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learns the truth about his and the other boys' fear. He is killed due to his weakened state and
physical vulnerability in a society where physical strength and brutality are favored above
wisdom and logic. When reading his story from a disability studies or ableist perspective, one
gets the sense that Golding is commenting on attitudes towards disability and chronic illness at
the time his novel was published.
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