The irony is that while the boys on the island struggle to build a society, the adults in the world the boys were fleeing are killing society. Also, the boys on the island, particularly those under Jack's leadership, are becoming increasingly less civilized and more brutal. The parachutist, a victim of war, represents the outside world and bringing proof of the Lord of the Flies' allegation that mankind is inherently evil; that each person has an evilness within himself. Golding felt that war was evil and uncivilized (his experience in the war probably led him to feel this way), so he poses the image of civilization (technology that produced the aircraft and thus the parachutist) against the incivility of warfare (the parachutist is dead because he was shot down by the enemy).
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