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=** Treasure Island **= =** By: Robert Louis Stevenson **=

Treasure Island is based all about Jim Hawkins in his "childhood" days or the way the book states it his "youthful adventures". The main goal in the book was for him to search and find his pirate treasure. When the book starts it talks about how a sailor payed Jim Hawkins to warn him if he sees a man with one leg. Eventually a man named Black Dog is in search for (the man who payed Jim) Billy Bones, this of course breaks into a fight where Black Dog runs away while leaving Billy Jones who fainted. It turns out that this man Billy Jones was a captain under a man named Flint who had a fortune and of course hidden. From here we see where this story goes on but just by Jim getting payed to warn someone he is now in search for a treasure which he had been hoping his whole life.
 * __Plot Overview:__**

Hawkins father passes away, but behind it all terrified of pirates coming after him and giving him the "black spot". A man named Pew comes into the bar and gives Bones a black spot and then a stroke immediately killing him. Jim goes through Bones chest and finds a map for Flint's treasure and some other necessities. Jim gathers a crew to board on the Hispaniola to help find the treasure. This crew contains Jim as the cabin boy, One-legged Long John, Silver as the cook, and then Silvers recommendations. The story goes on until the crew is all against each other where Silver murders some of the men in search for the treasure. Jim runs away to the island where the treasure is and meets a man under Flint’s ship and here then tells the story of the treasure. While Jim is on the island officers have a sea battle against the pirates. Later on Silver then asks Jim to become a crew of the pirates. Jim of course refuses the offer, and the pirates threaten him. To save his life he offers up the treasure map, when the pirates go looking for the treasure they find that the seven hundred thousand pounds of gold is missing. The pirates being fed into a trap Gunn and the doctor attack killing some and the rest fleeing. Gunn, the doctor, and Jim eventually then go off and return to the Hispaniola recognizing what has been learned from this treasure.


 * __Character List:__**
 * Jim Hawkins- Jim unlike any other pirate is almost the complete opposite beside the way they describe his physical look. He is thoughtful, and he knows what to do in a trouble situation. Losing his father and being in the action he grew to what he became in the end, a hero.


 * Dr. David Livesey- David was the doctor for Jim and his ship but also stood loyal to him throughout the book unlike the others who turned their back. The Doctor also shows the transformation from greed to good.


 * Long John Silver- John is the one legged pirate in this book. He is described as more as a villain but the book states also that he is "appealing, shrewd, and charming". He is a sailor also for Jim Hawkins.

1.) In chapter 3 Jim shares a quote “I’ll raise Cain", In the Bible there was a man named Cain who slayed his brother. He is trying to imply that he is going to cause trouble or come back at them.
 * __Important Quotations Explained:__**

2.) In chapter 2 Doc shares a quote "We'll have a look at the colour of your blood", back in these days bleeding was looked upon as a medical treatment.

3.) In chapter 10 one of the crews shares a quote “Tip us a stave", is a simple meaning but in much difference it means sing us a song.

1.) Money and Greed The money in this book or in other words gold is what everything revolves around. Since this is what everything revolves around you can see how there is also greed. This is proven because you see throughout the book how all these characters act foolishly on the way to find Flint's treasure. Captain Smollett in the novel is the only one who stays out of the "greed circle". For the search of this money many are killed. The buccaneers even take Jim's mother under custody to get the share of money. The greed in the book is the theme that takes all the pirates and characters and links them together as one big mess to put it in small words. Again Captain Smollett stays away from such evil.
 * __Themes__**

2.) The Journey to Adulthood Away from the greed and money the novel also is based around Jim's travel through life from an innocent boy to a grown up adventurer. This transformation is all about how he reacted and what he did throughout the book to other people and in the findings of the treasure. He learned that his greed for the money was taking him places that were not healthy for the rest of his life. So in making the choices he made, the adventures he took, and as a prize the riches he had overcome were all to make him a better man, adventurer, and last but not least a pirate.

3.) Rum Believe it or not rum is a part of the theme in this book but a lot of the battles and choices made revolved around rum just like the money and greed. In the beginning with Billy Bones at the inn drank too much and gave him many consequences with the buccaneers. Rum also leads to the death of one of the pirates named Arrow. This ended in a last battle of the Mutineers. Again Silver only consumes of what he knows will help him. In the end through all the madness and treachery was formed by too much drinking of the rum.