“Good literature substitutes for experience which we have not ourselves lived
through.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I think that what Mr. Solzhenitsyn is saying is also kind of what Mr. Lewis was saying. Scince literature is real it substitutes for things we have not experienced. If we read a book about Mt. Everest and have not climbed it ourselves, we just did because we read somthing that is real and it substitued for the experienced we don't have.

This quote applies to Lord of the Flies. Even though I have never turned savage, killed someone, halucinated, or been trapped on an island, the book substituted for my lack of experiences.