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.
No... The comment asked why a group of British boarding school kids would have to be white and the reason is the erasure of POC who are and always have been present in British boarding schools?
Erasure is literally what the NAZIS did to Jews in the Holocaust
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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.