Johnny's Treasure Quotes

Jim, Ben Gunn, and Long John Silver are all overcome with a desire to search for the treasure and each is let down and unsatisfied by the end of their adventure. When Ben Gunn arrives on the island three years before Jim, he suggests to his crew that him and the “[b]oys…land and find… Flint’s treasure” (Stevenson 152). After living on the island for so many years Ben is now almost crazy and has been living in a cave all alone. His initial desire to find the treasure ends up with his captain and crew members leaving him behind on the island. His crew eventually gets fed up when their quest to find the treasure leaves them empty handed because of Ben’s poor navigation skills and annoying personality. Eventually, he finds the treasure just three …show more content…
The treasure map found by Jim earlier in the story represents the useless desire within most of the characters. Quote. Everyone that is associated with the treasure wants the map and will do anything to get it even kill for it. The blind man, Pew, destroys Jim’s inn, turns down money and will kill Jim and his mother just because the thought of getting his hands on the map is so much better than any fortune they can imagine. However, at the end of the novel the map has been useless all along. For the pirates it led them to an empty hole and disappointment. Their greediness got them nothing. For Jim, it was unsatisfactory and wasted his time with something he did not even truly desire. For Ben Gunn, it did not have any monetary value on an island with no society so it was useless to him. The map could also represent the desire for material objects over friends and co-contributors/workers. The skeleton pointer, another important symbol in the story, represents the amount of death and violence that has happened surrounding the treasure hunt. Embed. "Dear heart, but he died bad, did Flint!" (33). On their quest on the island, the pirates find a skeleton pointing down a path. They figure out it’s a clue to the treasure. They also figure out it’s a former crewmember. The pirates don’t even think twice about the man himself and show no grief. Seeing the skeleton of a man that was much like them gives the pirates a chance to think about what could be lost during the adventure but they disregard this and continue on. The empty treasure hole is a great representation of the dark hollowness the treasure has brought to the lives of everyone looking for it. Quote. When the pirates are digging an empty hole it is almost as if they are digging their own