Lord of the Flies
William Golding, 1954
Twelve boys, one island, no adults: a school story that becomes an inquiry into how quickly people build rules, and how easily they drop them.
William Golding
Golding taught boys at a Salisbury school for years and commanded a rocket-firing landing craft on D-Day; both the schoolboys and the war fed this book.
Feels like dread, freedom and unease.
Dread arrives on the beach in step, wearing a silver cross.
Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along. Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way. Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing. The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing. Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill. Books by William Golding
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