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Treasure Island Argumentative Essay

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Treasure Island Argumentative Writing In this novel luck is a allie and servant of the Jim Hawkins and his friends. The pirates believe in bad luck, because good luck is scarce. They are very superstitious and will believe anything The english hope for luck. They are not superstitious, Yet luck is always on their side. The pirates in this novel rarely receive good luck. Billy Bones, The seafaring man at the Admiral Benbow, received the “Black Spot” or in other words a “curse.And then he died a few seconds later. The head of the pirates that raided the Admiral Benbow got run over by a horse. When Long John Silver and his men had gotten the stockade, They were starving and thirsty and one of them had malaria. The superstitious instincts

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