A mysterious stranger called Billy Bones, who rents a room at the inn, warns Jim to keep a look out for a one legged man. One day, Billy is visited by a beggar named Blind Pew who gives him the black spot which is the mark of imminent death among pirate crews. After Blind Pew leaves, Billy collapses and dies.
Jim finds a map in Billy's sea chest just before Blind Pew returns with a band of evil pirates. Jim and his mother quickly hide before the pirates ransack the Inn looking for the map. Soldiers arrive and the pirates escape, except for Blind Pew who is accidentally trampled to death by the soldiers' horses. Jim takes the map to Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey who realize that it shows where Captain Flint, an evil and heartless pirate, has buried his stolen treasure. The Squire and the Doctor decide to go and find
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The pirates turn angrily on Silver and are just about to attack him when there is a shot from the woods that kills one of them. The Doctor and Ben Gunn then appear and the pirates run off, heading for the remaining long boat left from the Hispaniola.
Jim and his friends get there first and demolish the boat. At this point Ben Gunn reveals that he had dug up the treasure several years ago and it is now in his cave. Jim takes everyone to the Hispaniola and they transport the treasure from Ben's cave to her hold. Silver still claims to be on the Doctor's side and helps them at every opportunity. Finally they set sail and leave Treasure Island and the last couple of pirates behind. They first sail the Hispaniola to America to get more crewman and moor there for one night.
In the morning they discover that Silver and some of the treasure have disappeared. Finally they return home, the Captain makes a full recovery, Ben Gunn becomes a respectable citizen and Jim swears never to go chasing treasure again. No one ever hears of Long John Silver
From this critical analysis, I have experienced a new insight on Treasure Island. My idea of a quest before reading Gary Carey’s analysis was a rough adventure the protagonist forgoes only to obtain a treasure. Now, Carey has provided a further definition to the term quest. It is a tale of hardship, courage, and one’s place in the world. The quest story is often an analogy of the protagonist’s salvation and life’s purpose. I agree that Jim finds himself through the other characters as well as through perilous adventures.
forced to kill. It ended up that he was the last one left on the island except
the boys on the island finally catch a pig and get meat, the one hunter, and
Livesey devises the crafty plan of stalling the pirates by sending Ben Gunn to give the imitations of their dead leader, Captain Flint. He also comes up with the plan of sending the pirates on the chase to find the treasure. Livesey is not afraid of some action and bravely fires at the pirates at the site where the treasure is burried. He is willing to do the honorable thing, like providing medical attention to the wounded pirates, who are his enemies. He speaks tenderly to them and seems genuinely to care for their health. More than Captain Smollett or the naïve Squire Trelawney, Livesey represents the best of the civilized world of men. Despite his great achievements in the journey, however, Dr. Livesey is not very charismatic toward anyone. He does what is reasonable, practical, and ethical, in thought, but never acts spontaneously, as the pirates and Jim do constantly. Livesey thinks up the ingenious plans for the group, but only puts them into action if they are safe and foolproof. He gives the pirates the treasure map only when he knows it is useless to them. On the whole journey, Livesey never risks anything major, and therefore Jim sees him as a good and respectable
Along the river, Jim and Huck run across two scam artists who claim to be a runaway King and Duke. Their raft is overtaken by these two men who force Huck and Jim into their dangerous, yet comical scams. Their last scam proves t be too much of Huck. The King and Duke claim to be the brothers of a quite wealth, but conveniently deceased man. Because of their acclamation, the two men are guaranteed a large inheritance. However, when Huck falls for the beautiful heart and kindness of one of the dead man's nieces he can't imagine stealing the money form her. Huck tells the niece the whole story, and admits who the "brothers" really are. The King and Duke are eventually discovered by the town to be impersonators, and are tarred and feathered.
Ben Gunn is the character in the book that shows Jim Hawkins how to survive, provide spiritual guidance, and be proud of whom you are. Ben is a pirate that lives alone on Treasure Island. He was left there by the pirate crew he belonged to three years ago after he was unable to find the treasure. Ben is a survivor. He has been able to provide food and a home for himself since he was left alone. He is also a man of faith. Ben tells Jim, “I’m poor Ben Gunn, I am; and I haven’t spoke with a Christian these three years.” (15) Even though he has been alone he is relying on God to help him survive. Ben is content with his station in life. He does not need a title or friends to make him feel important and others realize this about him. One of the crew members, George Merry, says "Nobody minds Ben Gunn [...] dead or alive, nobody minds him" (32.30)...
