Golding wasn’t allowed due to his age but he recalled that José told him that ‘there were “bits of men” in the boats’. Golding’s older brother José and other boys would go to the beach and watch the survivors being brought to shore in lifeboats. During the First World War, German U-boats attacked British supply ships, and as Carey writes, ‘the windows at Karenza gave him his first look at warfare’. However, there was something darker on the beaches of Cornwall, which anticipates the darker turn in Golding’s first novel. Karenza, the house where Golding was born. He stands on his head in delight and exclaims ‘Whizzoh’ as he dives into the sea. Shortly after crashing on the island, before the descent into savagery, Ralph is thrilled at their new-found freedom. He would swim in the sea no matter the weather and his boyish joy is mirrored later in Lord of the Flies. He wrote that ‘my early memories of my birthplace have a certain glamour about them’ (‘Scenes from a Life’), and Golding loved the golden beaches of North Cornwall. The house, called Karenza – Cornish for ‘love’ – was aptly named since Newquay, and Cornwall more generally, became one of Golding’s most cherished places. William Golding was born on 19 th September, 1911, at his grandparents’ house in Newquay, Cornwall. We are offering support for students and teachers.
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