the title "beast in the water" is significant because in that chapter the boys think and discuss that the beast could have come from the sea.
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There is a extended metaphor that Golding uses throughout the novel to suggest that Jack is the symbol of dictatorship, Hitler most likely as the book was written just after WWII. The children are fearing a beast from the water, it's just a rumor however. Much like the British fearing the German U-Boats or "Beasts from the sea". When Jack (or some one does)suggests the beast can fly, "Beasts from the Air (or sky)"is the next chapter, possibly a reference to the London bombings?Yes and this will carry on to next chapter ___ The significance of the title is that the water represents the unknown territory. The boys do not go into the ocean, therefore, they do not know what is lurking in the water.
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The importance of Chapter 1's title is that the sound of the conch shell brings all the boys to the same spot
The imaginary beast that frightens all the boys stands for the primal instinct of savagery that exists within all human beings. The boys are afraid of the beast, but only Simon reaches the realization that they fear the beast because it exists within each of them. As the boys grow more savage, their belief in the beast grows stronger. By the end of the novel, the boys are leaving it sacrifices and treating it as a totemic god. The boys' behavior is what brings the beast into existence, so the more savagely the boys act, the more real the beast seems to become.
If you defeat the Canyon Beast in the valley area you will win the magic boots that allow you to walk on water. Then you can save the pixie and fight the Island beast.