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the plane crashed
Piggy suggests using the conch shell to call for the other boys who are stranded on the island.
Island Adventure
Brute obtusness refers to the ocean. "faced by the brute obtuseness fo the ocean." It means that the ocean doesn't care for the boys, that it could care less that they're stranded on the island.
The plane on which the boys were being evacuated crashed on the island during a storm and the adults (along with some of the boys) on board were killed.