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.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
I think I found a site that can help you. Scroll down to Pro-Censorship links.
Did I just do your homework for you? Posted by Pelegius (Member # 7868) on :
Thanks for your help, but none of these sites have anything to say about Lord of the Flies.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
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.
Posted by Pelegius (Member # 7868) on :
thank you, that is one of a very few combanations I havn't tried.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
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.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
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
Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
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.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
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.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
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. Posted by Pelegius (Member # 7868) on :
Thank You, I have finished now. By all means keep discusing the book though, not that you'd stop if I told you to.
Posted by lucy hummer (Member # 7740) on :
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.
Posted by AC (Member # 7909) on :
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.
Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :
That's probably the only movie I have ever gladly stopped watching half-way through.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
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.
Posted by Damien (Member # 5611) on :
quote:Originally posted by Portabello:
quote:Lord of the Flies was one of the few books that I enjoyed reading in school.
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