Post #5 - Overall Reaction?

Please write up an overall reaction to Lord of the Flies. This should be one - two paragraphs in length, and 1 - 2 textual passages from the novel should be incorporated. What do you think Golding's overall purpose is? Due by midnight, Thursday, May 7th (15 pts)

William Golding's Life...Post #4

Please click on the following link http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wgolding.htm and

read about Sir William Golding and his works. Visit http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/golding-bio.html as well - go to "Presentation Speech" off to the right. Peruse; read paragraph 3. Write up a one-two paragraph post on how his life experiences influenced his most famous novel, Lord of the Flies. Incorporate text from the websites (be sure to cite correctly - authors' names are at the bottom of the first one; at the top of the second) as well as text from the novel (again, cite correctly!).
Due over vacation; no later than Sun., 4/19 - 15 pts.

Sir William Golding, 1983 Poet Laureate