Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies was written by William Golding and the book was written in 1954. William Golding is a renowned English novelist, playwright and poet of over 62 works. Some of his most famous works include: The Inheritors, Darkness Visible, The Spire, Pincher Martin and many others. In 1983, William Golding received the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Lordship 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 one of 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 takes place on a desert island in the late 1950s. A plane full of teenagers is shot down during a war and the plane crashes on a desert island. The first characters encountered in the story are Ralph and Piggy. They quickly realize that they are deserted on an island without adults. At first, Ralph finds it exhilarating not to have adult supervision. He even decides to have fun and goes swimming. He's having fun until Piggy reminds him that they're stuck on an island and may not be able to be saved. Piggy and Ralph then set out to search for other survivors. The two boys find a conch shell and decide to use it as a signal for the others. Shortly after Ralph and Piggy blow the conch, many other boys head to the beach. The group of young boys decide that they must form some sort of society. They vote for one of the oldest boys to be the leader of the group. Right away, Ralph wants to be in the middle of the paper...... in terms of age, they tend to have different views of loneliness. Huck was living with others and ran away to live alone, and Ralph was sent alone because of a plane crash and is trying to be saved. Both characters find an ally they wouldn't normally associate with, Huck finds a black slave, and Ralph finds a chubby, nerdy little kid. Both characters struggle with determining good and evil throughout their respective novels. Between the characters in the two novels, there are multiple differences and similarities. Overall, the novels are very different from their settings to their plots. After reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Lord of the Flies, my mind was awakened to the opportunities that literature offers. Works Cited Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann, 1962. Print.