• The Coral Island. a 19th century Scottish boys-after-shipwreck tale, mentioned at the end of the novel by the naval officer. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies as a refutation of this childhood favorite of his.
• Other “adventure” books with boys, such as Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Roughing It
• Orwell’s Animal Farm, which also adopts allegory form to portray human society
• The Crucible, in which children spur a community into mob rule
• Robinsonn Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, and other stories of survival that would have been familiar both to Golding and to the boys of the novel
• LOST, Castaway, Gilligan's Island, and other film and television stories of island...
