Lord of the flies reflection
Lord of the flies reflectionCompare and Contrast Essay : Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies demonstrates a very subtle yet important message, mostly about the way that humans can turn almost any situation into an evil one. The novel is fully based on attempting to understand this message. Unfortunately the movie for various reasons does not do the novel justice in the plot and detail department.
The novel is chock full of details and mind indulging plot twists. But the movie not only leaves these out but it also forgets to include or changed essential fragments of the story. One of these elements was the nationality of the boys who are stranded on the island. In the novel the boys are British yet in the movie they are American. This not only affected appearance such as clothing and accents, but also the way that the boys acted reflected the different cultures that they had grown up in and was different in each version. An example of this if how they thought of the army, in the novel they mentioned links to world war 2, yet in the movie they only spoke of the army as someone who would save them and war was never really mentioned.
Also a different change from the novel to the movie was the time setting between the two. In the novel the estimated time was the 1940's, and the boys reflected this by starting off on the island as good school children that had respect for their elders, etc.
In the movie the time frame was anywhere from the late...
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