War, society, peace, chaos and almost even judgment day, these are all depicted in Lord of the Flies written by William Golding. It portrays a very real time in modern history. Golding wrote this book right around the time of the chaos in WWII. He tried to put together a story that might bring this chaos and confusion into a more simple and easy way to understand, in a story of children and a society that they create themselves. All that was going on at the time is captured in a story of boys stranded on a deserted island.
             Before Golding wrote this book, there were was a society in which a leader did not like what was going on in the world. He thought he had a way to improve things. He thought his way was better than anyone else's. The society was Germany and the leader was Hitler, and he set about to take over the countries around him. As Hitler got a country under his control, the people of the country believed everything he said and they did everything that he commanded them to do. Hitler had a strong military, and said he was going to fix the world, but ended up killing people that could have actually been helpful to the society, like the Jews and other groups that he persecuted.
             During this time Golding was fighting against Germany in the British Royal Navy. Golding thought that people who started believing their way was better than everyone else's were bad; the Germans ended up killing many, many innocent people in the process of eliminating "the enemy." It was hard to comprehend what really happened during the World War II after the war ended. For some reason many people would not talk about what happened even though it could have prevent what happened from occurring again. Many people in the world did not want to know how vicious Hitler had been. They do not want to be involved if they do not have to be.
             Golding's book helped people realize how senseless war really is, and it also taught people that any
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