The novel Lord of the Flies is a very interesting book, which contains many messages in it.
The author of this book is William Golding, who was born in Cornwell in 1911, and his first novel Lord .
of the Flies was published in 1954. .
The novel is written in the third person perspective, an omniscient author. The Lord of the .
Flies takes place on an island during World War ±. .
Also, the main characters are Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon. Ralph is a fair-headed boy of .
about 12 years of age. He is interested in doing things in the "proper?ways. He wants to keep the .
fire going and for people to work hard. Jack is about 12 years old and is very strong. He seems to be .
very domineering towards the end of the book, which is his true personality. Although we never find .
out Piggy's real name, Piggy is a fat boy with asthma and very bad vision. He sees life scientifically, .
and can't understand why people fight. Moreover, a small, shy boy of about 8 years of age, Simon is .
almost like a Christ figure in the book. He communicates with the devil the Lord of the flies? and .
sees things with great perception. He recognizes early the fact that there is no beast, and that the .
boys are simply afraid of the unknown beast that is inside each of them.
During the war, a plane carrying a group of British school boys is shot down over the pacific. .
The pilot of the plane is killed, but many of the young boys survive at the crash and find the .
themselves deserted on an inhabited island, where they are without adults'supervision.
The boys choose Ralph over Jack as their chief and Ralph blows a conch shell to make the other .
boys to gather together. He also claims that the boys have to build a fire on the mountain to signal .
their presence to any passing ships and they use Piggy's glasses to start the fire. While Ralph .
orchestrates the building of shelters for the boys, Jack tries to hunt pigs.
One day, a child called Phil tells how he had a night mare about a thing that was moving .
