Lord of the Flies

What is the effect of this simile?

Chapter 1

....spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.

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This simile reinforces the strange and surreal place that the island is for the boys. It underlines the foreign landscape yet untouched or ruined by man.