You're implying Golding based it on experience on how unsupervised children really behave, but in fact he made it all up.

William Golding was my father's English teacher at school (prior to publication of Lord of the Flies). According to my father, when people talked to Golding at the time, it wasn't based on real children but it definitely was based on what he believed children would be capable of.

> [...] but it definitely was based on what he believed children would be capable of.

Also Known As "[...] but in fact he made it all up."