Lord of the Flies
by William Golding

Lord of the Flies: Flashbacks 1 key example

Chapter 7
Explanation and Analysis—Dreaming of Home:

In Chapter 7, in a stream of consciousness flashback, Ralph daydreams of his home country, England.

Once, following his father from Chatham to Devonport, they had lived in a cottage on the edge of the moors. In the succession of houses that Ralph had known, this one stood out with particular clarity because after that house he had been sent away to school. Mummy had still been with them and Daddy had come home every day. […] When you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream. And the books—they stood on the shelf by the bed, leaning together with always two or three laid flat on top because he had not bothered to put them back properly.