Lord of the Fliesin a sentence
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Golding wrote Lord of the Flies after reading a novel, The Coral Island that he thought unrealistically portrayed how boys would respond if trapped on an island.
Lord of the Flies = William Golding's acclaimed novel novel of boys stranded on an island who, without civilizing influences, sink into savagery (1955)
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- I loved The Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, and especially A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.† (source)
- "Come now," said the Lord of the Flies.† (source)
- Lord of the Flies?† (source)
- And this had caused another memory to resurface: finishing William Golding's Lord of the Flies at the age of twelve on a hot summer day, going to the refrigerator for a cold glass of lemonade …. and then suddenly changing direction and speeding up from an amble to an all-out bolt which had ended in the bathroom.† (source)
- Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.† (source)
- He pronounced that we'd understood Lord of the Flies perfectly.† (source)
- —William Golding, Lord of the Flies† (source)
- I read Lord of the Flies.† (source)
- Two hundred women, no phones, no washing machines, no hair dryers—it was like Lord of the Flies on estrogen.† (source)
- Visible discomfort, on an issue like this, brings a Lord of the Flies response: haze it out of him.† (source)
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- Like this blue parachute that comes down in Lord of the Flies.† (source)
- The Lord of the Flies spoke in the voice of a schoolmaster.† (source)
- She nods at my copy of Lord of the Flies.† (source)
- "You are a silly little boy," said the Lord of the Flies, "just an ignorant, silly little boy."† (source)
- "—Or else," said the Lord of the Flies, "we shall do you?"† (source)
- I'm on my couch, still mired in Lord of the Flies.† (source)
- His eyes could not break away and the Lord of the Flies hung in space before him.† (source)
- The Lord of the Flies was expanding like a balloon.† (source)
- "Well then," said the Lord of the Flies, "you'd better run off and play with the others."† (source)
- The Lord of the Flies hung on his stick like a black ball.† (source)
- "Don't you agree?" said the Lord of the Flies.† (source)
- The whole middle school had read this book called Lord of the Flies, where all these kids get marooned on an island and go psycho.† (source)
- They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.† (source)
- Olly: lord of the flies, macabre, black, stealing silverware, my sister† (source)
- LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING† (source)
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