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William Golding wrote his novel, //Lord of the Flies//, after serving with the British Navy during WWII. His experiences in the war led him to make a critical statement about humankind: we are all inherently evil. The novel follows a group of school boys as they try to survive on a deserted island without supplies, without food, and without grown-ups. At first, they attempt to maintain order using a conch shell as the mark of power...but the longer the boys are stranded, the more they revert to the savage and animal nature that lives inside us all.

As we study //Lord of the Flies// in class, we will watch clips from the 1963 film-version of the novel.

We will also be incorporating several non-fiction works into our study of //Lord of the Flies//, including news articles and documentaries about survival and savagery. News articles include: 3 Teenage Boys Rescued After 50 Days Stranded at Sea (Nov. 2010), Stanford Prison Experiment (2008), and Survivors Found 10 Weeks After Plane Crash (2008).

Our extended film study will include one of the following films: //Cast Away// (2000), starring Tom Hanks, or //Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains// (2007), a documentary about the events that inspired the movie, //Alive//, about the survival of the passengers of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 that crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972.

RELATED DOCUMENTS: [|Lord of the Flies Reading Guides.pdf] [|Cast Away Viewing Guide.docx] [|Stranded Viewing Guide.docx]