In R.L Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” there were three main forces that caused change. The deaths, constant movement and adventure, and rewards all caused Jim Hawkins to develop as a person and mature as his surroundings and environments changed. As Stevenson portrays in the novel, there are constant deaths surrounding Jim. When Bill dies, Jim is thrown into an adventure (18). And when Pew dies, Jim is brought into the plan of going to Treasure Island (Stevenson 28). Further on in the novel, where Jim had grown slightly, he snuck off to the ship and met Israel Hands. Hands had injured Jim and, while injured, Jim’s pistols went off and shot Israel (Stevenson 145). Even if it was not caused directly by him, death was all around Jim and influenced the way he saw the world, making him less …show more content…
When Jim escapes off the boat to go onto the island, his mindset starts to change almost immediately (Stevenson 73). As soon as he is on the land, Jim says, “But Silver, from the other boat, looked sharply over and called out to know if that were me; and from that moment I began to regret what I had done (Stevenson 73).” The reality had caught up to him, and Jim realized the mistake. After all the adventure and struggles were over, Jim was rewarded. Reward is a huge concept in R.L Stevenson’s book, because the whole reason for the adventure was to find the treasure hidden somewhere on Treasure Island. When Jim and the crew arrived at the cave, their adventure was nearly over (Stevenson 189). They had accomplished their goal, and it was Stevenson’s way of wrapping up the story. Even though reward was not as active as the other forces, it was the base goal and reason for Jim’s adventure, and cause of Jim’s
He risks his freedom to help the doctor save Tom’s life and help Huck successfully escape the Shepherdsons’. Jim shows his appreciation for Huck bringing him on this journey toward freedom by telling him he will never forget him for helping him and lying to protect his hope. On the other hand, Jim can be considered intelligent due to his belief in ghosts. But, he also posses great common sense in situations where he must protect others such as Huck. Just as Jesus Christ shed light on all things human, Jim put important aspects of his life on the line and when others so that for him, he shows how thankful he is through
...all along Jim was free but being the adventurous boy he is he wanted Jim to turn out and be a hero like the one’s he reads about. Tom knows Jim could have been freed multiple times if he didn’t put him up to all of the childish games. Jim had stayed by Tom’s when he almost died and would do anything for him but Tom couldn’t give Jim the same respect back. His foolishness behavior caused Jim more pain and almost didn’t get him freed. Jim was a father figure to both boys and he stood by Huck’s side since the beginning of the novel.
However, with the sighting of land, new worries and troubles are in the air. The pirates are not content with their leadership—a doctor, a wealthy man, and a weak captain. With land and mutiny in view, most of the crew heads to shore and lines are drawn for the standoff that is to come; Jim sided with the “leadership” and a few other faithful crew members, and the other side was the rest of the crew led by Long John Silver (an infamous pirate and the antagonist of the novel). With drawn lines and already many deaths, the first days were eventful and full of excitement. On Treasure Island, tensions were high as were the death rate and the number of those wounded.
Treasure Island has a very clear call to adventure near the start of the story in which Jim Hawkins uncovers his signal to cross the threshold. During the prologue of this novel, Jim and his mother finds a new customer visiting their inn. He was a retired pirate who carried a chest with him, he knew he was near death so he gave Jim the key to it. Inside the chest, Jim found a map to a place called Treasure Island where there was supposedly hidden loot. “Mother could there be treasure here? I mean it is a map to Treasure Island” (Stevenson 42). That is when Jim decided to step out of his ordinary world and accept the call to adventure. It was a decision that took courage and bravery, two characteristics that he maintains throughout the rest of the story. This part of the novel clearly shows the call to adventure that Jim Hawkins
Stevenson, R. (2009) ‘My first Book: ‘Treasure Island’’, in Montgomery H and Watson N (eds), Children’s Literature Classic Text and Contemporary Trends, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan in association with Open University
Jim takes the papers to Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelwaney in order to find out more about what this is . Both men realize that these papers are a treasure map that can lead them to the enormous riches that Captain Flint has stored. The Squire decides to find a ship and a crew to sail to the island. He meets Long John Silver, an intelligent, charismatic cook, who Trela...
Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island is a prime example of a dynamic character. Stevenson makes Jim
For the two months after Miss. Watson died Jim was a free man, but he wasn’t truly free until Tom told him that he had been set free in Miss. Watson’s will. He was still acted and was treated as though he was a runaway slave. Society determines your social status, the people around you are the ones who judge you and determine where you will fit into their social construct. People forced into slavery are only there because someone else put them there. Jim was free the moment he ran away. He may have been a wanted man, but he was still a free man. He had the ability to make choices for himself and do as he pleased as soon as he walked away from his societal role as a slave.
soon as he boards the ship, Jim sees him as a nice, intelligent man. This all quickly changes as he ove...
Jim is a free man, and it is not fitting that he was taken back into slavery for a brief moment. “Him?...the runaway n*****? ‘Deed he hasn’t. They’ve got him back, safe and sound, and he’s in the cabin again, on bread and water, loaded with chains, till he’s claimed or sold!” (Twain 288). Aunt Sally explains that Jim is chained up in the cabin, even though he is a free man. This is not fair for him, and he does not deserve an inconclusive ending. When Jim is saying he will not leave without a doctor to fix up Tom, Huck explicates, “I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he’d say what he did say…” (Twain 275). Twain, making Huck say this, emphasizes the white and black personality barrier. While whites are good and trustworthy people, blacks are deemed as inferior and not trustworthy whatsoever. So even if Jim is white inside, he deserves an ending like he is white inside.
All children and teenagers will discover character traits and qualities that they want to possess from the adults they come into contact with. Jim Hawkins is no different. He uses the attributes he learns from Ben Gunn, Dr. Livesey, and John Silver to help mold him into the man he is becoming. Works Cited Stevenson, Robert. A. A. Treasure Island. City: Publisher, Year of Pub.
The transition into maturity is a process by which a boy adapts traits from male figures and chooses a moral identity. Jim Hawkins, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, begins an innocent boy, encased in a domestic setting. By loosing his father, Jim is able to utilize characteristics from other male characters, specifically Silver and Dr. Livesey, during his quest for maturity. Although Silver’s intensions seem genuine, the reader quickly discovers he lacks a consciousness, making his affection towards Jim untrustworthy. Thus, the qualities that Jim admires in Silver, which Silver uses for villainous endeavors, are adapted in Jim’s quest for maturity and enable him to develop a moral identity, courage, mental resolve, cleverness,
In Treasure Island the story is plagued by alcohol ruining plans or people’s lives because of extreme abuse of drugs and alcohol. The life of a pirate going on adventures is shown to be fun and exciting early on in the book, but soon after the the reader peruses about Billy Bones they discover that the life of a pirate is not what it is made out to be. The life of a pirate is full of sorrows and grief that most pirates drown in alcohol.
Jim Hawkins, encouraged by Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney, writes a testimony about his adventures at Treasure Island. Jim introduces the story by describing the encounter with the seafaring man, Billy Jones, who takes shelter at the inn Jim’s father runs-- Admiral Benbow. Billy hires Jim to keep an eye out for a one-legged sailor and Billy is intent on avoiding the latter. One day, a
“Treasure Island.”) Is an appropriate quote to describe the main character, Jim Hawkins. The descriptions of possible adventures shows that Jim is imaginative and not yet an adult. However, he compares the predicaments from his fantasy to reality and states that his actual life is worse than that of which included: wild and possibly predatory animals and island natives. So many unfortunate things happen to him. For example, the death of his father and lack of funds or help in his family's home. This motivates him to seek out the treasure on the island, not only for a means of providing financial aid for his mother and him, but also as a temporary escape from his current reality. He even feels slight remorse when his mother gets an apprentice to take his place in doing his daily duties, but goes anyway without a single mention of being homesick. The narrator is telling this story from the perspective of someone who has experienced what would happen, looking back upon the past. This would mean the last part of the quote also applies to what Jim would experience in addition to everything else. An element in the quote serves as foreshadowing. Jim at that point in time (when he was waiting for a letter from Dr. Livesey) had yet to undergo the moment where he would fulfill the common trope of "coming of age", or the climax. Would the climax be the mutiny within the first half of book? Or would it be the solutions and situations following the mutiny? The actual adventure that would be stranger and more tragic than those of his fantasy could be the point of which he matures or learns a valuable life lesson. How tragic or how strange this may be, at my point of reading, is still