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jessicamarie1495
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High School - 9th Grade

What happens at night while the boys are asleep (1st page of chapter 6) that has a big effect on them throughout the chapter?

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Posted by jessicamarie1495 on Monday March 9, 2009 at 4:19 AM and tagged with characters, details, lord of the flies, summary, william golding.

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  1. ladyvols1 Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

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    "Beast from the Air," is the title of  chapter six of "Lord of The Flies," and foreshadows what this chapter is about.  The boys have finally settled everyone down and they all go to sleep. There is some crying from the "littuns," but the boys don't hear the planes fighting "10 miles above their heads."  There is a huge explosion and "a corkscrew trail across the sky;"

    "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."

    This dead body of the pilot eventually lands in the rocks of the mountain and will indeed become a terror the boys have to deal with later in the chapter.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/flies/chapter-6-summary-analysis
    http://www.enotes.com/flies/characters
    http://www.enotes.com/flies/themes

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    Posted by ladyvols1 on Monday March 9, 2009 at 5:08 AM

  2. ittai
    ittai Student
    High School - 10th Grade

    A parachute lands and there is a dead body inside of a pilot that lands on some rocks.

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    Posted by ittai on Thursday August 27, 2009 at 8:23 AM

  3. ittai
    ittai Student
    High School - 10th Grade

    "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."

    This dead body of the pilot eventually lands in the rocks of the mountain and will indeed become a terror the boys have to deal with later in the chapter.

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    Posted by ittai on Thursday August 27, 2009 at 8:24 AM