... not particularly happy, and the moment in which the officer encounters the boys is not one of untainted joy. The officer says that he is unable to understand how upstanding British lads could have acted with such poor form. Ironically, though, this "civilized" officer is himself part of an adult world in which violence and war go hand in hand with civilization ... possibly hide during the daytime. One of the littluns suggests that it hides in the sea-a proposition that terrifies the entire group. Not long after the meeting, some military planes engage in a battle high above the island. Th...

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