The story of Treasure Island was a novel written in the early 1880s by Robert Louis Stevenson and was published by a company in London known as Cassell and Company. The story was inspired by Robert’s step-son, Lloyd Osbourne, when he drew a treasure map with Robert. The map itself inspired Robert to make the story of a boy named Jim Hawkins and his adventure to the location of a long lost treasure that belonged to notorious pirate legend, Captain Flint. Flint and his treasure was inspired by a real life pirate legend known as William Kidd, whose treasure is said to be lost and still missing to this day. Treasure Island is a classic piece of literature due to the novel’s countless literature devices, references, action, and story moral. The
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The characters of the book were not elaborated one except for Long John Silver, Jim, and Benn Gunn. These three characters were the obvious main characters for the story, but hogged up all of the spotlight. This led to the rest of the crew as being bunched up and left with a singular characteristic of being the traditional pirate. The only member of the crew to be put as his own character of Israel Hands, but was soon killed by Jim Hawkins. The rest of the crew were just one big mob, never truly bringing together a fascinating plot except for the time they started a mutiny against Long John Silver, but was just done out of sheer greed for the treasure. It would have been a better story if the audience got to know more members of the crew and not just make the crew as a blob of characters. Doing this could have also led to more emotional attachments and gave a better hook on the stories instead of only giving character development to Jim, Silver, and …show more content…
The theme was a great driving factor of the story in terms of adventure and finding treasure, but the mutiny and rebellion gave the story the needed twist to keep the reader hooked. The influences for the book revealed a lot about why the book was written the way it was and gave the novel a touch of personality as it was made because of a father-son bonding moment. The only problem with the story itself were the characters and how they were mainly static characters except for the three main characters, who hardly did change, but did slightly. Despite the novel’s flaws, it was an overall great story that should be recommended to any young adult with a pirate or action
The characters of the book were not elaborated one except for Long John Silver, Jim, and Benn Gunn. These three characters were the obvious main characters for the story, but hogged up all of the spotlight. This led to the rest of the crew as being bunched up and left with a singular characteristic of being the traditional pirate. The only member of the crew to be put as his own character of Israel Hands, but was soon killed by Jim Hawkins. The rest of the crew were just one big mob, never truly bringing together a fascinating plot except for the time they started a mutiny against Long John Silver, but was just done out of sheer greed for the treasure. It would have been a better story if the audience got to know more members of the crew and not just make the crew as a blob of characters. Doing this could have also led to more emotional attachments and gave a better hook on the stories instead of only giving character development to Jim, Silver, and …show more content…
The theme was a great driving factor of the story in terms of adventure and finding treasure, but the mutiny and rebellion gave the story the needed twist to keep the reader hooked. The influences for the book revealed a lot about why the book was written the way it was and gave the novel a touch of personality as it was made because of a father-son bonding moment. The only problem with the story itself were the characters and how they were mainly static characters except for the three main characters, who hardly did change, but did slightly. Despite the novel’s flaws, it was an overall great story that should be recommended to any young adult with a pirate or action