Treasures

Finding money in an unexpected place always brings happiness to the finder; whether it is money or treasure, everyone strives to get it. In the novel, Treasure Island by Robert L. Stevenson, an old sea caption dies and Jim Hawkins discovers the captain’s chest full of valuable items, such as a treasure map. Upon finding the map, Jim Hawkins goes on an adventure to find the treasure. In another novel, Kidnapped, also by Robert L. Stevenson, David Balfour has returned to his hometown to obtain his

Evolution of the Character Jim in Stevenson's Treasure Island   Everyone has two sides to their personality. Sometimes one side is displayed and other times the opposite side is displayed. In 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson created, Treasure Island. While some of the characters in this novel are extremely witty, and courageous; others are full of animosity, deceit, and greed. In this novel the main character shows all of these characteristics. Jim Hawkins is introduced from the opening of the

The Coming of Age “Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.” (Francis Bacon) In Treasure Island the young boy Jim ventures away from home to help find a treasure on an island. As Jim losses his child like dreams into a role of a sailor pirate life he transitions from child to adult like. "I began to feel pretty desperate, for I felt altogether helpless" (Stevenson 53). Jim feels that he is inferior to the crew when they add him the

Coming to Terms With Evil in Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Treasure Island, is a fast-paced adventure tale about a boy developing into an adult and coming to terms with the presence of evil in the world. Jim Hawkins is first portrayed as a naïve and innocent child. Throughout his adventures with Long John Silver, he matures into a heroic young man. Before the pirates enter Jim's life he lives with his parents in a small secluded inn that they own and operate. Up to this

As soon as they get to Treasure Island, Jim and his comrades escape from the wrath of Silver and hide out in a bunker in the forest. Silver soon realizes this and declares war on Jim and his men. While exploring the forest, Jim comes across a man by the name of Ben Gunn. Ben is the only inhabitant of Treasure Island, and was marooned there three long years earlier. Ben decides to stay hidden in the woods while Jim

A Critical Analysis and Analogy between Amy’s and Jim’s Journey Abroad Crucial to Little Women and Treasure Island is Amy March’s and Jim Hawkins’ journey abroad which also shows the characters trajectory from innocence to maturity. Certainly, both novels belong to the sub-genre of bildungsroman which is by definition, a story that depicts a journey from childhood to maturity. In spite of their different goals and outcomes, it is possible to trace some sort of parallelism between both journeys as

Crucial to Little Women and Treasure Island is Amy March’s and Jim Hawkins’ journey abroad which also shows the characters trajectory from innocence to maturity. Certainly, both novels belong to the sub-genre of bildungsroman which is by definition, a story that depicts a journey from childhood to maturity. In spite of their different goals and outcomes, it is possible to trace some sort of parallelism between both journeys as they were indirectly intended to shape their characters in line with the

Louis Stevenson’s coming of age story, Treasure Island, originally published in 1883, was the base for many of those movies. Jim Hawkins a young boy who runs an inn along with his mother and father takes an unexpected turn when a pirate named Billy Bones comes barging in the inn one day. When the pirate suddenly dies Hawkins finds himself in possession of a valuable map that leads to a treasure beyond his imagination. Jim Hawkins sets sail in search of this treasure with a noble doctor, a trustworthy

The passage of a near half millennium has done much in the way of reshaping the familiar genre of pirate literature of today. One familiar with the courageous and somewhat ridiculous story lines of Pirates of the Caribbean, needs merely to briefly leaf through the poorly written, and perhaps even plagiarized 17th century pirate play The Sea Voyage to confirm this notion. However, while the works of this genre, like the world itself, has evolved immensely in the past four hundred plus years, an important

instruction and led the Israelites around Jericho’s walls until they came tumbling down. Uninvited, Esther came into King Nebuchadnezzar’s presence, asking him and Haman to dinner where she would eventually expose Haman’s evil plans and save the Jews. In Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, the main characters, Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins, do not measure up in comparison to this biblical standard of heroism. Therefore, neither Silver nor Jim are heroes in the biblical light of heroism. Jim Hawkins’