Why is it important that the boys got to the island after an "attack".

"Golding doesn't spell it out for us but we get the sense that there was a nuclear attack of some kind. Golding needed to get his boys onto an island without contact with adults to begin his social experiment."

Golding doesn't spell it out for us but we get the sense that there was a nuclear attack of some kind. Golding needed to get his boys onto an island without contact with adults to begin his social experiment."

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