Better than you might expect. Article at The Guardian: The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months Read it, and think a little better of humanity. From the last paragraph:
It's time we told a different kind of story. The real Lord of the Flies is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.It's good to have something a little uplifting right now.
BTW and on a personal note, I've never read LotF, even though I've always heard about it. I'm guessing that I fell into that burned-over era where the book had been in vogue fifteen years before I was reading and had since fallen onto the has-been shelf. Or maybe after some of the excesses of the Sixties, it was a warning that people felt had come and gone.
Anyway, go and read. You'll feel better for it.
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