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A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of school boys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a more murderous, savage significance.
 * Lord of the Flies**
 * By Sir William Golding**
 * Blurb **

The "Lord of the Flies" is a classic novel written by William Golding. William Golding was born in 1911 in Newquay in England. He worked as a novel, play and poem writer, he also won the Nobel Prize in literature for his novel "Lord of the Flies". He was also awarded the booker prize in literature for his novel "Rites of Passage". He was married in 1939 to Ann Brookfield who was an analytic chemist, they had two children, Judith and David. William Golding was also part of the British Navy, he joined in 1940. During World War II, William Golding fought on board a Navy destroyer, he was involved in the chase and sinking of a German battleship. He was also involved in the Normandy landing on D-Day, he commanded a landing ship that fired rockets onto the shores. William Golding died on 19th of June 1993 of heart failure.
 * About the Author **


 * Character list**
 * Ralph - **One of the only boys who sees the need to keep the fire going, he is a kind boy who is voted chief and tries to set up a way where evryone does work so they can have a chain of command until they are rescued.
 * Jack - **Jack is the leader of the choir and is immediately trying to undermine Ralph as soon as Ralph is voted chief. Jack is leader of the hunters until he breaks away from the main group and tries to create his own rival hunting tribe.
 * Simon - **Simon is a kind boy who does what he is told but otherwise keeps to himself, he is the one to discover what the beast really is. He understands that the beast is not something they could hunt and kill but the beast is inside everyone of them and it is going to tear them apart.
 * Piggy - **Piggy is the one who Ralph first finds on the island, he is smart and always makes the right choice. But Piggy's word is only heard by Ralph as Jack is always undermining Piggy and stopping the ideas that could help them from being heard.
 * Roger - **Roger is one of Jacks right hand men, at the start of the book Roger doesn't do a lot apart from scare the littluns, and destroy their sandcastles but as the story goes on you start to see how brutal he is.
 * Sam and Eric - **Sam and Eric are twins and are never apart, in the book they are called samneric. All their jobs/shifts are always done together.



1. The beast isn't actually real, it is the darkness and fear inside all of them. 2. Simon is the one to discover what the beast actually is before he is circled by the others and killed. 3. The Lord of the Flies is the pigs head on the stake, Simon named it that because of all of the flies. 4. Would kids ever be able to run their own society without adult help? 5. Does anyone else other than Simon know what the beast truly is?
 * 5 Facts and/or interesting questions.**

1. Why do you want to be chief? Because I would be better, all Ralph does is worry about the stupid fire and conch.
 * 5 Question interview with Jack**

2. How would you be a better chief? I would get more meat for the tribe.

3. Why did you hate Piggy so much? Because he didn't do any work, he sat next to Ralph where he didn't have to work.

4. Why were you trying to kill Ralph? Because he wasn't a part of the tribe and he came to my side of the island.

5. At the start you and Ralph were friends, why did that friendship not last? Because all he wanted to do was keep the fire going, but we need meat, so I took everyone and went hunting.

It took me about 5-6 days to finish the book, the parts that I liked in the book were the parts where there was action for example when Ralph is being chased at the end and when Simon is killed, otherwise it was a pretty boring book. There were some parts that made no sense when it was happening, I only found out what actually happened later in the book, like when simon was talking to the Lord of the Flies. The best bits for me were when there was action and something to grab you.