Monday, April 2, 2012
By: Tianna Guy
William Golding, who was born in 1911, is the author of the successful novel Lord of the Flies. William is educated at Marlborough Grammar School and is an Oxford graduate. Growing up, his father had high expectations of him becoming a scientist but he revolted and became a writer. This pushed him into writing so many admirable novels. When World war II embarked, William Golding became a lieutenant in the British Navy during the 1940's and was present on the french invasion of Normandy on D-Day. After the War took place, William went back to writing and teaching. Lord of the flies, being his first novel became very successful in 1954 when it was published.
Living in William Golding's time must of been really hard because of the Holocaust and all the war that was happening then. It must have left him with so much pain and sorrow from having to witness people being killed and a lot of emptiness and loneliness surrounding him. Having his father pressuring him into something he has no interest in being also could of put problems into his time growing up. All these hard times and neglect growing up is one of the main reasons why i believe William Golding wrote the novel. Participating in war had made him stronger and allowed him to put all his experience of a rough childhood into his wonderful poems and novels such as the Lord of the Flies.
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