William golding biography pdf free fall

1959 novel by William Golding

Free Fall is the fourth novel of English novelist William Golding, first published in 1959.^[1] Written in the first person, it is a self-examination by an English painter, Samuel Mountjoy, held in a German POW camp during World War II.

Plot

Samuel ('Sammy') Mountjoy, a talented painter but a directionless and unhappy man, is a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II. Recently some inmates escaped from his camp.

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British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature in.

This document is a stream-of-consciousness reflection by the author on themes of freedom, communication, identity, and family history.

Tying Memories into a Pattern: William Golding's Free Fall as Autobiografiction and.

Sammy Mountjoy is swept into World War II and somehow, somewhere, he loses his freedom, the faculty of freewill 'that cannot be debated but only experienced.

A Gestapo officer, Dr. Halde, interviews Sammy in an attempt to find out about the escape organisation; when Sammy denies knowing anything, Halde has him locked in a small store-room, awaiting possible torture. Under the pressure of the darkness, isolation and horrified anticipation he gradually breaks down; in a series of long flashbacks, he wonders what brought him to his current state, and in particular, how he lost his freedom.

As a very young child he was happy, despite living in a sl