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Title of Work: Lord of the Flies
Author and date written: William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1954.
Country (and state/region) of author :
Golding is from Cornwall, England. He was born in Newquay, Cornwall, England on September 19, 1911 and died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England on June 19, 1993 at the age of 81. He married Ann Brookefieldon on September 30, 1939. They had two children, David and Judith. His daughter, Judith Golding, also became a writer.
Reason for the book being banned and/or challenged:
Lord of the Flies contained profanity, passages about sex, and statements that pick on minorities, God, women, and the disabled. Lord of the Flies is an illustration that religion does not create peace and order but rather destroys it because the savages were once civilized, religious boys who create the conditions for havoc and cruelty, who turn their paradise on earth into a living hell introducing superstition, and then violence based on supposed "rightness". It was challenged most recently in 2000 but remained on the ninth-grade accelerated English reading list in Bloomfield, New York.
Characters (major and minor) with brief descriptions of each; include at least two adjectives for each and some commentary:
Ralph is the athletic and charismatic with strong morals with a few lapses in judgement. A natural-born leader with a golden-boy appearance, looked up to by the little ones on the island. He was chosen to be a leader among the boys and brings them together. He represents order, civilization, and productivity, trying to be mature in the midst of the schoolboys. Ralph builds huts and thinks of ways to maximize their chances of being rescued in the duration of the book.
Piggy is the only constant on the island, never-changing. He represents wisdom and order. He wears glasses that later become broken. He has asthma and is obese, and acts as Ralph's advisor. He is the only one on the island that acts like an adult whereas
Author and date written: William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1954.
Country (and state/region) of author :
Golding is from Cornwall, England. He was born in Newquay, Cornwall, England on September 19, 1911 and died in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England on June 19, 1993 at the age of 81. He married Ann Brookefieldon on September 30, 1939. They had two children, David and Judith. His daughter, Judith Golding, also became a writer.
Reason for the book being banned and/or challenged:
Lord of the Flies contained profanity, passages about sex, and statements that pick on minorities, God, women, and the disabled. Lord of the Flies is an illustration that religion does not create peace and order but rather destroys it because the savages were once civilized, religious boys who create the conditions for havoc and cruelty, who turn their paradise on earth into a living hell introducing superstition, and then violence based on supposed "rightness". It was challenged most recently in 2000 but remained on the ninth-grade accelerated English reading list in Bloomfield, New York.
Characters (major and minor) with brief descriptions of each; include at least two adjectives for each and some commentary:
Ralph is the athletic and charismatic with strong morals with a few lapses in judgement. A natural-born leader with a golden-boy appearance, looked up to by the little ones on the island. He was chosen to be a leader among the boys and brings them together. He represents order, civilization, and productivity, trying to be mature in the midst of the schoolboys. Ralph builds huts and thinks of ways to maximize their chances of being rescued in the duration of the book.
Piggy is the only constant on the island, never-changing. He represents wisdom and order. He wears glasses that later become broken. He has asthma and is obese, and acts as Ralph's advisor. He is the only one on the island that acts like an adult whereas