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The end of Chapter 9, "A View to a Death." Everything there but the act of violence.
And the adults, the supervision, and the threats. If all you're basing this on is that a group surrounded someone then you have failed to understand what Lord of the Flies was about.
Wait, you think that wasn't an inherently dangerous situation? You think that Phillips wasn't in imminent physical danger? Not to mention the nonstop egging on by BHI that got this whole mess started.
Let me give you a hint. I don't know how things work up there in northern Idaho, but in places such as Washington, DC, you have to be streetsmart against agitators such as those BHI men. Despite the idiotic advice that some people have offered, when you see provocateurs such as that, there's only one correct course of action: Leave them alone. The boys didn't do that. They were getting a thrill out of those idiots. And to be fair, when I watched the video, even I laughed at them a few times. But I got to do that from the safety of my residence. The boys didn't. The boys, being adolescents, did not show the proper judgment needed to get out of there before the situation got out of hand. Which it very nearly did. The chaperones with them should have made that choice for them. That is what chaperones are there to do. But they did not. That is where they failed. That safety net broke down, and we very nearly had ourselves the latest case of political violence.
Phillips was in no danger. None. Zip. Notta.
And while I live in North Idaho I have been all across this country. Both small towns that don't even make it on a map and in cities. I'm not ignorant of how things can go. There is no place in a public venue that is 100% safe. But that doesn't mean you have to hide at even the slightest disturbance. Hell, the only reason that we're hearing about this in the first place is because of MAGA hats and white religious males were at first thought to be the instigators. If it had just been the BHI and the NA's (as what happened originally) we never would have heard about this.