Lord of the Flies

Ralph, Jack, and some other boys were looking for the beast even though some of them don't believe it exists. A few of the younger kids claimed they saw the beast around the forest. "We've seen the beast with our own eyes. No-we weren't asleep-" "It was furry. There was something moving behind its head-wings. The beast moved too-" ( Golding, 100). However the beast isn't really a beast. Someone landed into the island from a plane in a parachute. "There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. The changing winds of various altitudes took the figure where they would" ( Golding, 95). So the younger children have mistaken the figure in the parachute for a beast. They said something was moving behind its head and they thought it was wings, but it really was the parachute that hung behind its back which made it move around.