Radu's review
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
How soon would be descend into an animal view of the world? It would probably take a bit of time for someone who's already had 20+ years in the "civilized" world unless conditions were so unfavorable that only the most "animal" of people would survive. But what if we're talking about children, whose view of the world has been mainly shaped through imitating adults?
Golding offers an "answer" to this in the form of the story of a group of school-children left behind on an island after an airplane crash. Without supervision, with nothing to eat but what they can find on the island, without previous knowledge of life in the wilderness. What comes up next most of us could probably imagine in broad lines, but few of us will have the ability to go into the tiniest details of this transformation; for that you'll have to read this great book. :)
Golding offers an "answer" to this in the form of the story of a group of school-children left behind on an island after an airplane crash. Without supervision, with nothing to eat but what they can find on the island, without previous knowledge of life in the wilderness. What comes up next most of us could probably imagine in broad lines, but few of us will have the ability to go into the tiniest details of this transformation; for that you'll have to read this great book. :)
