Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson is mainly about the Adventures of David Balfour: How He Was Kidnapped and Cast Away; His Sufferings in A Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; His Acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart And Other Notorious Highland Jacobites; His Suffering at the Hands of Uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. In this book, it was most important to have pride, but vanity was what they were proud of too. It's best to have pride, but vanity is not something to be proud of. I believe that the characters in the book felt more of vain than pride. Davie says, “I'm a Whig, or little better; but
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Pride is a feeling that makes your self proud and can benefit anyone from what comes out of it or what you learned from it. There wasn't much pride going on throughout the book. But there was one thing. Davie and Alan are proud of, their family names. Davie is happy to be a Whig. So is Alan, proud to be a highlander. Davie is a 17 year old teenage boy while Alan is a middle age adult. They don't care how many years apart from each other. They show pride and are proud to have those labeled family names as to staying by each other side at different age groups. As for Alan too, “for a Highlander is used to see great gentlefolk in great poverty;”
You see vanity throughout the book more often than seeing pride. Vanity in this book had to do with Davie stating as his name “David Balfour, …show more content…
Jason Stevens was once a selfish stubborn Man until the day Red Stevens died and gave him many tasks to achieve. “I could hear Jason’s angry voice as I retreated down the hall.” “Why couldn't he just leave me money like everybody else?” In the end of the book, Jason finally learns to give in and learn the right way of life. “As my great-nephew has shown himself to be responsible and able in every area of life, he will have sole control of this charitable trust fund which supports the Red Stevens Home for Boys..” In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own ultimate gift. Just like Kidnapped had many ups and downs with pride and vanity, so did Jason
Pride is a feeling that makes your self proud and can benefit anyone from what comes out of it or what you learned from it. There wasn't much pride going on throughout the book. But there was one thing. Davie and Alan are proud of, their family names. Davie is happy to be a Whig. So is Alan, proud to be a highlander. Davie is a 17 year old teenage boy while Alan is a middle age adult. They don't care how many years apart from each other. They show pride and are proud to have those labeled family names as to staying by each other side at different age groups. As for Alan too, “for a Highlander is used to see great gentlefolk in great poverty;”
You see vanity throughout the book more often than seeing pride. Vanity in this book had to do with Davie stating as his name “David Balfour, …show more content…
Jason Stevens was once a selfish stubborn Man until the day Red Stevens died and gave him many tasks to achieve. “I could hear Jason’s angry voice as I retreated down the hall.” “Why couldn't he just leave me money like everybody else?” In the end of the book, Jason finally learns to give in and learn the right way of life. “As my great-nephew has shown himself to be responsible and able in every area of life, he will have sole control of this charitable trust fund which supports the Red Stevens Home for Boys..” In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own ultimate gift. Just like Kidnapped had many ups and downs with pride and vanity, so did Jason