I remember hating Lord of the Flies so much when I read it in school and because of that I didnt read it at all (this has not changed, tell me to read a book and I still HATE doing it, let me find it on my own and I'm ALL about it - in other words, I'm where all good recommendations go to die). Then low and behold I had to write a paper about it and (the night before it was due) I was looking for a quote to use next thing I knew I'd read from that point on, finished it, and really liked it. AND the paper got written on time too.

You kind of tricked yourself into reading the assignment book, that's next level student haha.

LotF was my favorite book to teach. I will keep up the illusion that all my students loved reading it with me. But we played Survivor and you got to vote people off your island, so that was pretty fun.

That sounds incredibly fun! I sure do like it when our IC classes have interactive parts as well, good for posts and creative ways to approach the repetitive subjects (especially for the profs).

  

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Henry Berkwood what book??

I wanna play survivor and read Lord of the Flies! Although I don't see Bells getting behind killing people off in her classes.

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Henry Berkwood what book??

I wanna play survivor and read Lord of the Flies! Although I don't see Bells getting behind killing people off in her classes.

Wuthering Heights. XD I did not have a good time.

  

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Henry Berkwood what book??

I wanna play survivor and read Lord of the Flies! Although I don't see Bells getting behind killing people off in her classes.

Bells could take it more literally, earth magic-cultivated pollinator garden?

  

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Wuthering Heights. XD I did not have a good time.

Omph. I can see how that would happen. I would have hated Wuthering Heights if I read it in school too. But woe what a switch between books in the same class. That feels like a trauma in the making!

Millie Potts she technically already does this

  

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Millie Potts That would be funny.

I quite enjoyed reading it as an adult as more of a psychological horror as the boys porcipomorphosise™ the piggy character into an actual pig and turn to their most base instincts.

  

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LotF was my favorite book to teach. I will keep up the illusion that all my students loved reading it with me. But we played Survivor and you got to vote people off your island, so that was pretty fun.

I hated it as a student.

I hated it as a teacher.

But this seems like a fucking delightful activity so maybe I need to revisit >.>

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okay late to the LotF discussion but coming in with the hot take:

primarily focus on how none of this would have happened if it were girls that were stranded ruined that read.

is actually a quite valid takeaway from the book. Sorry your teacher got preachy over details but the book was a critique of the way boys' boarding schools were run and the socialization of young men at that period of time. The veneer of civility, look at us so refined and grand with our colonial empire, lords over the savages, paired with the actual savagery of their interactions and interpersonal relationships. If you kept the premise the same (place, time period etc) I don't think it could happen with girls because they were socialized differently and if you wrote the same plot it would feel unbelievable. Lord of the Flies works primarily because it is so shocking AND so believable in every breath.

Not to suggest that women in that era weren't also raised to be cruel but it manifested much differently and the social pressures on them were in opposite directions. If girls were stranded alone with no grownups it would have been hellish, but it wouldn't have been Lord of the Flies.

/haven't seen yellowjackets and probably won't because I generally don't tv so I have no real comments there but I imagine the fact that it's modern/future set does a lot of the lifting on that end

  

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