Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies was written by William Golding and the book was written in 1954. William Golding is a famous English novelist, playwright and poet of over 62 works. Some of his most famous works include; The Heirs, Darkness Visible, The Spire, Pincher Martin and many more. In 1983 William Golding won the Nobel Prize for Literature for Lord of the Flies. Before winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for Lord of the Flies, Golding won the Booker Prize for Literature for his novel Rites of Passage, book number one in the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy. Golding was one of the few writers to be inducted into the Royal Society of Literature. Queen Elizabeth II knighted Golding in 1988 for his great literary achievements. William Golding was one of Britain's greatest writers. Lord of the Flies is set on a desert island in the late 1950s. A plane full of teenage boys is shot down during a war and crash-lands on a desert island. The first characters encountered in the story are Ralph and Piggy. They soon realize that they are deserted on an island without adults. At first Ralph finds it hilarious not to have adult supervision, he even decides to have fun and goes swimming. He enjoys himself until Piggy reminds him that they are stranded on an island and may not be saved. Piggy and Ralph then set out to find other survivors. The two boys find a shell and decide to use it as a signal for the others. Soon after Ralph and Piggy blow on the conch, several other boys head to the beach. The group of young boys decide that they need to form some sort of society. They vote for one of the older boys to be the leader of the group. Ralph immediately wants c... middle of paper... ...m of each other by age, they tend to have different views of being alone. Huck lived with others and ran away to be alone, and Ralph was sent alone due to a plane crash and is trying to be rescued. Both characters find an ally they wouldn't normally associate with, Huck finds a black slave and Ralph finds a chubby, nerdy boy. Both characters struggle to understand what is right and what is wrong in their respective romances. There are multiple differences and similarities between the characters in both novels. Overall, the novels are very different from the settings to the plots. After reading both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Lord of the Flies, my mind was awakened to the opportunities literature offers. Works Cited Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann, 1962. Print.