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Chapter Six Beast from Air 95108 Journal Prompt Why do people question authority Think of a personal or historical example when people did or did not question authority Analyze whether what h. BY WILLIAM GOLDING. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. WILLIAM GOLDING WAS BORN IN CORNWALL, ENGLAND IN 1911.. HE LIVED A SHELTERED, ISOLATED LIFE AS A CHILD.. HE KNEW HE WANTED TO WRITE BY AGE TWELVE.. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Read through the two paragraphs answering the question, “. What is the symbolism of the flies in the novel?. ”. Using three colours, highlight examples of the three Assessment Objectives:. Evidence. Discussion, Day 1:. Focus—Setting and Mood. Tuesday, December 2, 2014. One Question Quiz, Ch. 1. Where did Jack, Ralph, and Simon go and why?. Establishing Setting. The boys have been stranded on an island. . By Ken . Rodoff. , English teacher, Springfield Township High School, . Erdenheim. , PA.. Adapted by Joyce . Valenza. What am I trying to say?. Can a passage from the text say it for me? . Have I explained the value of the quote?. Analysis of Piggy’s . spectacles . What is the significant of Piggy’s spectacles throughout the novel Lord of the Flies? . “He . came forward, searching out safe . lodgments . for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles.” . The Lord of the Flies. William Golding (1911-1993). William Golding. Joined the Royal Navy in 1940; the experience had an impact on his fiction. The Lord of the Flies . (1954), bestseller. „Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganization of society... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong in the head” („Fable”). “It was simply what seemed sensible for me to write after the war when everyone was thanking God they weren’t Nazis. I’d seen enough to realize that every single one of us could be Nazis.”. --William Golding. Golding’s Use of Symbolism. Symbolism is the “frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level” (Wheeler).. William Golding uses so much symbolism in Lord of the Flies that many critics agree that it is an allegory- a writing that has “a double meaning” (Wheeler).. LOTF). Table of Contents. Anticipation Guide. Life raft Activity. Lord of the Flies . Intro. Characterization CN. Close Reading CN. Chapter 1 Questions. Chapter 2 Questions. Chapter 3 Questions. Chapter 4 Questions. Chapter 10:. The Shell and The Glasses. Plot. Ralph and Piggy return to the camp after Simons murder . They discover that Sam and Eric and a few . littluns. are the only ones left at the camp . Roger joins Jack’s tribe and discovers that Jack is going to beat Wilfred for unknown reason's. 1911- 1993. About William Golding. British novelist. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in literature. Fought in Royal Navy during WWII. Participated in invasion of Normandy on D-Day. At war’s end, returned to teaching and writing. Freedom is Dangerous . In Lord of the Flies, it shows that freedom is dangerous because without the rules and order from adults; the boys try to keep their own civilization by choosing a chief and making it a rule to use to conch. When Jack starts to make his own group and they rebel against Piggy and Ralph, they start to realize the little bit of society and civilization they had is slipping away. Showing that without these normal everyday rules they had and followed, are gone and they realize that they can get away with anything because they are alone. This resulting in danger of the fire, death and savagery. The boys start resulting in cruelty to others and the death of 3 of the boys. . Lord of the Flies. By William Golding. Biography of William Golding. 1911-1993. Early Life. Born on September 19, 1911 in Cornwall, England . (In his grandmother’s house!). His father, Alec, was a schoolmaster (science) at Marlborough Grammar School. Data Nuggets. Featured scientist: Biz Turnell from Technische Universität Dresden. Sea squirts (left) have the alternative oxidase (AOX) gene that lets their mitochondria make fewer reactive oxygen species (ROS). .