Why lord of the flies should be banned

Peter Seda      Class 812

No one wants to read a book about people killing each other, especially if its 12 year old boys.  Lord of the flies by William Golding should be banned because of the dark killing, sexual content, and graphic language and scenes.  This book has been challenged by many school libraries for many reasons.

There was two deaths in the book that were both caused by murder, one was Simon and the other one was piggy.  Simon was killed because he thought the lord of the flies (the mother pig) couldn't really talk.  The nine year old, Simon, came out of the woods and told his group of people that the lord of the fly couldn't actually talk.  All the kids charged at him with their spears.  they started stabbing him yelling “Kill the Sow, Spill the blood!”.  this part really showed how ruthless this book can be because oh how young Simon was and how easily he was killed.  They also killed piggy who was only trying to stop the killing, but the kids wanted no part in it.  They threw rocks at him nailing him in the head sending him 40 feet off a cliff killing him.  This is two huge examples of ruthless killing over peace and reality that two young boys just wanted to help.  “It was considered “inappropriate reading” in a Marana, Arizona, high school in 1983 and a year later challenged in the Olney, Texas, Independent School District for “excessive violence and bad language” states the banned books awareness

This book also had sexual content in the book.  Many parents don't want their children being introduced to sexual content by other people.  in the beginning of the book the author states talks about piggy blowing on the conch and with Ralph replying with “Why don't you blow on this?” as he holds his groan, but that's not even the worst part.  In chapter eight the kids kill and torture a mother sow.  All the boys jumped on the sow.  Many articles believe that the boys were torturing her in a sexual way, because there were no girls on the island so this is the only thing they got.  Rodger also said “Stick it up the ass” which he did do with his spear as the mother sow squealed with pain.  This caused many problems with schools because it was rape

Another Huge thing in this book was the graphic scenes the kids encountered.  "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee: the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. Piggy fell 40 feet and landed on his back across the the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pigs after it has been killed"(Golding 181).  This moment in the book really set a deep dark image in everyone head.  The thought of piggy falling and smashing his head open really made many people think how insane these kids have become.  the kids also sang around the pig when they were trying to kill it yelling "Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood. Bash her in." These are two good examples on how these kids were blood thirsty.

In all the killing, rape, and graphic scenes shouldn't be in a book that is meant for kids to read, because it can cause kids to do bad things and think they are ok to do, for example rape animals or kill other people.  This book should be taken off of libraries in every school.