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Monday, Day 1 Honors Fiction Expectations-fidelity-pride-responsibility commitment Preview Vocabulary-before Cornell notes & Post-Its-during Readers journals-after Books sign out A lens Finished by Monday-reading check quiz Essay & objective test Monday, April 20

William Golding was born on September 19, 1911 in Cornwall, England. Golding's father Alec did this drawing of his infant (second) son William Gerald, b. 1911, who was always known as 'Bill' or 'Billy‘. golding.org/golding/media.asp?me_id=9&me_rand=

Golding with the Headmaster of Bishop Wordsworth’s School, Dr Frederick Happold, in the 1950s. Golding taught English and (with other staff) ran the school's Combined Cadet Force (CCF) golding.org/golding/Default.asp?ap_id=&ca_id=&in_id=&page=3 Golding attended a public school (what Americans call private school), then went to Oxford University. He graduated in 1935 and went to work as a schoolmaster

During World War II, Golding served in the British Royal Navy, commanding a rocket-launching ship.

William Golding describes a major theme of Lord of the Flies as “an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature”

Golding’s personal philosophy about the nature of humans and evil changed during the war-came to believe that “man was sick—not exceptional man, but average man”

Lord of the Flies was partly written as a response to a popular boys’ novel by R.M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island, in which three shipwrecked boys live together happily on an island until they are rescued.

Golding believed that human nature would not result in such a harmonious existence-stripped of civilization’s social environment, human beings would return to a savage state ruled by fear and the basic desire for survival.

Golding published Lord of the Flies in Over the next 10 years, he published four more novels, many dealing with the moral flaws of human nature. Golding received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983

Symbols to watch for in Lord of the Flies The conch shell Lord of the Flies Huts Fire Piggy’s glasses Darkness Face paint The characters also function as symbols