Who Is The Protagonist In Treasure Island

Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, possesses an innocence and idealism as he sets off on a voyage for treasure; Jim fights against the Pirates to survive, leaving him with a new realistic knowledge and experience of the world. Jim first experiences the death of his father; then in the same time frame, he loses Billy Bones. After Billy Bones death, Jim discovers a treasure map, he, the doctor and the Squire set off to find the treasure. When Jim first meets Long John Silver, he appears as a “clean and pleasant-tempered landlord” (45). Jim has a clear image in his head of what a pirate looks like, and Long John Silver appears to be completely different. This reassures Jim's fears. Jim never sees what will occur after the

Buried treasure, eye patches, and walking the plank are all words and phrases that often appear in stories involving pirates. Tales about the voyages of pirates are often adventurous and riveting ones. It is very awe-inspiring to think about the daring lives those pirates once led. However, it might not be safe to assume that these stories are close to the truth or even based on genuine facts. In 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a book entitled Treasure Island, which in return would forever change the way people looked at the term "pirate." Due to this book there are several different movies that have been created to interpret the term pirate in different ways. Black Pirate, The Dancing Pirate, Sea Hawk, and Captain Blood include some

Ben Gunn is an old shipmate of Silver. Ben was left on the island to find the treasure for himself. Jim finds Ben once he’s on the island and decides to stick with him until he finds the loyalists. Ben wants to join the group of loyalists with Jim. He is determined to get home, instead of living in a cave on the island. At the end of the book when Jim and Silver get to the spot where the treasure is supposed to be, they found out that Ben Gunn had found it two months before they arrived on the island. This was greedy, because he kept all the treasure to himself the whole time everyone was on the island. The loyalists and the mutineers were fighting over a map that lead to nothing at all. Ben Gunn never told anyone about the treasure, not even Jim who stayed with him and tried to find a way to get him home. Ben’s greediness put Jim in danger, because Jim had to join sides with Silver and his crew, who were willing to lie and kill. This action put Jim in danger, even after Jim tried to help Ben out. Then after Ben had gotten his share of the money by the end of the book, he ended up spending it all within the three weeks of living a normal life again. “As for Ben Gunn, he got a thousand pounds, which he spent or lost in three weeks, or, to be exact, in nineteen days, for he was back begging on the twentieth” (Stevenson 195). Even though he kept this treasure to spend in the real world, he was back to where he

Ben is also a very peculiar character.  The audience first encounters him with the full knowledge that he is dead.  Ben is also the one figure that is able to move freely between the past and the present.  Because Ben represents that which Willy seeks, Willy feels that he can achieve his goal the same way that Ben did and so he believes that "opportunism, cheating and cruelty are success incarnate" (Smith).

Tom compensates Jim by giving him a bunch of money, and people start to treat Jim

In the book “After The First Death” Ben father the General push Ben to commit suicide. Do to the actions the General made Ben go throw in the hijacking. But Ben death could have been prevented. Only if Ben father would have shown he caryed about thing Ben did and made better choose on the day of the hijacking.

Treasure Island was an interesting book that I made lots of connections to. Treasure Island was a different type of book I have ever read before it had more of a Shakespeare like writing to it. I like that it always had a lot of detail, I made a mental map of the places all the characters were because there was so much detail. The connections I will talk about are some people connections, place connections, and then I will talk about what quote I thought summed up the book.

Ben, on the other hand, tends to drag on his stories and mumbles his words, which makes it difficult to completely understand his meaning or intent behind what he is

In part five of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Jim shows several different character traits. The first of these is recklessness. At the beginning of the section, Jim sets out to retake the Hispaniola, leaving the fortress extremely vulnerable. The next trait seen is courage. As reckless as his decision was, Jim’s choice to retake the Hispaniola was extremely courageous.

Ben is a member of Flint’s original crew. He was forced to live on the island for three years and survive on his own. He found Flint’s treasure, and then buried it. Trying to keep it away from the pirates that try to capture Jim and Sliver. The pirates think that Ben is unintelligent, but Jim and Silver know that’s he’s really a nice guy who is agile and quite smart. Ben returns with Jim and Sliver and the other crew

Question 2 : Why is Ben Gunn significant? Ben Gunn is a very significant person due to his background on why he was found on the island but how mannerly he was when he met John Silver. But that is not why he was so noticeable and significant. In the novel, on page 147, it states that Ben Gunn was welcome to stay on the ship if his buried treasure was found.(Stevenson) Question 3: How can you decide if a crew member was good

This is seen when Jim is paid a measly forty dollars for all the hardships he faced on his journey with Huck. Jim graciously accepts the payment believing that this was an overly generous amount saying,” I’uz gwineter be rich agin as I’s a stannin’ heah dis minute”(220). Jim appreciates this gesture and admires Huck for giving him a portion of his wealth as a payment for all the hardships Jim faced while traveling with Huck. In reality, Huck had over $6,000 and could have very easily payed Jim a larger sum of money to compensate for all the misdeeds that Huck and Tom did to Jim. The characters in the final scenes rushing to cover up their mistakes by freeing Jim and compensating him quickly as if to try to forgive and forget the mistakes made that directly impacted Jim in a negative way.

Though Treasure Island has a verity of characters using deception throughout the book unlike many children’s novels, I do not consider it strange. Nor do I believe emphasizing deception was done to teach children or adults anything. It is a fact of life that children, adults, friends, and strangers lie. All parties involved are also aware that everyone else lies every once in a while.

Gradually, Ben overall becomes sensitive to the environment. The sadness has overwhelmed him and left him a primitive form. He becomes impaired in the way that he relies on a caretaker and is unable to recapture the memories of himself after he’s gone. Once Ben becomes missing, people don’t search for him but instead call to ask where he has been. After about a week everyone in his life ceases to call or look. Annie is the only one to evoke the memories of Ben, the disabled man who became primitive

Following the death of his father, Jim took this opportunity to discover himself on the open sea. It was at this time that Jim would embark on a journey he would never forget. “I said good-bye to my mother and the cove where I had lived since I was born, and the dear old Admiral Benbow” (Stevenson 59-60).