I read Bregman's book and can recommend it. The boys in question collaborated, grew crops and fished. Whenever they had a fight amongst them they'd retreat to cool down. One of them broke his leg and the others cared for him.

Hey, thanks man, that was an interesting read, perfect for insomniacs trying to fall asleep.

Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don't recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you're absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you're right back to Lord of the Flies.

Anyone know what the movie mentioned in the article is called? Could be a fun niche watch.

I both dislike the book and dislike this comic for missing the actual point of the book, which is not in fact, haha, this is what would actually happen and it's just a group of random kids. It was specifically portraying british aristocratic children to criticize the colonizer mindset while discussing larger issues of human nature and civility and structure vs chaos.

I liked that book. It was eye-opening. And kinda made me appreciate the relative orderliness we have in a society run by adults. As much as kids would love to run wild & free with no supervision, but I was fortunate to be a child of the 1970's & 80s so I enjoyed the perfect balance of wild freedom with parental care at the end of every day.

Can I ask why? It was actually one of my favorites in school, so just curious for a differing opinion.

I was expecting one of the boys to get complete mastery of the word "the", then get the power of flight so he could leave the island. So disappointed.

"Shucks to your Ass-mar" Said Ralph, as his face grew white, his eyes lost focus, and a telltale buzzing began emanating from somewhere deep inside of him. His mouth drooped low and spread wide forming a horrifying O at least two feet in diameter. The buzzing became louder and more frantic, as thousands of flies began to spill from his mouth, hurtling towards the small, fat boy in front of him who even now was attempting, futilely, to run from the buzzing, angry, hungry swarm of flies.

"He truly is" said one of the other boys, glad not to be the object of Ralph's ire for once "the lord of the flies"

I don't remember it very well but I thought the title was a reference to something hypothetical one of the kids thought of

Like they saw something they didn't fully understand and extrapolated that the thing they were seeing was the lord of the flies

Sucks to your assmar

Spoiler alert: >!Piggy died.!<