Explain how the author uses figurative language to describe youth and aging in the story “Koloman Running”

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.

Identify the theme of the story in your sentence

Boy. i guess i'm late.