Why was the book Lord of the Flies banned?
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding was challenged at the Duval County, Florida public school libraries (1992) because of profanity, lurid passages about sex and statements defamatory to minorities, God, women and the disabled. It was challenged, but retained on the ninth-grade accelerated English reading list in Bloomfield, New York (2000). Lord of the Flies was a thinly-veiled indictment against the Christian Church. It wanted to show that religion was not really a civilizing factor. As proof, the religious group of boys are the ones who turn their little paradise into hell by introducing superstition, and then violence based on supposed “rightness”. It is the religious boys, not the public school boys, who create the conditions for havoc and cruelty. So basically it was banned because of the violence. I actually thought it was a great book but some kids might not be ready for it and maybe other parents feel it delivers a misleading message to their kids.
