The novel Lord of the Flies, published in 1954 by English author William Golding, has been challenged in several school districts in the United States and Canada, with attempts to remove the book from school libraries or reading lists. Among the reasons cited have been the book’s use of profanity and racist terms and its depictions of sex and violence. The novel centers on a group of English schoolboys stranded on a remote Pacific island who try to govern themselves by establishing rules and roles in a place that has “No grownups!” Isolated from societal norms, the boys sink into savagery and moral decay.
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