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Lord of the Flies: A Natural Experiment
I was thinking of there's actually been some real life situations that sort of mimic the storyline of Lord of the Flies. That when kids stranded on islands figure out a way to cooperate and are quite empathetic with each other. It actually had happened in 1966, and six boys were at a boarding school in Tonga. They thought it was very boring, and they thought, well, let's go on an adventure. And I started digging and digging, and after a couple of weeks, I managed to track down the real story.