Lord of the Flies by William Golding
             William Golding: was born in the beginning of the 20th century and grew up in the years before World War II. That war changed thinking about man's essential nature. You can see the influence of this shift in thinking in Golding's works.
             Golding yearned to be like the characters in the fables and stories he read. The island setting for Lord of the Flies and the names of the persons were taken from Coral Island.
             At about the age of twelve he decided to be a writer so he studied literature in college.
             After the second World War W. Golding came to believe that there was a very dark and evil side to man. "The war" he said "was very unlike. It taught us not fighting but about the given nature of man.
             His first three novels were very much like novels he had read, and he had called them the "rubbish" of imitation. His forth novel was "Lord of the Flies"
             1983 he earned the Nobel price for literature and died 10 years later in 1993.
             Plot: The action takes place on the mountain, where Ralph assembles the boys by blowing the conch. Ralph the is elected as leader. They realise that they're on an island.
             Then they decide to light a fire on the mountain as a signal and for protection. The fir burns out of control and kills a little one (the first victim of the fire).
             In the third chapter the action takes partly place on the beach and in the jungle. Ralph and Simon built shelters on the beach, jack went to hunt in the jungle (maybe the first splitting of the group and first conflict).
             A ship passed the island but the signal fire isn't burning anymore because the responsible boys went hunting. In the whole excitement one lens of Piggy's glasses gets broken.
             Ralph calls an assembly and tells the boys that the have to follow the rules. He tells them that the have to work together. The meeting has a sudden ending because Jac
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