“Sometimes they quarrelled, but whenever that happened they solved it by imposing a time-out.”
Six Tongan boys got stranded on ‘Ata in 1965. They built a garden, a gym and a badminton court, and they ran a duty roster. Nobody got murdered with a conch. Golding’s novel is fiction that got taught as human nature. The real experiment ran 15 months and came out the other way.