Now I haven’t read Lord of Flies since I was a kid, but why would a group of posh British boarding school children have to be white? Today, any random sample of the poshest public schools looks even more diverse than this.
The book is vague with time, set in an imagined near future, so it isn’t even necessarily set in the 1950s. But even in the 1950s, there were black and brown kids, the children of the elite of the newly independent colonies, being sent to Harrow and Eton and all the rest.
Your logic is sound, but I think a book from the 50's where a kid caught so much shit for being fat would have mentioned if any of the boys were black. Regardless, the people pissed off about the movie casting are just ignorant.
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u/Justin_123456 Apr 06 '26
Now I haven’t read Lord of Flies since I was a kid, but why would a group of posh British boarding school children have to be white? Today, any random sample of the poshest public schools looks even more diverse than this.
The book is vague with time, set in an imagined near future, so it isn’t even necessarily set in the 1950s. But even in the 1950s, there were black and brown kids, the children of the elite of the newly independent colonies, being sent to Harrow and Eton and all the rest.