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Set-up Post-Apocolyptic? A planeload of schoolboys being evacuated from their school during a war. Their plane crash lands on a deserted island How will they survive? Remind you of anything???
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Author – William GoldingBorn in Britain 1911Published a book of poems in 1934Naval Commander in WWIIParticipated in D-Day LandingLOTF – first published bookNobel Prize – 1983Died in 1993
Set-upPost-Apocolyptic?A planeload of schoolboys being
evacuated from their school during a war. Their plane crash lands on a deserted
islandHow will they survive?
Remind you of anything???
Piggy
IntelligentAsthmatic Zoftig
Simon
Member of the choirboysQuietIntrospective
Sam n’ Eric
TwinsYounger than RalphOlder than littluns
LittleunsPrimary school
kidsSome named,
like Percival Weems Madison – some not
ThemesHuman Nature – good? evil? noble?
savage?Government/Order vs. Chaos/Anarchy Nature of WarIn the wake of WWII and Hiroshima
