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Interview with William Golding BBC Studio.

Present: Leanne Le Poidevin and William Golding

Leanne Le Poidevin is interviewing William Golding about his book,
Lord Of The Flies.

Leanne: Good afternoon Mr. Golding.

Mr Golding:Good afternoon to you.

Leanne:As we all know, Lord of the flies is about lots of boys trapped on an island. What was the reason of putting just boys on the island?
Why were there no girls?

Mr Golding:At the time of the book, it was the war. Fighting and arguing was going on around us, and it seemed as though nobody was really sane anymore. It started off as being happy and positive, and ended up being complete madness. Women were at home, doing the housework, cooking food, you know? They didn't …show more content…

One of them is the blood or killing theme.
Why did you feel it was necessary to include this?

Mr Golding:At the age that the boys are, they are boisterous, very loud and they are basically trying to impress each other. Jack is known as the leader of the hunters, but it is obvious that he really doesn't have a clue about hunting. I purposely made him a choirboy because they are known to be girl-like quiet pretty boys. When Jack tells the boys he will be the leader of the hunters, there is a sense of shock. I wanted it to be a surprise for the reader that such an innocent boy could be so sinister. He is so eager to gain some kind of authority over the group that he is willing to destroy his innocence and murder a creature.

Leanne:You mentioned innocence there. What do you mean by that?

Mr Golding:Well, a fifteen-year-old boy has a lot of innocence about him. By killing something, the young child is almost breaking the rules of what it has been brought up to believe in. When they witness blood that they have caused, their childhood is automatically broken.

Leanne: I see. There is a lot of chaos running through the book. Why did you add this effect?

Mr Golding: Young boys always want to be in charge. I imagined myself and a group of my friends, when we were younger of course, stranded on an island. We would have been fighting, and not listening to what anybody had to say. It would have been every hard to

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