title: Lord of the Flies Literature Guide (Secondary Solutions)
author:  Kathleen Woken-Rowley 
description: Kathleen Woken-Rowley is a retired middle school teacher in California. She taught for over 25 years, and earned several grants and awards, including the prestigious Teacher-of-the-Year award in her final year of teaching. She has a passion for teaching and for great literature. Woken-Rowley co-founded Secondary Solutions and for years has continued to write and create quality educational materials for the Secondary classroom, including Literature Guides for Freak the Mighty, Night, Lord of the Flies, and more.
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  WILLIAM GOLDING
  
  
  # Lord of the Flies
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [_Introduction_
  
  
  
  
  
  by Stephen King
  
  
  
  
  
  I grew up in a small northern New England farming community where most of the
  roads were dirt, there were more cows than people, and the school housing
  grades one through eight was a single room heated by a woodstove. Kids who
  were bad didn’t get detention; they had to stay after school and either chop
  stovelengths or sprinkle lime in the privies.
  
  
  
  
  
  Of course, there was no town library, but in the deserted Methodist parsonage
  about a quarter of a mile from the house where my brother David and I grew up
  there was one room piled high with mouldering books, many of them swelled to
  the size of telephone directories. A good percentage of them were boys’ books
  of the sort our British cousins call ‘ripping yarns’. David and I were
  voracious readers, a habit we got from ou