Lord of the Flies Theme

          Lord of the Flies has a very good theme. There is many different books with a similar setting, people stranded on an island, but in this book it is very unique. On the island, there was a plane that crashed, the pilot died and all of the passengers were children. "In the middle of the scar he stood on his head and grinned at the reversal fat boy. 'No grownups!'" (Golding 8). at first the children are excited about not having any adults and think they can have fun and are free from rules, but a group of children will have trouble surviving without any adults.

Lord of the Flies Setting

           In Lord of the Flies the setting is on an island during or after World War II. "Didn't you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb?" (Golding 14). this quote hints toward World War II when it mentions an atom bomb and on the back of the book it mentions the second World War. The book takes place on an island, or what they know of so far of an island. Ralph climbed on a rock to get a good look and he thought it was an island, and they made it to a lagoon on a beach that was full of fish and shells. "'I climbed a rock,' said Ralph slowly, 'and I think this is an island'" (Golding 14).