World War Ii and William Golding
Jalissa Codner
33A September 13, 2014
Lord of the Flies William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, stated, “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder”, it highlights that your past follows you. It’s a burden to your future, it stays with you everyday of your life. It affects /impacts your life. William Golding was a frustrated as a kid. His outlet was bullying other kids. He described his childhood as a brat and also said he “enjoyed hurting people”. William Golding life experiences helped and made an impact on his fiction. His fiction shows s variety of storytelling techniques and it kept on going back to the problem of evil. After William Golding took a job teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in 1935. His teaching experience with unruly young boys students would later help him write Lord of the Flies. The boys helped him understand how pre-teens/ young adults really act. When working the boys, it helped him develop the novel. Since he knew how young boys act when they’re not around adults. The boys in school that would act out showed him their real character. How they really act. Lord of the Flies showed an uncontrolled side of human nature as the boys, on their own on a deserted island. They turned against each in face of an enemy that isn’t even there. When William Golding spent 5 years in the navy, from 1940 to 1945, it made a big impact to showing him the cruelty that humans are capable of, “Man produces evil, as a bee produces honey”. He fought in battleships, fend off submarines and planes. His participation in war, proved important material for his fiction writing. Showed him how humans can be violent and hurtful. Being in war showed William Golding the complete opposite of what his father taught him growing up. In World War 2 he saw
33A September 13, 2014
Lord of the Flies William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, stated, “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder”, it highlights that your past follows you. It’s a burden to your future, it stays with you everyday of your life. It affects /impacts your life. William Golding was a frustrated as a kid. His outlet was bullying other kids. He described his childhood as a brat and also said he “enjoyed hurting people”. William Golding life experiences helped and made an impact on his fiction. His fiction shows s variety of storytelling techniques and it kept on going back to the problem of evil. After William Golding took a job teaching English and philosophy in Salisbury at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in 1935. His teaching experience with unruly young boys students would later help him write Lord of the Flies. The boys helped him understand how pre-teens/ young adults really act. When working the boys, it helped him develop the novel. Since he knew how young boys act when they’re not around adults. The boys in school that would act out showed him their real character. How they really act. Lord of the Flies showed an uncontrolled side of human nature as the boys, on their own on a deserted island. They turned against each in face of an enemy that isn’t even there. When William Golding spent 5 years in the navy, from 1940 to 1945, it made a big impact to showing him the cruelty that humans are capable of, “Man produces evil, as a bee produces honey”. He fought in battleships, fend off submarines and planes. His participation in war, proved important material for his fiction writing. Showed him how humans can be violent and hurtful. Being in war showed William Golding the complete opposite of what his father taught him growing up. In World War 2 he saw