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The Book Club

The Book Club: Lord of the Flies by William Golding with Lauren Chen

The Book Club

PragerU

Books, Arts

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In a world without consequences, are humans naturally good or is there darkness within us all? Lauren Chen sits with Michael Knowles to discuss the classic novel Lord of the Flies about a group of British schoolboys who become stranded on a deserted island. Free to behave however they please, the boys reject societal norms and devolve into depravity. If the human impulse for power and groupthink overtake reason, is there any hope for Western civilization?

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That way, you or your child can be educated

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and if they're ever marooned on a desert island

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will not descend into anarchy and savagery and kill each other.

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Here to help me describe that particular phenomenon is my friend Lauren Chen as we go through

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William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Lauren, thank you for being here. Thank you for

1:19.9

having me. I'm so excited to talk about this book. I had not read this book since I was the age of the kids in this book.

1:27.0

I was probably in seventh grade the last time I read it,

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and it's a very, very good book.

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Can you in 60 seconds or so just summarize what goes

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on sure happy to so Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of British

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schoolboys who in the midst of a nuclear war end up stranded on a deserted

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island and the boys quickly elect this one character Ralph to be their leader and

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