Context of the lord of the flies.

The Lord of the Flies is set in the time of world war two. We know this because children are being evacuated in a war situation by means of a plane.  In World War One, people were not evacuated as much and certainly not in planes. in this story, some children have been evacuated to a safer place. They are traveling via Gibraltar and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). On the way they are hit by an enemy plane. [quote] "we was attacked!". The plane is most likely an Italian plane as Ethiopia was under attack from the Italians in World War Two. The "tube"has been dropped, creating a "scar", and the plane has flown off in flames along with the only grownups. [quote] "He looked up and down the scar. "and this what the tube done". The children have fallen down onto a tropical island that turns out be not all that it seems. the island was [quote] "roughly boat shaped.....on either side rocks,cliffs, tree-tops and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent, tree clad with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail. There, where the island petered out into the water, was another island; a rock almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold pink bastion". And so, a group of boys are trapped on a tropical island and have to survive on their own.