Lord of the Flies: The Setting The setting of a story makes up most of the plot. The environment influences the characters and how they act. The setting of “The Lord of the Flies” takes place on an island in the middle of nowhere. This story is about a group of kids that get trapped on an island after a plane crash. There are no adults with them because they all died from the crash. William Golding made this the setting to make the plot of the story more interesting. A reason that Golding uses an island as the setting because he wants a group of kids all by themselves with no adul