https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H Interesting facts... en-us 2017-02-09 18:23:00 UTC 2025-12-23 21:17:01 UTC hello@padlet.com brufish2 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/152880106 2017-02-09 18:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/152880106 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155591573 " Words may, through the devotion, the passion and the luck of writers, prove to be the most powerful thing in the world."
Also won the Nobel Prize in Literature.]]> 2017-02-22 20:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155591573 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155591789 He led a landing ship on the shores of Normandy, June 6, 1944. (D-Day)]]> 2017-02-22 20:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155591789 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592147 Golding was knighted in 1988 by Queen Elizabeth II.]]> 2017-02-22 20:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592147 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592227 He was also an actor and musician.]]> 2017-02-22 20:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592227 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592302 He was awarded the known to be coveted Booker Prize in 1980. ]]> 2017-02-22 20:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592302 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592337 During WWII, Golding joined the Royal Navy  in 1940. He fought on board a destroyer and was briefly involved in the pursuit and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck.]]> 2017-02-22 20:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592337 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592363 "Lord of the Flies" outside of referring to the novel itself, refers to the demon Beelzebub.  The demon is described as a demonic fly.  Beelzebub can also refer to the devil.
-Tess]]> 2017-02-22 20:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592363 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592600 He tried to rape a 15 year old girl and put it in his memoir

]]> 2017-02-22 20:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592600 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592694 Due to trauma while fighting in the Navy, some think that Golding suffered from PTSD, before a proper diagnosis was introduced.

-Caylee Watermelon

]]> 2017-02-22 20:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592694 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592795 William Golding’s writing style mostly used classical literature, Christian symbolism and mythology and all his novels are distinct from each other.]]> 2017-02-22 20:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592795 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592860 he pursued acting before he started writing.]]> 2017-02-22 20:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592860 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592897 He was knighted by the queen in 1988, at age 77.]]> 2017-02-22 20:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592897 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592914 His inspiration for writing about young schoolboys was from being a school teacher]]> 2017-02-22 20:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592914 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592916 His wife said he "may have been a homo[sexual]"]]> 2017-02-22 20:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155592916 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593194

Oliver 

]]> 2017-02-22 20:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593194 habrendan https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593279 Was a teacher at an all boys school.]]> 2017-02-22 20:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593279 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593321 "My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder."

-William Golding]]> 2017-02-22 20:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593321 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593556 2017-02-22 20:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593556 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593693 Kayla Wilford]]> 2017-02-22 20:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593693 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155593999 “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”

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]]> 2017-02-22 20:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594223 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594309 This lad won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature

-caylee]]> 2017-02-22 20:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594309 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594442 2017-02-22 20:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594442 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594463 “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”]]> 2017-02-22 20:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594463 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594488 he grew up next to a graveyard]]> 2017-02-22 20:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594488 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155594541

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]]> 2017-02-22 20:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155595094 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155595109 He is also a published poet!

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]]> 2017-02-22 20:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155595134 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155595254 2017-02-22 20:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/155595254 https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/156295355 William would describe his childhood self as a brat, even going so far as to say, “I enjoyed hurting people.”]]> 2017-02-27 01:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/brufish2/WilliamGolding10H/wish/156295355