1st quarter bank of questions

1.Why does the author put them on a island, why not anywhere else? 2.Why does he kill the pilot, leaving them with no adults? 3.Why are all the kids boys and there's no girls? Would it be different? 4.Why does Golding write so realistic and difficult words? 5.Why did he write the time of the book during World War 2? 6.Is the author trying to say something/send a message in the book? 7.Why does the author make the scar from the crash seem some what significant? 9.Where in the world did the plane crash? 10.What did the conch symbolize?