Novel Analysis: Setting William Golding was influenced to begin his novel by Paradise Lost, with angels falling from heaven due to a celestial war, Golding conveys the general idea of war and chaos in Lord of the Flies as the plane is struck down in the middle of a nuclear war. As further reminder throughout the story the author creates miniscule metaphors of cracking fire, trees exploding due to the immense heat intended to symbolize the ongoing atomic war which “preceded it” (“Lord of the Flies”). Golding manufactures his own Coral Island a reference to Ballantyne novel using the scene of a group of boys stranded in a island which happens to contain an immense amount of pink colored surroundings such as the pink mountains, pink