Golding uses contrast at the beginning - "a sliver of moon" "the blue flowers" but actually it's a dead adult from the war crashing into the island.
Piggy wanted a sign from the adults that they weren't bad when actually he got a sign that they are becasue another adult has killed this one.
The boys completely misinterprete the beast - they imagine it has claws and growls or hunts - however the BEAST IS actually a HUMAN - this is what Golding is trying to say through the boys.
"'Conch! Conch!' shouted Jack, 'we don't need the conch any more'" - Jack is trying to destroy democracy through trying to get rid of the conch
"'Sit down' ... he licked his lips and remained standing" - Jack is now openly challenging Ralph - notice the escalation here.
"Simon thought of the beast, there rose before him his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick" - it is heroic because it was fighting for it's country, but sick because it has done bad things.
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