I always thought the book was gross and silly. I didn’t have the literary comprehension to see the writer was serious and making a statement.
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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
(www.theguardian.com)
tbf the author wasn't making a dig at society in general it was a critique of English private school boy life and the viciousness it engenders

libs will say this is the human nature anyway
Had Auschwitz been an anomaly, they wanted to know, or is there a Nazi hiding in each of us?
Let's ask the writer what they think about immigration or trans people I wonder