Writing Resources
The renowned Nobel prize winner William Golding published his famous book Lord of the Flies in 1954 during the time of the Cold War Lord of the Flies takes place during World War II which Goulding himself fought in as a royal navy soldier There are many evident themes in this novel One of the most predominant themes is loss of innocence which is clearly presented through the main characters and their actions Those include Having their plane crash on an abandoned island with no civilization is something everyone would find outraging especially boys between the ages of 6 12 With no adults around the boys do not know what to do or how to respond to this catastrophe but being put in such a traumatizing situation they learn how to grow up very fast At this point the sudden transfer from childhood to adulthood is where a lot of boys innocence is lost simply because they did not know how to act as adults and weren't able to adapt to that sudden change smoothly which lead to their violent actions Here is an excellent example of how the boys take violence as something exciting something fun when really there is nothing good or fun in violence You should have seen the blood Goulding 70 In order to stay alive the boys had to quickly realize that they need to start with some survival skills which for some of the boys was a brand new thing
