Name __________________
Date ___________________
Background Information: Lord of the Flies
Instructions: Using a combination of web and EBSCO sources, use complete sentences when answering the
questions below. You must get your information from at least two different sources, and at least one source
must come from EBSCO. Sites such as Wikipedia, Ask.com, About.com, ChaCha.com, etc., may not be used.
Be sure to include:
 citations for your sources at the end of each answer
 a Works Cited page on the second page of this worksheet
 quotation marks every time you use the exact same words as your source (you can use quotations
occasionally but must put the majority of the information you find into your own words).
1. William Golding is a native of what country? What was his occupation during the 1940s?
2. Why were children evacuated from London during World War II? Where did they go, and what was their
experience like?
3. What is the Nobel Prize for Literature? How does one earn it?
4. Summarize Golding’s philosophy of human nature and explain what experiences helped shape this
philosophy.
5. From what you know about Golding's philosophy of human nature, what do you think might happen in his
story of a group of young boys stranded on a desert island with no adult supervision? Keep these predictions in
mind as you read through the novel.
Works Cited
Example
“Life & Photos.” William Golding. William Golding Limited. 2015. Web. 4 Jan. 2015. < http://www.williamgolding.co.uk/life.aspx>