The importance of Chapter 1's title is that the sound of the conch shell brings all the boys to the same spot
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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.
In chapter 1, they find a conch shell and piggy relizes that the conch could be used as a horn to call all the other boys on the island. With that, they blow into the conch and many boys come to the beach.
"In this chapter, Piggy's glasses are stolen by Jack . The Glasses are of great importance since it is only by them that fire can be created. At first , Ralph and Samneric think that Jack's raiding party came for the Conch but in reality , they came for the Glasses."
It is a good title because, Bilbo didnt not expect the dwarfs to come over and then soon enough there was so many people it turned into a party, so that's how it was an unexpected Party.
It is called The King of Shadows because William Shakespeare plays Oberon in this book in A Midsummer Night's Dream and that Oberon is called "king of shadows" in the play script. When Nat goes back in time to 1599 that is the play he is selected to perform in.