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The question that I chose is “How is this novel related to Christianity?”
This novel implies many lessons, and what I see is that it is related to Christianity in many different ways. First thing is that the evil and the good appear in the story and the devil makes the boys crazy. The boys become crazy because of the devil, they are afraid of it. But Simon, who is like Jesus, sacrificed himself to find the truth what the real beast is. Eventually he does, but he gets killed by the beast, the boys. Like what happened to Jesus, he was trying to tell the truth but he is killed by the people who were like devil. So this part in the novel relates to what happened to Jesus. Other thing is that the theme of the novel relates to Christianity. People living in these days forget about God very easily because of the false society. They only try to seek for their own good, which will lead them to hardships. Like in the story the boys only looked for authority, but at last they became failure. So people should follow God’s words and keep in mind as they live in the society. All humans have some evilness in their mind, so God created us with the abilities to fight against the evil. I don’t know if Golding was Christian or not, this novel seems to me that it includes many good lessons that relates to the bible lessons.
2 comments:
Creative thinking! I could not think we could relate this story to the Christianity. I think this book shows a lot about our real world. I didn't really think the boys became crazy because of their fear because they became wild before they got up with beast idea, but nice though! I think it could be one of the reasons.
I was surprised that you said Simon is like a Jesus. Simon was a only pure 'good' boy.
I enjoyed reading your creative thought!:-D
That was a great way to analyze this complicated book! You're right. This book does reflect on how the life of Christ was. People tend to defend themselves from strange and new things. It's hard for humans to accept something that they are not used to. A part of that reason is fear to realize what they are doing is wrong.
Jesus knew what would become of himself but still didn't hesitate to bring us the truth. I agree with you on that. -^-
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