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Bewildered
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Lord of the Flies
Golding's premise was, you know, thank God for all the rules at British boarding school. But then I was reading a really good book called Human Kind by Rucker Bragman. And he actually found a case where a group of boys in the South Sea Islands stole a boat for a joyride and ended up stranded on a desert island for 15 months. So what had happened on the island when they were in fact in a Lord of the Flies situation? The first thing they did was sit down and say, we must never disagree with each other. We're all we've got. They were lifelong friends and they had evolved a way of being and doing things that was intensely
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