The Toughest Decision Made By Jim Hawkins In Treasure Island

One of the most treacherous qualities that mankind contains is greed. Greed often consumes men into choosing the wrong path which leads to

In the two previously mentioned stories, the mens love for money was what compelled them to sell their posessions and go in search for their fortunes. These men wanted the money for themselves, not for the good of the world, and in the end, faced their demise.

Jim Hawkins is the son of an innkeeper in Bristol, England. An old captain named Billy Bones drank too much rum and had two strokes. Then, Jim and his mother unlock a sea chest, and found a journal and a map inside. He knew these documents would be valuable, and goes to Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney for advice. Dr. Livesey suggests that the map is for an island where a pirate named Captain Flint buried treasure. Trelawney then plans the expedition by buying a ship, and hiring the crew members, Long John Silver and Captain Smollett, who says most of the crew is untrustworthy. When the ship is sailing, all is well until Jim hears Silver’s plans for a mutiny. Jim tells the captain and other crew members about this.

How far will a person go to make money? Senator Albert Fall could have told you the answer. Fall had one reason for losing his integrity. His reason for losing his integrity was because he was greedy. He let his need for greed roam free and it destroyed his moral character. In addition to destroying his integrity, he also destroyed his friendship with United States President Warren G. Harding, and he destroyed people’s trust in him.

One way greed makes people think of only their own needs is shown throughout the story using foreshadowing. In this short story, a scarlet ibis, a big red bird, was sitting all alone in a tree. When Doodles family ran outside, they saw the bird falling out of the tree and died. Doodle and his family watched the bird break its neck. After, Doodle was devastated and decided to bury the bird. The author says “It tumbled down bumping through limbs of the bleeding tree and landing at our feet with a thud. Its long graceful neck jerked twice into an S.” (Hurst 5). The scarlet ibis is foreshadowing Doodle's death. Doodle had fallen all alone at the end of the story, just like the bird. Doodle wanted Brother to wait for him, but Brother didn't and left him behind. He let his

question, “Was he motivated by greed, played by the rich men who hoped to be made richer by a

Greed, one of the seven deadliest sins. Fighting through it is not without it’s challenges. The relationship between the protagonists is shown often breaking through the want of worldly possessions. To begin George does not get

Although the characters in these stories may recognize their excessive greed, they choose to ignore it which directly leads to their downfall. Although the characters in the story have more than enough to survive, they are still driven by the natural human tendency to want to better their lives. Primarily, the main character in “How Much

Jim Hawkins Character Analysis Different forces and change shape and change the Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, “Treasure Island.” The forces and change do the important job of helping the character evolve and develop. Jim is changed by forces such as death, discovery, and meeting others, which all play a major part in his change. All three of forces that caused Jim to change happened frequently throughout the novel. Death changed him because, if it was his own teammate who died, he would become bolder and eventually stand up for them to make sure there death was not pointless.

How far would you go to get what you want? When someone has their mind set on something, they will do anything to accomplish their desires. Money could be the prime factor of total wickedness if put in the wrong hands. However, In the Tale, money is revealed to reinforce the idea that greed is the root to all evil."Money is the root of all evil," is expressed by the plot, character and setting of The Pardoners Tale, and it show's that avarice can quickly turn people against one another.

When referencing back to the story one problem, in our present-day world, come into light; greed. When referring to greed, the idea looms around the subject of

The novel Treasure Island is told from the perspective of Jim Hawkins, a young and naïve teenage boy, who has a curiosity for adventure and treasure; however, by the end of the novel Hawkins concludes that “The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all I know, where Flint buried them; and certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island” (Stevenson 236). Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map, which leads to Skeleton Island and with the help of Squire Trelawney organizes voyage to the sought after treasure. The crew contains the famed Long John Silver who befriends young Jim Hawkins; however, Silver is later revealed to be the leader of a mutiny that will occur on the ship

How greed effected the mind. In the work, The Pardoners Tale, Three friends are sitting at a tavern enjoying a few early morning drinks. They soon hear a belling ringing which indicates that someone has died. Therefore, they make a pact that they will find and kill death. Which they come to find out is a very old man. He tells them “if it your design to find out Death, turn up this crooked way towards the grove, I left him there today under a tree”. However, they need a way to get the gold to town without people thinking they are thieves. Therefore, they are going to wait until nightfall to do so. They send in the youngest of the group to get some wine and bread to enjoy as they wait. As the young man goes into town, the two that stayed devised a plan to kill him while he is gone. On the other hand, the young man has a plan to poison the other’s wine. In the end they all die. So, because of gold all them go crazy and decide to kill each other and which in the end results in all them dying.

Money is a magnificent thing. However, money and our greed for money can cause us to do inhumane acts. Money has driven people to steal, lie, obtain money in immoral ways, and even to commit the act of murder. In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses the “whodunit” plot structure to convey how our greed for wealth drives us to perform horrible acts that, in the end, lead to a larger problem.

Jim Hawkins, the protagonist, is the primary narrator of the novel. He is the son of the owner of the Admiral Benbow inn. His connection to piracy commences in the beginning of his narrative with the “arrival of a mysterious old sailor named Bill[y] Bones at the Admiral Benbow” (Gale). From then on, Jim meets the other ship