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What Is The Point Of View In Lord Of The Flies

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Lord of the Flies

William Golding

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Title: Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding
First publication: 1954 by Faber and Faber Limited
Current publisher: Educational Edition
Pages: 271
Genre: Adventure

Setting of time and place
The book takes place on a deserted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. On page 12 ‘Piggy’ says: “This is an island. At least I think it’s an island.” The time of the book isn’t mentioned, only that meanwhile the kids are on the island, somewhere else World War 2 is going on.

Social setting
There are no adults on the Island, only the remaining boys who survived the plane crash. “Perhaps there are no parents” “All of them other kids, some of them must have got out” Piggy says on page 12. Here he has yet only found Ralph on the Island. They try to find out how to reach out to the other kids. There are 30 remaining kids in between the age of 6 and 12. Free from all rules the boys seek out adventure. There isn’t any kind of luxury on the island and they will have to find a way to survive.

Point of view
The narrator tells us the story using third person in an omniscient point of view. He focuses the most on Ralph’s point of view, but also follows Jack and Simon a lot. He moves back and forth between telling us about different scenes and thoughts of the characters. For example, in chapter six page 125: Jack sneers at Ralph, “Frightened?” and Ralph replies: “Of course I’m frightened. Who wouldn’t

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