alt Hacker NewsWho could have guessed that growing up in a Polynesian culture is a better preparation for such a thing than going to an English boarding school..
Who could have guessed that growing up in a Polynesian culture is a better preparation for such a thing than going to an English boarding school..
You're implying Golding based it on experience on how unsupervised children really behave, but in fact he made it all up. Now (well, 60 years ago) that he has been debunked, we should accept the evidence, not invent arbitrary reasons why it doesn't apply. Especially since the boys in question were "Sione, Stephen, Kolo, David, Luke and Mano – all pupils at a strict Catholic boarding school in Nuku‘alofa."