In Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevens creates a diverse group of people, all with individual characteristics and backgrounds. A few of the more important characters in the book are Jim Hawkins, Doctor Livesey, Squire Trewlaney, Captain Smollet, Long John Silver, Ben Gun, and Billy Bones.
Jim Hawkins, who is also the narrator of the book, is a young boy who discovers a treasure map in the chest pocket of deceased Billy Bones, and accompanies the Doctor and Squire on the Treasure Island voyage.
Billy Bones was a strange former sea going pirate who lives in the inn that Jim Hawkins's parents own. He dies in the beginning of the book (the same week as Jim's bed ridden father) after receiving the "black spot."
Jim's father's doctor, Doctor Livesey, is the first Jim and his mother go to after escaping from their inn with the map after a group of pirates brake into it searching for Billy Bones, he and Squire Trelawney are the leaders in the treasure Island.
Squire Trelawney is a wealthy associate of the doctor. He is the next person to get the news of the map and he quickly arranges for their ship and crew.
Captain Smollet is the captain on the ships voyage and is wounded after the fighting brakes out between Long John Silver's Men and The remaining men under his command.
The ship's one legged cook, Long John Silver, was a former pirate under the command of Captain Flint and goes on the voyage with a crew of former co-sea men to try and steal the treasure that was left by their former captain.
Treasure Island begins in the sea side inn, the Admiral Benbow, of Jim Hawkins and his parents. One day a strange former sea faring man comes the inn and ends up staying there for the rest of his life. He comes with only a mysterious old trunk. Immediately following the death of Jim's father the strange man is given the "black spot" (which is never exactly explained in the book) by an odd visitor. Soon after his visitor departs the man dies. Jim and his mother go to village for help, but no one will return with them to help, so they go back alone. Back at the inn Jim finds the key to the man's trunk on a chain on his neck and a strange piece of paper in his pocket.
When Huck and Jim sink the boat they start to gather some valuables on the robbers boat. They noticed that everything that are taking is just almost everyday materials such as clothes, cigars, and a bunch of books. Huck and Jim bring their raft to the shore and stop and sleep in the woods for the night. When they were just sitting their Huck opened up one of the books and started to read it. As he was reading it, he thought of Widow Douglass and how she would be proud of Huck for reading. While reading the book, Huck also realizes a name in the book the name is Dauphin, and was told that he is out in America wandering around. But Jim just sits back and doesn’t believe what Huck is saying at all.
He gave Charlotte a dirk one of the first days she got on the ship. When Charlotte got bored she would wander around the ship. She met the crew along the ship. The names of the sailors were Dillingham,Grimes,Morgan,Barlow,Foley,Ewing,Fish, and Johnson. They were all pretty nice to her.
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
Fathers are men who help to shape and mold children, youth, and young adults into the adults they become. Some fathers are biological, but many are men that are introduced through daily interactions and occurrences. The father figure may have a positive or negative impact on the child. This is true with the character Jim Hawkins from Treasure Island. Many characters guide his growth throughout the book with good and bad traits. He looks for a father because his own father is not a factor in his life. He dies when Jim is a young child and does not seem to have a significant effect on Jim’s life. Ben Gunn, Dr. Livesey, and John Silver provide Jim with examples and characteristics he incorporates into the person he becomes. Jim, like many others, find father figures to identify with and pattern their own lives after whether it is a blood relative or a person they choose from their surroundings.
Huckleberry Finn, the son of a known drunk in town, is already able to look back at some exciting adventures and a chaotic and disobedient lifestyle. As he was taken under the wings of the widow Douglas. He lived in her nice house with the intentions of making him an acceptable figure of the american society. After three months Huckeberry Finn cannot take, living a high social life, full of annoying expectations, that he eventually leaves the town St. Petersburg. On his way to freedom and away of authority he gets to know Jim. A colored slave who also escaped from his owner because he was about to be sold to a new plantation owner. They become friends and start to head down the Mississippi river on a self-made raft. On which they experience a bunch crazy adventures, sometimes even dramatic ones. While on their trip Huck basically only experiences fraud, theft and lies as he runs into his father and a clever couple of swindlers. He soon notices that justice, faith and humanity is only presented as a camouflage. At the end of their travels Huckleberry Finn and Jim meet Tom Sawyer and eventually return back to St. Petersb...
Of the ten characters there are Justice Wargrave, who is a retired judge; Vera Claythorne, a governess or nanny; Philip Lombard, a retired mercenary soldier; Dr. Armstrong, a doctor; William Henry Blore, a former police inspector; Emily Brent, an old religious woman who married rich; Mr. Rodgers, the butler; Mrs. Rodgers, the cook/maid and Mr. Rodgers wife; Anthony Marston, a rich and handsome young man; and General McCarther, a former general of WWI. All of these people are invited to stay on the island, by the request of a millionaire who regrettably fails to appear wh...
One of the many ways Jim Hawkins tries to find the treasure is leaving his crew members to explore the island and try to find the treasure on his own. “I was so pleased at having given the slip to Long John, that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in.” (pg 59). Leaving Long John and the rest of his crew has made his journey easier and more relaxing. “I now felt for the first time the joy of exploration.”(pg 59). When faced with danger he was going to call help for from Long John his crew but his fear of Long John and his hunger to try to find the treasure allows him to stick with his plan. “I was within an ace of calling for help. But the mere fact that ...
Money, money, money, and the love of money is the root of all evil. Money, has led the characters of Treasure Island to kill, lie, cheat, and put themselves in great peril to acquire it. The Squire Trelawney, the good Doctor, and Jim really have no cause to go in the search of the fortune that they did not earn or place where it rest. Wealth, whether found, earned, or inherited does not automatically speak well of the owner. The test of one’s character should be more than economical success.
Huck Finn, a boy of about 12 years, was the son of the town drunk. Widow Douglas adopted him so that she could civilize him and raise him to be a gentleman. Huck did not like going to school, attending church or dressing up. Tom Sawyer, Ben Rogers, and Joe Harper were his friends at the local school. Huck and Tom found a treasure hidden by bank robbers and were allowed to keep six thousand dollars each, for themselves, as a reward.
Tom Sawyer, who had always been known as a trouble maker in the small town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He had played hooky, lied, cheated, and stole. So When he was out with his two friends, they decided that they wanted to be free, like the pirates they pretended to be. Both sides agree that Sawyer needed discipline, although they disagree that his aunt was doing her best to raise him.
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... decide to enter the cave. Meanwhile, Huckleberry Finn sees two men with a box and follows them. He hears Injun Joes “revenge” plan of killing Widow Douglas. He decides to tell the people about it and warn her. Later on, Tom and Becky are discovered to be missing in the caves; so all the men begin looking for them. Tom and Becky are too weak to call out to them though. Tom ends up seeing Injun Joe in a nearby passage in the cave. He later discovers a way out of the cave and he and Becky return home. When he returns, he informs them about Injun Joe, not wanting him to starve as Tom and Becky did. When the cave is unsealed, Injun Joe is found dead. Later, Tom and Huckleberry Finn return to look for the treasure and find over twelve thousand gold coins. They become rich and Huckleberry Finn was now under the protection of Widow Douglas and is part of Tom Sawyers gang.