In Lord of the Flies, Golding made a point to only include young white English boys in his book. This book, published in 1954, had these boys stranded on an island, with the oldest once there only being about 12 years old. No girls, no minorities. Why? If girls and minorities were also stranded on the island, the self-established hierarchy would put them at the bottom, and they would be in a dangerous situation. While we don’t know the setting in the book time wise, we do know that the author was raised through World War I and lived through World War II. In the book, the term “savages” comes up very frequently, at first when one was reminding the boys how they are “not savages,” but “English, and the English are the best at everything.” (Golding,