WHO GETS TO GO FOR DRINKS?
I RECENTLY READ Lord of the Flies for the first time. In case you, like me, went to a student-fearing school that did not assign it, is about a group of boys left alone on an island after their plane crashes. One by one, the boys succumb to their primal instincts – a “boys will be boys” worst-case scenario. At one point, Simon, the only morally steadfast boy on the island, contemplates a severed pig head on a stake. He realises that he alone stands in the way of the inherent evil consuming them, and he stumbles back to the group to warn them about their own vicious natures. They murder him with their bare hands.
