In the beginning of chapter one, the children crashed into the jungle below them, once they had landed and gathered, they examined the area. They gathered on the beach, so they knew they were on coastline of some sort. They saw the jungle beyond the sand, and the great scar, which plowed through the jungle, like a plow into soft soil. The only other thing that they could see, was a large mountain, towering above the jungle and beach.
Jack, Ralph, and Piggy decide to climb the mountain to see if they can get any idea of they're location. One reaching the summit, and looking around, they see they are on a piece of land, surround by a great sea of water. This Island, must have been miles away from any other shores, as there was not a single other strip of land to be found. Other than the small detached rock, just of the tip of the island. “They had guessed before that this was an island: clambering among the pink rocks, with the sea on either side, and the crystal heights of air, they had known by some instinct that the sea lay on every side. But there seemed something more fitting in leaving the last word till they stood on the top, and could see a circular horizon of water."
This can relate to the earth, stuck in the middle of space, all alone, except the moon, a small distance from our surface. Much like the small rock, just a few meters from the beach. The water surrounding it like the space around the earth. As someone who would love to travel far into the reaches of space, this idea that the earth is alone, with nothing but empty space around it.
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