In 1954,William Golding wrote a book about a bunch of boys going nuts when they were stranded on an island. But just over a decade after that fictional novel was published, it actually happened! And the real life boys behaved in a very different way to their fictional counterparts. This is an amazing story of survival, friendship and a little bit of luck!

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-mano-totau-survivor-story-shipwreck-tonga-boys-ata-island-peter-warner
https://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/programs/pacificbeat/pacific-reax-to-tongan-story/12246480?fbclid=IwAR3vQ1h4iuBn1V9itM5hiQ71vOXp6eR3wzmFIyngz7i8UMi0cPjO28Uc0VM
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-16/tongans-say-shipwreck-story-not-lord-of-the-flies-tale/12249028
https://globalvoices.org/2020/05/18/wheres-the-pacific-voice-in-the-viral-real-lord-of-the-flies-story/
https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/currently-history/blackbirding-new-zealands-shameful-role-in-the-pacific-islands-slave-trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBAta
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