{"id":1402145,"date":"2018-05-08T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1402145"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:30:10","slug":"every-chapter-in-lord-of-the-flies-summed-up-in-a-single-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/every-chapter-in-lord-of-the-flies-summed-up-in-a-single-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Chapter in <i>Lord of the Flies<\/i> Summed Up in a Single Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/feb28teacherswrongMAIN2_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of all the books you&#8217;ll have to read for school, <i>Lord of the Flies<\/i> is probably one of the most accessible. It&#8217;s not the most <i>fun<\/i>\u2014I&#8217;m not saying THAT\u2014but it&#8217;s a lot easier on the eyes than, say, <i>Beowulf<\/i>, which is 3,000 lines of total and complete (but alliterative!) nonsense.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Lord of the Flies<\/i>, on the other hand, is written in normal English, its themes are pretty easy to grapple with, and I think we can all get on board with the premise, which is essentially \u201cWhat if some boys on an island started murdering each other?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So <i>Lord of the Flies<\/i> is, all things considered, a pretty good read. But maybe you don&#8217;t have that kind of time. Maybe you need to know what happens in <i>Lord of the Flies<\/i>, and you need to know NOW. And since I can&#8217;t just beam the knowledge straight into your brain (we&#8217;re not there yet, science-wise), I&#8217;ll do the next best thing: summing up each chapter in a single sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the books you&#8217;ll have to read for school, Lord of the Flies is probably one of the most accessible. It&#8217;s not the most fun\u2014I&#8217;m not saying THAT\u2014but it&#8217;s a lot easier on the   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,628,2335,666,24675,23323,22146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402145"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}