Back in 8th grade English, under the watchful eye of Laura Sharpless, I willfully failed to read William Golding's "Lord of the ... said the head." Keen thinking, pig's-head-on-a-stick!

According to Google search engines, over the past 20 years, “Lord of the Flies” has been ... Most of us have never worshipped a pig’s head, and fewer still are eager to be lectured about ...

Regardless, it was a cheerier cover than the one I remembered from our bookshelf as a child, which was white and featured a grim image of a pig’s head ... included Lord of the Flies in a list ...

Lord of the Flies is a brilliantly written book; but its message has a lot to do with human nature, and the nature of animals. Golding’s flies cluster around the head of a pig that the hunters ...