... across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely a gleaming white skull-as white as the conch shell, he notes. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake it was impaled on to use as a weapon against Jack. That night, Ralph sneaks down to the camp at the Castle Rock and finds Sam and ... , he worked briefly as a theater actor and director, wrote poetry, and then became a schoolteacher. In 1940, a year after England entered World War II, Golding joined the Royal Navy, where he served in command of a rocket-launcher and participated in the invasi...

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... at age seven, but ended up studying science at Brasenose College, Oxford. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy as commander of a rocket ship. During the war, he experienced firsthand man's inner savagery. After the war, he was left to ponder the hideous atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. Eventually, the war destroyed his faith in humanity itself. ("William Golding (1911-1993), http://www ... book The Lord of the Flies come largely from the Cold War era. For nearly 50 years after World War II, the U.S.S.R. and the United States engaged in a race for arms supremacy. These ye...

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