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Front-Ranger:
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Didn't they put the dead pig's head on a stake, where it attracted flies, and they called it Lord of the Flies and tried to get other boys to worship it?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 14, 2020, 05:14:33 pm ---Caution, disturbing image ahead
Didn't they put the dead pig's head on a stake, where it attracted flies, and they called it Lord of the Flies and tried to get other boys to worship it?
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I couldn't say. It's now almost 50 years since I read it.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 14, 2020, 05:14:33 pm ---Didn't they put the dead pig's head on a stake, where it attracted flies, and they called it Lord of the Flies and tried to get other boys to worship it?
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Exactly. I know that much. I think some boys get stranded on a desert island or something and the book is about how quickly human civilization can break down into brutality and savagery or something like that.
If "Lord of the Flies" is another name for Beelzebub, it's clever word play! Because the pig/flies part is definitely part of the plot.
Speaking of heads on stakes, did anyone read the New Yorker piece that ran sometime around Thanksgiving debunking all the myths of the mostly fictional first Thanksgiving? That piece talked about this peacekeeping chief who showed up at the first "Thanksgiving." The gathering was apparently not nearly as warm and merry as the story that was concocted centuries later and that kids now learn in school. But apparently Indians and settlers mingled peaceably, and the Indians reportedly showed at least an apparent interest in getting along. Needless to say, that didn't work out. The son of that chief, the one who attended the first Thanksgiving, his head stood on a spike outside a British fortress for many years.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 14, 2020, 11:06:35 pm ---Exactly. I know that much. I think some boys get stranded on a desert island or something and the book is about how quickly human civilization can break down into brutality and savagery or something like that.
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That's what I remember of it. Plus, one of the boys is nicknamed "Piggy."
serious crayons:
I guess the nature of the social breakdown in the book reminds me of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Are you all familiar with it, and if so did you know it's been pretty thoroughly debunked?
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