Treasure Island is an adventure novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. From reading the novel, I have learned how badly greed can cause people to shift their priorities. The book is separated into 6 parts, parts 1-6 respectively, it starts off with an old sailor calling himself “the captain” who comes to lodge at the admiral benbow inn. Paying the innkeeper’s son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for a one legged seaman. A seaman with intact legs shows up frightening Billy, who drinks entirely too much, into a stroke. Billy tells Jim that his former shipmates covet over a sea chest he obtained, after a visit from yet another man, Billy has another stroke and dies. Jim unlocks the …show more content…
Jim has impulsively joined the shore party and covertly witnessed Silver committing one of the murders; now, in fleeing, he encounters a half-crazed Englishman, Ben Gunn, who tells him he was marooned here and can help against the mutineers in return for passage home and part of the treasure. Meanwhile Smollett, Trelawney, and Livesey, along with Trelawney's three servants and one of the other hands, Abraham Gray, abandon the ship and come ashore to occupy a stockade. The men still on the ship, led by the coxswain Israel Hands, run up the pirate flag. One of Trelawney's servants and one of the pirates are killed in the fight to reach the stockade, and the ship's gun keeps up a barrage upon them, to no effect, until dark, when Jim finds the stockade and joins them. The next morning Silver appears under a flag of truce, offering terms that the captain refuses, and revealing that another pirate has been killed in the night (by Gunn, Jim realizes, although Silver does not). At Smollett's refusal to surrender the map, Silver threatens an attack, and, within a short while, the attack on the stockade is
Evan Davies Monkey Beach January 14 English 12 Ms. Neilson Throughout the novel "Monkey Beach," author Eden Robinson tells the story of a young Haisla woman named Lisamarie as she navigates the aftermath of several traumatic experiences in her Indigenous community of Kitamaat. Lisamarie's coping mechanisms and journey to find closure in dealing with her traumatic experiences demonstrate realistic responses to trauma that are faced by Indigenous communities across Canada, as well as the importance of reconciliation in finding closure in real-world Canadian Indigenous communities through healthy coping mechanisms. Through Lisamarie's coping mechanisms, Robinson highlights the realistic ways in which Indigenous communities respond to trauma,
Huck and Jim continue down the river and on one of Huck’s voyages alone he comes across two men begging to be let on the raft and Huck takes them down one mile to safety. The men do not know each other, but are in similar situations and after exchanging stories, the two men, professional con artists, decide to team up and trick Huck &
“What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger, as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.” (p.127) When Tom returned from his pirate adventures on the island, he was treated as a hero, because of the way he was assumed dead and returned during his own funeral. Younger boys looked up to him and boys his own age were jealous of him for it, and Tom greatly enjoyed the attention. “I done it!”
They immediately alert the police, but Jeddy's father is out of town so they have to talk to the only policeman in town, Charlie Pope. By the time that the Charlie gets to Jeddy's house and they're able to make it back to the beach, the body is gone. The next day Ruben and Jeddy decide to go to a retired fisherman named Tom Morrison’s house. When they get there they speak to Tom, who admits that he noticed the body and he stole a watch off of it.
Have you ever heard the story of Emmett Till? This story takes place in Greenwood Mississippi: the year 1955. It’s about an African American boy from Chicago named Emmet Till who was brutally murdered. The story includes the events surrounding the murder and the trial that occurs afterward. The main protagonist in this story is Hiram Hilburn, a teenager and acquaintance of Emmet Till.
Fausto Cercignani once said, "A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it." In The Lake by Natasha Preston, two girls, Esme and Kayla, promise to keep a secret from when they are about 9 years old at an old summer camp. They accidently set fire to the woods around their camp and not only were the trees burned but so was a little girl and that little girl wants revenge. They head back to that same summer camp ten years later and the secret they promised never to speak a word about was revealed and it was torturing them and the rest of the camp. The girl, Lillian, was painting harsh messages on walls, leaving dead animals in the food hall, and messing with the trails.
They sit in their canoe, hungry and tired. Then one night, they see a cabin as they are going by in the water. They sneak in through the window and go to sleep, since it is too dark to see anything. When they get up, they explore a dead body. Jim says, "It 's a dead man.
For instance, there is no discernible difference between the greed exhibited by Silver and Dr. Livesey. Both factions consisting of the pirates and the gentlemen are willing to risk the lives of themselves and others for mere material wealth. Jim is conscious of this fact and resents it as he is commanded to pack the gold that had just been obtained through bloodshed (Stevenson 100). Jim 's description of the coins reaffirm the treasure 's connection to death and decay. For example, the simile “bits of spider 's
Julia Shanley Overton English 11 Honors- Period 4A 10/25/15 Huckleberry Finn Argument Essay Jim, a trusted slave by the household of Widow Douglas, is also a very gullible one. He displays several examples of cockiness, foolishness, and is made out to be some kind of comedic relief in the beginning of the story. When Jim is introduced, he is misinterpreted as non realistic due to his vast unawareness. This is proven many times throughout the book to not be true. Jim is actually one of the most important leading roles in the story due to his countless positivity to make things out to be not as terrible as they seem to be.
Eventually, the con men sell Jim back into slavery, but luckily for Huck, they sell him to his
The Colonel went ashore but left orders for the Boston to tie up to the Maryland and see if they could pull her free. They contacted the Maryland and waited for high tide while the troops on the Maryland tossed baggage and other object overboard to lighten the steamer. The Boston tied up to the Maryland and tried to pull her free, but all was in vain. The Maryland wouldn’t budge from the bar. They could see that the Massachusetts troops were grimy as the whole deck along with the soldiers was covered in
Brock Moran Mrs. Hill Language Arts 3 1 May 2023 Characters Exhibiting Duty in Treasure Island Loyalty, responsibility, allegiance. Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure classic, Treasure Island, has been read by tens of thousands of people for over one hundred forty years. Young Jim Hawkins, a Bristol native, stumbles upon a treasure map. He meets loyal characters along the way, such as Doctor Livesy and Squire Trelawney, but also meets dishonest and cruel characters, like Long John Silver and Pew.
The protagonist in this story is Jim Hawkins, who is twelve or thirteen years old. On the beginning, he lives with his parents in a inn. He can be very courageous, like when he was gone back to the ship, when they were in Treasure Island. [quote: chapter 27, Pieces of Eight, page 250]: “I went below and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal and still bled freely, but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm. Then I looked around me, and as the ship was now, in a sense, my own, I began to think of clearing it from its last passenger—the dead man, O’Brien.
In the Book “Monkey Beach”, the author Eden Robinson tells the enchanting spiritual journey of a girl named Lisa. The spiritual presence in Lisa's life helped her subconsciously and consciously change her overall mindset as a person. The author effectively engages the reader and takes them on a journey with Lisa by showing how the spirits helped Lisa understand how she was aware of her surroundings mentally; how the spirits helped Lisa change her perspective on how she views herself and finally how Lisa came to the realization of how the spiritual presence in her life affects her. The spirits helped Lisa recognize her worth internally and while paying little attention to the little man’s visits, she was glad
Maynard displayed Blackbeard's "glowering head on the tip of the Pearl's bowsprit." None of the remaining pirates escaped, all being captured and hanged. Nor perhaps did Woodes Rogers himself escape this life of bloody violence, then he died in Fort Nassau in 1732 because of "mysterious