1. Lord of the Flies
By: William Golding

2. Setting Time: During World War II (Global 1939-1945)
Location: A deserted island (evacuated from England)

3. Allegory: is a work with two levels of meaning, a literal one and a symbolic one. In an allegorical work, characters, objects, settings, and events represent abstract qualities.

4. Point of view: refers to the narrative perspective from which events in a story or novel are told.
Third person omniscient narrator: the narrator is an all-knowing, objective observer who stands outside the action and reports what different characters are thinking.

5. Three Types of Irony
Situational: is a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.

6. Three Types of Irony
Dramatic: occurs when readers know more about a situation or a character in a story than the characters do.

7. Three Types of Irony
Verbal: occurs when someone states one thing and means another.

8. Symbols The island The conch Eyeglasses of Piggy Signal fire
Pig’s head on a stick
Jack
Roger
Simon
Beast

9. Main Characters
Ralph
Jack
Piggy
Simon

10. Themes Good versus evil Appearance and reality Loss of innocence
The importance of civilization

11. Questions to consider while reading:
Are humans inherently evil or do they just make bad decisions?
What does it mean to be civilized?