Why do authors include societal issues in their stories? To display their disgust with the issue.
To display their support of the issue.
To persuade for the need for change.
To convince of the need for unity.

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.