The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
Spoiler: they made a pact never to argue and took self-imposed time-outs when they lapsed. One broke his leg and they cared for him so well it healed perfectly. They planted a vegetable garden and kept their spirits up singing along to a guitar they fashioned from driftwood and a coconut shell.
(Article is weirdly focused on the white guy who rescued them, though.)The point of Lord of the Flies is not “Humans do terrible things without laws”
It’s “We’re raising our boys to be little terrors, why don’t we stop.”
