I still to this day don’t understand the point that book served. I don’t know if it was just a product of its time but I don’t think a bunch of children would behave like that in the event of being stranded

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    I sort of hated some books like that also. Anyway, I think it was more meant to be an allegory about society than a realistic tale of something that might actually happen.

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        That’s the thing… it’s not really about society collapsing or being stranded on an island. It’s about human nature and how people set up societies.

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        You have no idea what you’d do when you’re a day away from starvation for weeks at a time.

        Unless you’ve been there, in which case, ignore me.