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Pirate Treasure

The Real hero of Treasure island: Pirate or a small boy

Long John Silver is an old sailor cook, the leader of the pirates, and one of Jim's friends. This dynamic character has only one leg, and is usually accompanied by his parrot, Captain Flint, who hollers "Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Eight." Many critics claim that Long John Silver is the novel's real hero, and not Jim Hawkins - a small boy or Flint's treasure. Evidently, Robert Louis Stevenson agreed with this assessment, as he initially entitled this novel, "The Sea Cook."

The pirate's life at sea was in most cases easier — and surely a lot more fun, for those of a certain turn of mind — than that of navy crewmen or merchant sailors, but it was still hard and dangerous, requiring a young man's energy and fitness. The older pirates of Treasure Island, including Billy Bones, Pew, Tom Morgan, Long John Silver, and perhaps several others, in their fifties at most, had had their day in the late teens and early twenties of the century (Silver says he sailed with Edward England, who died shortly after 1720), and had either spent their shares of the loot taken from ships and towns or, no doubt infrequently in real life, had saved what they could. The chance to recover a large treasure, like the one Billy Bones' map leads to, would have been a dream come true for such men.

Robert Louis Stevenson paints this character much more vividly than any of the "good" or "bad" characters and Long John Silver is not "good" or "bad" but rather a composite of both. Because of his openness about his greediness and mercileness, his pursuit of the gold seems more justified than the greediness and evilness of the "good" characters. Of all the characters painted in Treasure Island, Long John Silver is the most vivid, most remembered, and most picturesque.

Jim Hawkins himself would not have been an unusual boy in the English eighteenth century, although he may seem to the twenty-first-century reader remarkably free from the normal responsibilities of a twelve- or thirteen-year-old. At the same time, an intelligent boy like Jim, with a man like Dr. Livesey to befriend him, may have had the opportunity to read adventure stories and see traveling actors perform. At thirteen or nearly so, he would have been considered a man in all but physical strength, and, given the prospect of going on a voyage like the one Squire Trelawney invites him to join he would likely have jumped at the chance — probably the only one he would get in his lifetime.

Treasure Island comparable to Anime?

While reading Treasure Island and I also read a lot of other things on the side, one of the things that is read is manga, the japanese comic book. One manga series is titles One Piece, which is a pirate series. One character Luffy decides to become a pirate in order to find the legendary One Piece treasure after being influenced by another famous pirate. Along the way he meets and finds people who are also interested in finding the treasure too. It reminds me of Treasure Island because some of the habits that the characters have in Treasure Island such as drinking and having that give them problems also give problems to the crew in this show. Like how Billy Bones eventually having a stroke after drinking so much, but then told not to drink or he'll die like one of the characters in One Piece. One character Zolo, is a swordsman,one of his habits is that he often finds himself getting lost after being told sometimes not to go anywhere, and ends up in a situation that causes the crew to have to get into fights with a other gangs and the navy. Another symbol is the ship in both stories, the Hispaniola is very important to Jim Hawkins like how the Going Merry is to Luffy and their crew. After extensive damage to the ship which actually had its own spirit, it was given a viking funeral symbolizing the relationship between the crew and their ship. Another topic that reminds me of Treasure Island is that the crew can find itself in fights against random people that starts a bigger conflict. Everyone now and then, the crew can expect itself to fight other people, if one of their crew is harmed, they will fly into a fury and fight the enemy head on. That kind of teamwork, while everyone trying to achieve their dreams connects me to Treasure Island.

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The Mysterious Cove: Treasure Island

Have you ever met a real pirate? Here are some. They don't get much more real than Billy Bones, Black Dog, Blind Pew, Israel Hands ... oh! And Long John Silver-the pirate of pirates.

       Well, alright, this isn't a true story, but the characters do seem to leap out of the pages alive, armed to the teeth and ready to go treasure hunting. The characters are not stereotyped and unrealistic, but are so skillfully portrayed that they live for us in our imagination. But I found, as I read this book, that although pirates can be murderous and treacherous, they can also be cowardly, superstitious, and easily led. 

        ‘Treasure Island’ is a brilliant adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale about pirates and buried gold – the treasure. Jim Hawkins, the main protagonist and his mother and father run an inn called the 'Admiral Benbow.' One day an old sea dog (drunken seaman) comes in and tells Jim to warn him if a sea-faring man with one leg passes by through their inn. Then, one day an old blind beggar comes in and gives the sea dog the 'black spot.' Soon Jim loses his father and finds himself running for his life from the beggar's gang who are destroying the inn. Before he left, Jim takes the dead sea-dog's chest containing money and a treasure map. Along with some friends and a crew of sea men Jim sets out for Treasure Island. 

      Once on the island, the conflict grows and lot of stuffs start to happen-the finding of a wild man, a rebellion, missing treasure, and a few evil plots. Will Jim find the treasure before the pirates?   This question remains as I move on through the story plot. It is also interesting to know how a bottle of rum and the desire for treasure leads the voyage of the pirates to a mysterious island.