How Did 6 Boys Survive for 15 Months on This Remote Island?

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Writing: Kristina Murkett
Editing: Jack Stevens

[levi]

So you're telling me everyone has resisted the temptation to make a movie titled "Ata boys"?

[The_Horizon]

Sounds like a pretty sick book plot ngl

[Fourtytwo]

Lord of flies: "people will just go savage and kill each other in few months"
real life: "apes together strong"

[duckygibson]

It’s heartwarming to know that they refrained from fighting and even had a 4 hour break apart from others. They handled that better than any naked and afraid people

[canadianatheist]

Whats really crazy is that 5 of them managed to take care of the boy with a broken leg until it got better

[dannyzero]

They’re the ones who are worthy of using the phrase “When I was your age...”

[Crystal]

Definitely they have a "Me and the boys" memory

[kaamn]

The funniest part of _Lord of the Flies_ is that it was never meant to be a "oh, look how savage humans are when left ungoverned in their natural state, men are beasts, etc. etc.." William Golding was just so _sick_ of the huge amounts of 'British children go on adventures elsewhere' books that were being published at the time, and was also sick of his students, who he despised as spoiled, horrible specimens of people, that he wrote the book as a response. Each character is based off a real life student of his and he definitely achieved his goal of scandalizing British society with the book's publication. Children, especially 'upstanding, ' wealthy British boys had never been portrayed as anything but genteel and sophisticated before this, so this was like the equivalent of something like _The Exorcist_ or Stephen King's _It_ in terms of literary backlash and secret admiration. It was only later on that this idea of him trying to showcase the true nature of humans came into being. He really wrote the book because he was fed up with the literary trend of the era and thought his students were an example of how boarding schools and gentry at the time allowed their children to become cruel, horrible people without exercising any mediating force and how the upper class was letting their children go to shit. He really _shouldn't_ have been a teacher...

TLDR; Golding wrote _Lord of the Flies_ as a fuck you to his contemporaries and students, with each character specifically, _recognizably_ modeled after one of his students as an even bigger fuck you to them, their parents, and his peers because he was just so fed up with them.

[FastFates]

i read the lord of the flies but its WAAYYYY more violent than the real story

[SushiItzMe]

Imagine being stranded in a deserted island for 15 month, and back just to be put in a prison

[Jen-zkse]

Imagine the bond they share after going through this together...

[atzuras]

The grumpy owner of the boat deserves a recognition. He never lost the faith the boys were alive and he could sue them some day.

[morkmello]

Their are probably millions of stories like these and we will never know since most stories end in most likely death

[steveadams]

Somehow living on a deserted island doesn't sound too bad right now. 🤔

[senshiru]

This is a certified "me and the boys" moment

[heybeter]

Tonga as well as Samoa and many of those other Pacific Islands have beautiful cultures that emphasize community and working together for survival. That photo of the six boys where one is holding a guitar is so beautiful to me, and the raw happiness and joy on their faces is just so inspiring

[freshjalapeno_]

“They were drifting for 80 days, but luckily on the 9th day”

Thoughty2, 2020

[nef]

I think calling them "The Real Lord of the Flies" is absolutely perfect, since TLotF was written to claim that human nature was evil, but when it came down to the wire, and a bunch of kids were actually stranded on an island together, they showed everyone how a real group of kids would've acted if they needed each other to survive.

[dysonx]

Plot twist: The island acutally had to try to survive with 6 boys on it.

[cain]

I needed this story today. Often we get bogged down with how bad people can be. Sometimes we all need a story of hope and cooperation.