Lord of the Flies Is a symbolic novel by Nobel Prize laureate William Golding. The novel discusses how man-made culture fails, using the example of a group of British boys stranded on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, but disastrous results occur. Second Edition 2000 Dar Al Masriya Al Lubnaniya Part One: 230 pages Part Two: 192 pages "And here on the other side of the island, the view was completely different. The delicate, enchanting mirage leaves could not withstand the cold ocean waters; therefore, the horizon was fixed and encircled in intense blue. Ralph wandered down towards the rocks, and here in the shallow places, almost at sea level, you could follow with your eyes the regular, continuous passage of waves in the deep sea... Ralph began to follow the waves, wave after wave, and follow the rise and fall until his mind became numb and he lost sensation due to the presence of those infinite distances stretching across the sea. Then, these almost infinite waters gradually imposed themselves on his attention. This immense volume of water was the separator and the barrier between them and their homeland. On the other side of the island, surrounded by mirage at noon, and protected by the shield of the calm lagoon, one might dream of saving his life, but here, when one faces the savage, obtuse angle of the ocean and miles of separation, he feels tied and bound to the island, helpless, condemned, and doomed, and..." Lord of the Flies is an enjoyable story that brings much pleasure and suspense to the reader. Its events take place in a jungle, and its protagonists are plane crash survivors in that remote region. The surviving plane passengers eventually get to know the jungle inhabitants, and events unfold shrouded in paradoxes that reflect the psyches of the novel's characters. Thus, the author takes the reader to those beautiful fictional worlds reminiscent of jungle heroes, harmonizing through wonderfully described scenes that move within the author's narratives, stirring the reader's emotions and imagination to proceed with the novel to the point of the end, which coincides with the end of the events after a rescuer is found for these lost souls on that remote island. Golding describes the basic idea on which his novel is based by saying that its theme is an attempt to trace the shortcomings and flaws of society and attribute them to the flaws of human nature. The moral is that the form or system of society should depend on the moral nature of the individual, not on the political system, no matter how logical or outwardly respectable it may seem. The entire story is symbolic in nature, except for the rescue scene at the end of the novel, where the lives of the young people appear glorious, honorable, capable, and brilliant, but in reality, they are entangled in the same evils, like the symbolic life of the children on the island. The officer who prevented the hunting of a human and began preparing to transport the children from the island to his warship will immediately set sail to hunt his human enemy in the same merciless or compassionate way. And who will save the young person and his warship?.. It should be noted that Golding's novel is one of the works that won the Nobel Prize.