in the year 1957, the novel depicts the struggle for survival of a shipwrecked sailor. It is the story of an egotistical man who is already dead. Golding takes for his protagonist Christopher Hadley Martin who becomes Pincher Martin later. The title of the novel evokes Pincher's devilish ego, his pride, and greed with which he pinches men, women and boys. Pincher is also a common name for the sailors. So we see the protagonist Pincher Martin as a shipwrecked sailor who is blown off the bridge of a torpedoed destroyer into the swirling waters of the Atlantic during the World War II. He is a naval lieutenant whose wartime destroyer is torpedoed by the enemy in mid-Atlantic as a result of which he is blown off the bridge of the ship. He is the sole survivor in the tragic mishap and manages to stay afloat by inflating his lifebelt. He kicks off his sea boots and eventually reaches a large barren rock called
in the year 1957, the novel depicts the struggle for survival of a shipwrecked sailor. It is the story of an egotistical man who is already dead. Golding takes for his protagonist Christopher Hadley Martin who becomes Pincher Martin later. The title of the novel evokes Pincher's devilish ego, his pride, and greed with which he pinches men, women and boys. Pincher is also a common name for the sailors. So we see the protagonist Pincher Martin as a shipwrecked sailor who is blown off the bridge of a torpedoed destroyer into the swirling waters of the Atlantic during the World War II. He is a naval lieutenant whose wartime destroyer is torpedoed by the enemy in mid-Atlantic as a result of which he is blown off the bridge of the ship. He is the sole survivor in the tragic mishap and manages to stay afloat by inflating his lifebelt. He kicks off his sea boots and eventually reaches a large barren rock called