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 bo