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Author: William Golding
First Published: 1955
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Allegory
Time of Work: Paleolithic period
Setting: A mountainous, wooded countryside not far from the sea
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy
Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Leadership, Communication, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Fear, Good and evil, Hunting or hunters, Naivete, Prehistoric humans, Prehistoric times, Stone Age
Locales: Ancient world

Lok, the consciousness through which most of the book is mediated. It is his perceptions of the “new people” that dictate readers’ responses to them, and it is through his thoughts and actions that readers come to understand how Neanderthal people could have constructed their reality. By default, he becomes the people’s leader after the deaths of Mal and Ha, but it is not a role that sits easily on him. By nature, he is a joker and clown. His decisions are not always the best. Fa’s instincts are sounder, and he finds himself deferring to the power...

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