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William Golding Allusion
Why I think William Golding wrote the novel “Lord of the Flies”
By: Hoang Nguyen

The novel William Golding wrote is mainly about a bunch of young British boys stranded on a deserted island without any adults. Then the boys tried to establish some-what a civil society to resolve problems but unfortunate events happen one after another. I believe the reason why Golding wrote the novel was because he had seen many things during World War One while servicing the British Royal Navy and tried to interpret these events he saw through an allusion. I think the idea he tried to show what humans are in reality; he shows them as corrupted beings. I believe the novel shows how man fails at creating a true civil society. This is interpreted through the

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