"There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew tail across the sky;then darkness again and stars. There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs".
The boys were sent off from England to escape from an unnamed nuclear war but that war has not entirely left them behind. The world of men still gives them signs, one of them being the dead pilot that parachutes down from the battle a ten miles height. The boys do not take this sign well and interpret the entangled figure bellowing in the wind as The Beast.
The pilot is a sign of the greater setting of Lord of the Flies. In Chapter 1 Piggy mentions that their homeland was destroyed by an atomic bomb and that it was the crux for their departure. Now in Chapter 6 we know that the war has not left them entirely and that it is in fact a World War (why else would Britts be fighting in the south Pacific?)
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