stops", according to his private journal.

He divided pupils into gangs, with one attacking a prehistoric camp and the other defending it.

In the process, Simon, Ralph, Piggy and the other characters in Lord of the Flies may have been born.

Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, private papers show

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questionable books be moved to the adult section of the library

Counterpoint: Book Censorship can be Justified in Some Cases

Christina Healey & Tracey M. DiLascio

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In 1965, six boys from Tonga ran away from boarding school using a fishing boat and got shipwrecked and stranded for more than a year.

8 Things About LORD OF THE FLIES You Didn't Learn In High School

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Racial Slurs

More recent versions of "Lord of the Flies" have modified some of the language in the book, but the novel originally used racist terms, particularly when referring to Black people. A committee of the Toronto, Canada Board of Education ruled on June 23, 1988, that the novel is "racist and recommended that it be removed from all schools" after parents objected to the book's use of racial profanity, saying that the novel denigrated Black people, according to the ALA.

Why Is 'Lord of the Flies' Challenged and Banned?

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"I believe one of the biggest reasons this book is challenged and banned is the violence and the fact that many people claim this book is very anti-authoritarian and promotes anarchy and disobedience. In the book, Jack and his group try to take away the power from Ralph and create their own group. Some could argue that this could inspire children to revolt against their parents or teachers because they do not agree with what they believe in."

Racism, Sex, & Violence: The Controversy of Lord of the Flies

Samuel Bridge

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September 17, 1954 British publishing company Faber and Faber LTD published Lord of the Flies, by English author William Golding

Racism, Sex, & Violence: The Controversy of Lord of the Flies

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Certain school districts in states such as Texas, Arizon and Florida have banned the book.

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"This book has been challenged and banned numerous times in different parts of the United States. The book was challenged in a school district in Dallas, Texas in 1974, in a South Dakota high school in 1981, and also at a high school in North Carolina because it was “demoralizing inasmuch in that it implies that man is little more than an animal.” It was also challenged in Texas for its “excessive violence and bad language.” The Toronto Board of Education tried to have it removed from schools because of a reference to the word “niggers” and other insults towards African Americans. Schools in Iowa and in Florida both tried to ban the book because of “lurid passages about sex,” and also because of, “statements defamatory to minorities, God, women, and the disabled.”"

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"One of the arguments is that the book contains racism. When the boys crash they still act very civil and normal by society’s view, but as time goes on the boys start to become savages who start painting their faces, dancing around a fire, performing rituals and sacrifices, and other actions that some might view as racist against primitive tribes of people. There is also a time in the book where piggy says to the other boys, “Which is better? To be a pack of painted niggers like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is?” This quote upset the black community who then went to the Toronto Board of Education and tried to have the book banned for being racist. Other groups have tried to have the book banned for its violence, depictions of murder, and the book’s profanity."

Racism, Sex, & Violence: The Controversy of Lord of the Flies

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"the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, and old knife blade and much determination."

8 Things About LORD OF THE FLIES You DIdn't Learn In High School

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In Lord of the Flies – a novel about a group of young boys stranded on an island – William Golding asks “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”

Golding’s story is essentially a thought experiment about human nature. Fascinating as it is, hopefully it will always remain a thought experiment. Leaving a group of children on an island and seeing how it pans out will never be ethically acceptable.

An impossible, unethical experiment, but fascinating all the same

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"if you land with a group of little boys, they are most like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be." - William Golding

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According to the American Library Association, it is the eighth-most frequently banned and challenged book in the nation. Parents, school administrators and other critics have decried the language and violence in the novel. Bullying is rampant throughout the book—indeed, it is one of the main plot lines.

Why Is 'Lord of the Flies' Challenged and Banned?

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The Plot

In "Lord of the Flies," a plane crash during a wartime evacuation leaves a group of middle school boys stranded on an island. The plot may sound simple, but the story slowly degenerates into a savage survival-of-the-fittest tale, with the boys brutalizing, hunting and even killing some of their own.

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Despite attempts to ban the book, "Lord of the Flies" remains popular. In 2013, a first-edition—signed by the author—even sold for nearly $20,000.

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Bans and Challenges

The overall theme of the book has led to many challenges and outright bans over the years... The book was challenged at Owen High School in North Carolina in 1981, for example, because it was "demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more than an animal," according to The Los Angeles Times. The novel was challenged at the Olney, Texas, Independent School District in 1984 because of "excessive violence and bad language," the ALA states. The association also notes that the book was challenged in Waterloo, Iowa schools in 1992 because of profanity, lurid passages about sex, and statements defamatory to minorities, God, women, and the disabled.

Why Is 'Lord of the Flies' Challenged and Banned?

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"Lord of the Flies," a 1954 novel by William Golding, has been banned from schools over the years and has often been challenged. According to the American Library Association, it is the eighth-most frequently banned and challenged book in the nation. Parents, school administrators and other critics have decried the language and violence in the novel. Bullying is rampant throughout the book—indeed, it is one of the main plot lines. Many people also think that the book promotes a pro-slavery ideology, which they note is the wrong message to teach children.

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Lord of the Flies author's memoir describes how attempted attack happened while he was on holiday during studies at Oxford university

The Nobel laureate Sir William Golding, whose novel Lord of the Flies turned notions of childhood innocence on their head, admitted in private papers that he had tried to rape a 15-year-old girl during his teenage years, it emerged today.

Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, private papers show

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Golding's papers also described how he had experimented, while a teacher at a public school, with setting boys against one another in the manner of Lord of the Flies, which tells the story of young air crash survivors on a desert island during a nuclear war.

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John Carey, the emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford university, was given access to a personal journal kept by Golding – who carefully guarded personal information during his life – for 20 years.

The book also draws on an unpublished memoir written by Golding for his wife, Ann, who died in 1995 and is buried beside him at Salisbury, Wiltshire.

The couple were married for 54 years, and Golding felt the honesty of his account would explain what he described as the "monstrous" side of his character.

The memoir, entitled Men and Women Now, makes no attempt to hide the author's regular dependence on drink to fight his demons.

Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, private papers show

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The attempted rape involved a Marlborough girl, named Dora, who had taken piano lessons with Golding. It happened when he was 18 and on holiday during his first year at Oxford.

Carey quotes the memoir as partially excusing the attempted rape on the grounds that Dora was "depraved by nature" and, at 14, was "already sexy as an ape".

It reveals that Golding told his wife he had been sure the girl "wanted heavy sex". She fought him off and ran away as he stood there shouting: "I'm not going to hurt you," the memoir said.

Two years later, the pair met again and had sex in a field, with Golding again introducing crudity by quoting the girl's foreplay remark: "Should I have all that rammed up my guts?"

Author William Golding tried to rape teenager, private papers show

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/20/lord-of-the-flies-is-surely-fit-for-the-queen