When my oldest son was attending a private Christian high school, they were required to read Lord of the Flies and Night by Elie Wiesel Instead of these inversions, I recommend The Coral Island by RM Ballantyne, about three British boys who are stranded on an island but maintain
First look at a new live-action ‘LORD OF THE FLIES’ series. Written by ‘Adolescence’ co-creator Jack Thorne.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys I just learned last week that the Barbary Pirates raided for slaves in Iceland. That is nuts.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys What's your objection to _Lord of the Flies_? I read it in high school and liked it; maybe at the time I missed something significant.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Were the other stories too scary for you? Hiding from reality because you don't like it is stupid.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys I am no longer surprised that I never heard of either of these books. They sound interesting. One of my favorite stories is the "real life Lord of the Flies" which, as you might expect, worked out much better than the book.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Night = lies and silly low rent moralizing Lord of the Flies = moral inversion of what actually happened in real life
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@DEI4WhiteGuys There’s a good one called “My Struggle” about a down trodden artist trying to make his way in the big city, only to discover everything isn’t what it seems. He realizes the depravity and corruption of society. leading him to enter the political arena in hopes of restoring order.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Golding is like all the trash writers of today. Immoral and unable to understand moral people. They think normal civilized people are one to two steps away from becoming the villain. The schools teach it as a warning for a quick descent into fascism. What a joke of propaganda.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys I read both Lord of the Flies and Night by Elie Wiesel in high school, and tbh, I could care less about either of these fucking books. They bored me and I hated them. I'd rather they give kids books that would be more enjoyable instead of outright retarded/straight propaganda.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Same here. Those shitty “classics” were picked by female teachers and ruthlessly mocked and ridiculed by me at home so my son could see how ludicrous they were. There were many more shitty books on the list that also received ruthless mocking.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys If I remember the Barbary raids on Iceland took 2%- 4% of the total population of the Island at the time. It’s an incredible story
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Seeing both Lord of the Flies and The Coral Island, I see The Coral Island as aspirational, and Lord of the Flies as more introspective. Coral island is what we aspire to be, and Lord of the Flies is what we are tempted to become. Both are part of being human.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Good man! THIS is the sort of thing young Europeans need to learn about. If more people knew about the aggressions committed against our people in the past, they wouldn't be so easy to guilt trip.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Our kids love the swallows and amazons British kids dropped off on an island for the summer, good fun
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Robinson Crusoe is fantastic. It's fiction, but quite well done, with similar themes. Also there are several written accounts about the Tongan castaways from 1965, which is an inspiring story of survival when faced with fairly harsh adversity.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys The Coral Island is SOOOO much better than The Lord of the Flies, which set itself up as a commentary on The Coral Island.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys @EveKeneinan Live-action? Because there were cartoon versions? Hey, remember when there was a real life version of Lord of the Flies, but all the kids were perfectly fine during the entire ordeal, and it looked more like The Coral Island? "Realistic" versions are never real.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys The Coral Island is a favorite of mine, and is still on a shelf that other books have left. I think I’ll read it again, too.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Total silence on these sort of events during history class in Ireland. I wonder why? https://t.co/3LTfyX8E4R
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@DEI4WhiteGuys I just read the adventure of Thomas pellow, interesting reading given all this reparations talk lately
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@DEI4WhiteGuys The warwolf is also great story about survival In a Germany ravaged by the thirty years war.
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@DEI4WhiteGuys Just want to mention, The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson is a memoir of something that really happened. Not fiction.
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