1. Literary devices
1.1. Personification
1.1.1. "Far beneath them, the trees of the forest sighed, then roared" Page 75
1.1.2. "The leaves were roaring like the sea" Page 75
1.2. Allegory
1.2.1. Ralph
1.2.1.1. Society
1.2.1.2. Making laws, working hard to get rescued
1.2.1.3. Gets angry at Jack when he lets the signal fire go out (In chapter 4)
1.2.2. Jack
1.2.2.1. Savagery
1.2.2.2. Uncontrollagle, wild
1.2.2.3. Recreates a boar hunt, loses himself and almost kills a littlun
1.2.3. Simon
1.2.3.1. Kind, good person
1.2.3.2. Has some similarities to Jesus
1.2.3.2.1. Killed by popular group, seen as a threat without reason
1.2.3.2.2. Did nothing wrong
1.2.4. Conch
1.2.4.1. Represents order
1.2.4.2. Gets crushed by Jack
1.3. Flashbacks
1.3.1. "Once, following his father from Chatham to Devonport, they had lived in a cottage on the edge of the moors" Page 86
1.3.2. "In the succession of houses that Ralph had known, this one stood out with particular clarity because after that house he had been sent away to school" Page 86
1.3.3. "Mummy had still been with them and Daddy had come home every day" Page 86
1.4. Foreshadowing
1.4.1. "The air had seemed to vibrate with heat; but now it threatened" Page 103
2. The author
2.1. Sir William Golding
2.1.1. Born in Cornwall, 1911
2.1.2. Popular books
2.1.2.1. Lord of the Flies
2.1.2.2. The Inheritors
2.1.2.3. Pincher Martin
2.1.3. Nobel Prize for Literature
2.1.3.1. in 1983
2.1.4. Life outside of Literature
2.1.4.1. Was a soldier
2.1.4.1.1. Participated in the invasion on D-day
2.1.4.2. Studied at Oxford
3. Story
3.1. Characters
3.1.1. Ralph
3.1.1.1. Protagonist
3.1.1.2. Trying to make laws
3.1.1.3. Childish
3.1.2. Jack
3.1.2.1. Antagonist
3.1.2.2. Disobeying the rules
3.1.2.3. Hunter
3.1.3. Piggy
3.1.3.1. Friend of Ralph
3.1.3.2. Is buliied
3.1.3.3. Loyal to Ralph
3.2. Autobiographical aspects
3.2.1. Based on violence in real world (WWII)
3.2.1.1. He was a soldier in WWII, and he based the book on some of his experiences during this time.
3.2.2. Fictional, not in real life
3.3. Setting
3.3.1. On an unnamed, uninhabited island
3.3.2. During a war
3.4. Point of view
3.4.1. 3rd person
3.5. Writing style
3.5.1. Straightforward
3.5.2. Many adjectives
3.5.3. Not flowery/poëtic