Lord Of The Flies
Author: William Golding
Characters
Piggy
"Subject of the group's ridicule for his weight, asthma, and general lack of physical prowess or stamina. He provides the brains of the group, as well as the spectacles necessary to start the fire"(Unknown). Piggy never changed he was the same through out the whole time.
Jack
"The leader of the choir/hunters. Already militant as a choir leader, Jack leads his group of choirboys-turned-hunters in mutiny against Ralph's leadership by playing on the boys' baser instincts"(Unknown). He was always the rebel in the story, he became a killer after a while that they were in the island
Ralph
"He elected leader of the boys and the main protagonist. He is neither the smartest nor the strongest but has a kind of quiet charisma and good looks"(Unknown). Ralph was always the nice person who did not kill anyone, he was left alone with noone.
Setting
The lagoon towards a "coral reef" and, beyond that, the "dark blue" of the "open sea."(Unknown).
Theme : Rules are important
The theme is rules are important because if their isn't any rules you could go crazy and not know whats right from wrong. Rules are boundaries that put you to a stop when its enough. They didn't follow any rules because they killed and one rule is not to kill.
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prizefor literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth