Lord of the Flies: Chapter 6

Plot

Chapter 6, Beast from Air, is the chapter when the pilot falls to the island. The boys mistake it for the beast because the breeze inflates the parachute occasionally causing it to seem like the rise and fall of the beast’s breath.

And Ralph prompts an expedition to the far side of the island, Castle Rock. Piggy and the littluns stay on the beach while the other boys go explore. After discovering that there is no beast there the boys stay to play for a while. Finally Ralph says that they boys need to go back to check on the fire.

On pages 102 and 103 it says, “ ‘There’s only- but of course! You remember? The tailend part, where the rocks are all piled up. I’ve been near there. The rock makes a sort of bridge. There’s only one way up.’ ‘And the thing might live there.’ All the assembly talked at once. ‘Quite! All right. That’s where we’ll look. If the beast isn’t there we’ll go up the mountain and look; and light the fire.’ “