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    In the book Treasure Island, there are two main characters, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver, the pirate and leader of mutineers. They sound nothing alike in the beginning, the easily frightened Jim and the cunning and silver-tongued Long John Silver, but by the end of the story, the difference is not so profound as had been expected. This, including the fact that they are willing to do whatever it takes to get things done, even breaking a few rules. Jim Hawkins is the first character introduced

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    of the main people that kept Jim Hawkins and his crew alive and well. He was impacted by separation, food, and riches in the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The first force that changes Ben Gunn is separation. In the book three years before Jim got to the island Ben Gunn was marooned by his crew because he didn’t want to stop looking for the treasure. After a while he became crazy and insane. When Jim got there he was almost not understandable. The next force that changed

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    consistent- sometimes hard to differentiate, this can make a film lose a large amount of its emotional impact… Treasure Planet uses a unique method of intervening two separate integral thematic forces. Treasure Planet, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, is an animated science fiction retelling of the famous Treasure Island. We accompany a boy named Jim Hawkins on his journey to find Treasure Planet, a childhood dream that was forced by a fateful encounter with someone bearing a map. A map to the

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    pirates are self centered, clearly they need and depend on each other, otherwise it would be every man for himself. Why else would they still be together as a crew if they did not need each other? The men act as a crew, but as soon as they discover treasure or riches, they would without a doubt beat each other up to get to it. A reason the pirates do not have good relationships is because they are using each other for their own survival, rather than caring about one another’s

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    Themes Independency and Maturing Treasure Island is a story about adventure. However it encompasses the theme of Independency and maturing. Jim is a young boy who is in the middle of becoming a Independent and mature adult. He has developed throughout the adventure and has turned into a role model for the others around him. He is very courageous and has developed mature habits as the book progresses top the end. The uselessness of Wealth Treasure Island is the story of a voyage in which the pirates

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    Compare and contrast the depiction of fatherhoods in Little Women and Treasure Island. When discussing fatherhood in relation to both novels, we see that in both, the father is either primarily absent or irrelevant to the plot. The element of fatherhood comes from the characters designed to replace or substitute the absent or lost fathers. Treasure Island finds two figures available for Jim to form a paternal relationship, and the moral juxtaposition they present has as much to do with Jim growing

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    The main character in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is Jim Hawkins. Jim Hawkins is a young boy who has a lack of money and education. After an unruly guest and then his father die, Jim embarks on a journey to find an island that is supposedly full of treasure, but this journey will leave him scarred and changed forever. Jim is not a normal hero; he is simply full of luck to get out of certain situations. If the book had been from the ringleader of the pirate group on the ship, Long John

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    Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson The main character in the story is Jim Hawkins. He is a young boy who looks for adventure. He and a few experienced men search for Ben Gunn, and want to have him enlist in their cause. They steal the Hispanolia (a ship) and return it to the captain to which it rightfully belongs. 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

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    of tragic memories they had in their life. The Shack explains how Mackenzie Allen Philips loses faith in God as his childhood father dies of addiction to alcohol and as his youngest daughter Missy gets kidnapped and killed. This book compares to Treasure Island as Jim Hawkins acts rebellious once his father dies at a young age. II. The Shack Mack was broken as a kid because when his father died addicted to alcohol and as he grew he became a different person taking care of a family but also leaving

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    Treasure Island is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson, and directed by Byron Haskin in the movie “Treasure Island” (1950), the themes of Criminality and Exploration are evident throughout the book. Throughout this essay, I shall discuss about the importance of both themes and how they represented through the story of “Treasure Island”. The theme of Criminality is shown throughout the book when Billy Bones (the Captain) and Long John Silver (the antagonist) receives the Black Spot, which

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