Reading Focus Tracker

     Religion is all over Lord of The Flies. One of the most significant things in the book actually was hidden in plain sight. The fact that the book is "Lord" of the flies took me about 3 chapters of reading to realize. I should've known this was going to be in my opinion the biggest focus Goulding had in this book the instant I read that title for the first time. This is obviously significant because the title is key to getting people to read your work and give people ideas of what your book about.
      Another religious moment is in the middle of the book. The narrator describes the Lord of the Flies as "the sleeping leviathan" (105).  Not many people know about the leviathan, but this is the most interesting chapter of the Bible to me. In Job 41, It talks about a huge creature that couldn't be tamed called the Leviathan. You should consider reading it. A third religious hint Goulding lays is soon after the Leviathan reference. It states "The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or hunt. Kill the pig! Cut his Throat! Kill the Pig! Bash him in!" (114). This doesn't have do to with a specific religion, but it deals with general religion. This quote sets the scene like the killing of this pig is a ritual instead of just killing it a pig. The sacrificial aspect of this scene gives it a religious allusion that I think is fairly hard to detect.