The Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

The Author I am writing about is a British author known as William Golding. William Golding was born on September 17th, 1954 in the United Kingdom in a town called Newquay at his grandmother's house, at forty seven Mount Wise, Newquay, Cornwall. The house became referred to as Karenza, the Cornish language phrase for love, and he spent many early life vacations there.

He grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire, in which his father (Alec Golding) was a science master at Marlborough Grammar faculty. Alec Golding turned into a teacher at the college that William Golding and his elder brother Joseph attended. His mom, Mildred (Curnoe), became a campaigner for girls suffrage. William Golding's Cornish mother, whom he considered a superstitious Celt, used

In September 1953, after many rejections from different publishers, Golding despatched a manuscript to Faber & Faber and down and rejected after their readers took a look over his novel. However it was championed by Charles Monteith, a new editor on the firm. Monteith asked for a few changes to the text and the novel become published in September 1954 as Lord of the Flies. The book won him a Nobel Prize. His publishing success made it feasible for Golding to resign his teaching post at Bishop Wordsworth's school in 1961, and he spent that academic year inside the united states of america as writer-in-residence at Hollins university, close to Roanoke,

The book takes place in a unspecified nuclear war and in the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British airplane crashes on or near and remote island in the Pacific Ocean. The only survivors are a group of British schoolboys in their teen years or preadolescence. Two boy, the truthful haired Ralph, and an overweight, bespectacled boy nicknamed "Piggy" find a shell, which Ralph uses as a horn to bring all the survivors to one area of the island. Ralph is optimistic, believing that the United States of America will come to rescue them however Piggy realizes that they need to become more organized. Ralph appears liable for bringing all of the survivors together, he right away instructs a few rules over the opposite boys and is quickly elected their "leader". He no longer needs the votes of the singers, led by Jack Merridew, although he permits the singers to shape a separate clique of hunters. Ralph establishes 3 rules which are : to have a laugh, to continue to survie, and to continuously hold a smoke signal that would alert passing ships to their presence on the island and as a result rescue them. the boys establish a shape of democracy with the aid of maintaining that whoever holds the conch shall additionally be able to speak at their formal gatherings and receive the silence of the larger group.