Treasure Island Essay, Research Paper
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born into a
family of Scottish lighthouse engineers. Because he suffered
from tuberculosis as a child, his education was somewhat
neglected. However, he did study engineering and later became
a lawyer–both to please his parents–but what he really wanted
to do was write. He never practiced law, but rather worked at
establishing himself in print. It took several years before his
work was recognized. He wrote Treasure Island while receiving
medical treatment in Davos, Switzerland. He later spent some
time in America and eventually moved to Samoa, where he died
suddenly
Treasure Island is a story about a young man named Jim
that has been asked to write down the whole particulars about
Treasure Island,from the beginning ,to the end,keeping
nothing back but the bearings of Treasure island. Jim lived
with his parents at the Admiral Benbow, it was an inn and a
old pirate by the name of Billy Bones stayed there, he was
mean and grouchy. One day he died and when Jim and his
mom went to his room to collect his stuff, and get their money
they found a map with all his things.
Jim told Dr. Livesey and Mr. Trelawney went and acquired
them a ship by the name of the Hi
put a crew together with the help of Long John Silver who was
a cook. When they got them all together they set sail to find
the treasure. In the beginning everybody did just like they
were supposed o. They all did their chores with out
complaining. Jim helped out a lot and Long John seemed to
like Jim a lot.
One day when Jim went to get an apple out of the apple
barrel, he heard Long John Silver and another shipmate
talking about what they were going to do when they got to the
island that the treasure was on. They were going to take over
and keep the treasure for themselves. When Jim heard it he
ran and told Dr. Livesay and Mr. Trelawney. Now that they
were warned, they tried to get all the one that were on their
side together. Once the island was spotted, the crew didn?t
want to do anything anymore, it was like they were just
waiting so they could get the treasure and that was it.
On the island fighting began among the crew of the
Hispanolia, Long Johns crew against Jim and his crew. Jims
men were outnumbered from the start but held on. They
fought hard and a lot of good men died. While on the island,
Jim met a man by the name of Benn Gunn. He helped Jim and
the crew a lot. At first Jim did?t know who he could trust.