Category: Treasure Island

Imagery is paramount to Stevenson establishing the sense of adventure and awe typically found in adventure novels. Stevenson describes the setting in such detail to incite certain images in the readers mind such as the island has such a unique shape with harbors and hills with lush jungle among them and the characters, most prominently…

Literary Critic, Josh West, addresses how the themes in childrens literature are still significant in contemporary society, however they have altered with regard to their underlying intent and meaning. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1882, Treasure Island is one of the most well-known pieces of classic childrens literature to exist in our society, with…

Jim Hawkins- The books main narrator. He is a young boy who starts as timid and mostly insignificant but matures through the course of the novel. He ends up going on a solo adventure, rescuing the ship and saving Long John Silver. He also stands up to Silver, despite their relative ages and him being…

Using detailed examples from both Little Women and Treasure Island, compare and contrast the novels treatment of conformity and rebellion in young women and in young men. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the treatment of conformity and rebellion in young women in the novels Treasure Island and Little Women. Both novels…

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote ‘Treasure island’ in 1881. This written work shows common problems in that time – the strength of pirates. Most of the events of the book happen in the inn by the sea called ‘Admiral Benbow’ and in the treasure island. The story is told by a young boy named Jim Hawkins.…

Treasure Island, a quintessential time-out novel with the truly recommended virtually sincerely useful recommended resource of Robert Louis Stevenson, serialized in the journal Young Folks from October 1881 to January 1882 under the title The Sea-Cook; or, Treasure Island and posted in e e book structure in 1883. Although no longer the first about pirates,…