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Information on //Lord Of The Flies//
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Background Info of Author (William Golding)
 * Golding was born on September 19, 1911 and died June 19, 1993 at the age of 81.
 * He was an English writer who was most famous for his novel //Lord of the Flies//.
 * He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983
 * At his death Golding left behind volumes of daily journals, recording his innermost thoughts and trying out all kinds of ideas
 * For more info about the author visit [|http://www.william-golding.co.uk/_] .

Genre  Speculative fiction

Setting of story The story takes place during an unspecified nuclear war. The story also takes place on a deserted tropical island where the boys thrive to stay alive and civilize themselves.

Brief summary of story A Group of young teens are in a plane crash and are forced to unite and survive. The boys swim to an island and regroup and elect a boy Ralph to be the leader of the “tribe”. Ralph tries to keep order and rules by using a conch to keep order. Ralph is civil and a natural born leader he has much respect from the boys. Ralph is about discipline and order and finding the will to survive. They try to make a fire with Piggy’s glasses so they can signal someone incase they come to rescue them. They wind up not being able to control the fire and some of the island gets burned down. Ralph assigns jobs to everybody little shores like to gather fruit and firewood. Other jobs are to fish and go hunting. Another boy Jack is jealous of Ralphs leadership position and he thinks that hunting pigs is the most important thing. Jack is sick of Ralphs rules and he thinks that they are outlandish. Jack leaves the tribe and tells anyone else on the everyone if they want to join them that they can and Ralph starts his own “tribe”. Many of the kids decide to leave Ralph and go with Jack. Piggy stays with Ralph because Jack disrespects Piggy jacks tribe has no order no rules and no respect for anyone else on the island. Jacks tribe encounters Ralph and Piggy and the two get into an argument and Jacks tribe drops a boulder on Piggy and kills him. Soon after that a naval officer and appears and rescues the kids.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Round and flat character analysis

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Round **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ralph **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: he is the civilized leader, he also is the one that finds and blows the conch shell. He tries to organize everyone and and tells them to build shelter and make a signal fire. In the end, he is the only one left standing that did not turn savage. He is the protagonist and would be considered a round character.

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> he becomes the leader of the hunters. He was jealous of Ralph and does not like him. Eventually he breaks off into his own group and is the leader of this savage tribe. He gets others to join him. Jack would be considered the antagonist and a round character.

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Piggy: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> He is the first person Ralph meets. He is overweight, has glasses, and has asthma. He was always picked on even though he was the smartest one one the island. Piggy was the only one that stayed loyal to Ralph and did not turn savage. He is a round character.

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simon: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> He was not really a hunter and often helped Ralph more than Jack. Simon tried to find out what the “beast” was. He went up to the mountains to try and find the truth about the “beast.” And when he did find out the truth, something terrible happened to him. He is a round character.

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Roger: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> He was Jack’s right-hand man once he broke off from Ralph and made his own group. He was the most bloodthirsty and cruel boy on the island. .

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flat **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Percival **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**-** He is one of the smallest kids in the island. Throughout the story he tells jokes, making the other boys more comfortable while living on the island.

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maurice- **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> While the hunters are singing a “ Kill the pig” chant, he was pretending to be a pig while the other boys pretended to slaughter him.

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sam and Eric **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- They are twins that were the only boys to stay with Ralph and Piggy after the others split up with Jack’s tribe. (Left to Right)Jack Ralph Piggy Simon Roger

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Themes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Survival of the fittest**- The kids had to kill things and do stuff that they don't normally do, in order to survive

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Teamwork is essential**- The children must stick together to survive. Although they split up into two groups, each group still had each other to help them survive in the wilderness

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Favorite quotes with explanations


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.'"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- William Golding, //Lord of the Flies//, (Golding 27) this quote is significant to the story because at the beginning there are rules and everyone follows them but when jack decides to disobey and wanted to become the leader. Jack get everyone to become a savage and soon everyone starts anarchy.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"'Maybe there isn't a beast....maybe it's only us.'"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- William Golding, //Lord of the Flies//, (Golding 98) this quote is significant to the book because throughout the whole book they think there is a beast on the island that is trying to hunt them but then you realize that the beast that is going to kill them is each other. They are going crazy there are no rules and organization.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Literary terms (e.g., symbols, motifs, internal/external conflicts, climax, resolution, etc., ) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Symbol__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond its literal level.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The L//ord of the Flies// was a symbol because it was a sacrifice to “the beast”

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Internal Conflicts__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Problem with a character and himself something internal that other people don’t have.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Piggy is insecure because everyone always picks on him and calls him a “fatass”.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__External Conflict__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- A problem between two characters.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack and Ralph have two very different views on problems and always fight on how to solve it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Climax__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-The moment in a book when the plot reaches its most intensity.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the group splits and Jack is turning into a savage.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Resolution__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- The result or ending of a sequence of events.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A naval officer comes and finds them on the island after Piggy had just been killed

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connections to other books/real life/movies/tv <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This book has a survival of the fittest theme so it connects with a lot of other books, movies, and real life situations. For example, the tv series Lost. Like //Lord of the Flies// is a story of people stranded on a tropical island due to the crash of an airplane. In both stories the characters are forced to become savages due to the conditions in which they are living.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Recommendation

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We would recommend this book to all readers. It is a great novel for people who love action and survival stories. Along with the novel there are two movies of //Lord of the Flies//. This is a great way to connect the book to the movies and visualize it in different ways.

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Watch both movies here! ** =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="youtube" key="FE2RL3fupms" height="315" width="420"Old Version(1963)media type="youtube" key="X7ffCWSTNYM?list=PLFED56D800379AD1B" height="315" width="560"New Version(1990) =