Lord of the Flies: Book and Movie Comparison This essay will be comparing the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, and the movie Lord of the Flies. The book is a great adventure story and so is the movie. There are many aspects to the book The novel takes place during a war. I get this impression from the fact that they make several references to bombs and naval ships. All of the characters in the book are British. The book’s setting is a small island somewhere. Their plane had crashed on the island and only the boys were alive after the crash. The whole plot of the book is based upon the boys being stranded on