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Pelegius
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I have been trying to find organazations that are oposed to teaching Lord of the Flies in school. I have googled it under many diferent searchwords, but I can't find any. I know they most be out there, as it is frequently chalanged. Any help would be greatly apreciated.

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Valentine014
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I think I found a site that can help you. Scroll down to Pro-Censorship links.

Did I just do your homework for you? [Wink]

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Pelegius
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Thanks for your help, but none of these sites have anything to say about Lord of the Flies.

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Bob_Scopatz
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Pelegius.

My google-fu says that if you type the following search into that most lauded of search engines, you will be rewarded:

"Lord of the Flies" "School Board"

The quotation marks are important.

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Pelegius
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thank you, that is one of a very few combanations I havn't tried.

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Jonathan Howard
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We just did LotF. I don't see why 9th grade can't study the book... And I got to report on the symbol of blood.

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James Tiberius Kirk
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Lord of the Flies was one of the few books that I enjoyed reading in school. I think that the censorship had more to do with it being violent than anything else.

--j_k

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Portabello
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Lord of the Flies was one of the few books that I enjoyed reading in school.

Same here.

I also enjoyed Dante's Inferno and Beckett.

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Kwea
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Also, the main premise of LotF is that we are all savages, and that our civilized ways are merely a thin veneer covering savage impulses.

This does not sit well with school boards.

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Kwea
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I just did a rudimentary google search, using this:

"Censorship, lord of the flies"

and I got this list of topics first try..and I even spelled lord wrong asa typo, too.

I don't know how you searched, if you did at all, but obviously your google-fu needs some work. [Wink]

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Pelegius
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Thank You, I have finished now. By all means keep discusing the book though, not that you'd stop if I told you to.

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lucy hummer
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I just found out my cousin's high school read Clockwork Orange, my mom found this a bit weird (she was in high school when it was written, but read it in college as an english major). My cousin didn't get to see the movie though.

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AC
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Of all the times I have seen movies made of books that I have read, I think A Clockwork Orange was the best adaptation. On a totally separate note, that was the first movie I ever saw that I wanted to immediately rewatch from the beginning.

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gnixing
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That's probably the only movie I have ever gladly stopped watching half-way through.

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Goody Scrivener
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I couldn't get through the book until I watched the movie version. I don't know if it was the language (i.e. the slang terms used) or exactly what my mental block was, but the movie unlocked something for me.

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Damien
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quote:
Originally posted by Portabello:

quote:
Lord of the Flies was one of the few books that I enjoyed reading in school.
Same here.

I also enjoyed Dante's Inferno and Beckett.

Ditto for D. :}

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