2 metaphors in chapter 2

This is the chapter where the boys decide they need to
build a fire on the mountain so that they can capture the attention of any ships that
might be passing by them. There are several metaphors that refer to the fire, flames and
logs that they use to make the fire. For example: "smoke on the mountain" and "platform
of forest" and "the grotesque dead thing" and "breeze was a river of sparks" and "beard
of flame" and "tree of sparks" - all of these apply to the fire or the materials that
they use to create the fire. There are other non-fire related metaphors, but these stand
out. Earlier, the little boy that is afraid of the "beastie" is referred to as "a shrimp
of a boy" and later in the chapter there is "the sun in the west was a drop of buring
gold".  If you read on towards the end of this chapter, you will see additional fire
metaphors - there is a simile that compares the fire to a "squirrel" but then
afterwards, this image is intensified with additional "squirrel" metaphors that compare
the smoke from the fire to a squirrel.