Treasure Island Maturity Quotes

Maturity, being fully developed or full grown. This process happens to everybody at some point in their lives. Whether it comes from being around older peers or when people begin to state “You should act your age”. The time varies within people, but it eventually happens to everyone for the main character of Treasure Island happens to grow into a young adolescent not because he wants to but to survive the grasp of death. In the novel Treasure Island Jim Hawkins (main character) goes through a series of hardships to achieve his desire of an adventurous life. At first he doesn’t understand and is fairly careless, but because of traitors within the crew that was hired, an attempt at murder towards him and himself murdering, also boarding a ship …show more content…
He decides to venture to the ship to see it he can regain the Hispaniola. He boards the ship and meets a pirate half to death. The pirate, is named Israel Hands while inches from his life he says “ Bring me some brandy”. (237) Quickly Hawkins races to the cellar of the ship looking for brandy, he realized that almost all the liquor has been drunken. He finds alcohol and delivers it to Hands. Jim Hawkins names himself captain and Jim takes down the Jolly Roger flag (black flag with the skeleton) and throws it overboard and yells “God saw the save king! Said I, waving my cap: and there’s and an end to Captain Silver!”(239) This is where I believe that he has become and adult, started as a cabin boy to a captain, from a boy who was scared of a blind pirate to the captain. His growth is very visible at this point of the story and it surprises me how fast he came to be.The thought of a young boy with no courage to becoming the reason why he and his friends survive a mutiny from the other pirates and his friends the leader of the pirates. Treasure Island is a story about the growth of a young boy and his yearning for adventure and maturity, Jianqui Huang