The Oak Island Money Pit was discovered the summer of 1795 by Daniel McGinnis. He was drawn into the island by strange lights visible from his house. Upon his investigation, he comes across a block and tackle hung directly over a circular indentation on the island’s floor. Daniel, along with two of his friends John Smith and Anthony Vaughan started to dig out the bizarre pit. Their curiosity is due to that time period being the pinnacle of the “Golden Age of Piracy (Maritime Museum of the Atlantic).” In hopes of finding treasure, Daniel and his friends were the first of a long list of people to take-up the Oak Island Money Pit. After two attempts, their fascination grew stronger as they discover layers of man-made obstacles, giving them assurance that there is buried treasure. Unfortunately, the boys dug down 35 feet before defeat set in and they abandoned their excavation.
...im decides to tell Long John everything he did to try to ruin his plan to find the treasure he spares Jim’s life even though the other pirates want him dead. Long John also decides to stand by Jim even though he has a feeling his crew is going to take him out of his captain position. Jim shows a lot of courage and that he’s a man of his word when he is given the opportunity to run away but instead he decides to stay because he gave Long John his word that he will help him through his trial. Jim is taken to where the treasure is believed to be but when they dig up the area there was no treasure. The treasure is later discovered at site where Ben Gunn has hidden it. The reasons I mentioned earlier steers Jim in the right direction of the treasure because of him not trusting Long John but instead using his smarts and his very high maturity level to find the treasure.
Money, money, money, and the love of money is the root of all evil. Money, has led the characters of Treasure Island to kill, lie, cheat, and put themselves in great peril to acquire it. The Squire Trelawney, the good Doctor, and Jim really have no cause to go in the search of the fortune that they did not earn or place where it rest. Wealth, whether found, earned, or inherited does not automatically speak well of the owner. The test of one’s character should be more than economical success.
...naged to break Maynard’s sword. Against intense training and numbers the pirates were drawn back towards the front of the ship. Cornered Blackbeard desperately tried to attack but one of Maynard’s men stepped forward and slashed Teach across the neck badly wounded 7 more of Maynard’s crew stepped in and killed him the remaining pirates the surrendered. Those left on Blackbeard’s ship were captured by Maynard’s crew including the pirate that was planning to blow up the powder room and destroy the ship. Maynard reported that 8 of his men and 12 pirates were killed.
Huck decides that Jackson island would be a good place to go. He knows his way around the island, knows that almost nobody goes there, and it’s big enough to sustain him. The river is a huge part in the story as Twain uses it for a scene of “romance”. This is, and always will be a big part of Huck’s evolution into the archetypal hero. Once Huck arrives on the island, it is time for huck to truly find out his place in society, and find his own ways from society’s grasp. Just as Huck thinks he is alone on the island, it turns out that Jim has run away from his owner, Miss Watson. Huck actually goes up to Jim with a gun, until he realizes who he is. Jim is quite scared at the start, as he believes Huck is dead, so he thinks that this figure in front of him is Huck’s ghost. “Doan’ hurt me—don’t! I hain’t ever done no harm to a ghos’. I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for ‘em,”(Twain 41). Although Huck does have an opportunity to be like Tom here, and pretend he really is a ghost, the reader sees Huck resist the urge to be a jokester. Huck tells Jim immediately that he is not truly dead. Now the reader sees a Huck vs. society battle, while Jim is hesitant to tell Huck
the ship passes them by. Jack finally kills a pig, but Piggy criticizes him. In
One night, Huck and Tom sneak off at midnight to the town's graveyard, where they are planning to carry out a special ritual used to cure warts. Believers in superstition and folklore, the two expect the graveyard to be full of ghosts. After hearing voices approach them, the two boys hide in fear; the voices belong to Injun Joe the villainous savage, Muff Potter- the town drunk, and Dr. Robinson. The three men are grave robbing! Soon, a fight breaks out between Dr. Robinson and the two other men. As Dr. Robinson grabs a headboard and knocks the liquored Muff Potter into unconsciousness, Injun Joe grabs Muff's knife and stabs the doctor to death. The boys run away from the graveyard before they learn that Injun Joe is planning on framing Muff for the doctor's murder.
Upon overhearing that Miss Watson was planning on selling him to a new owner in New Orlans, Jim runs away from what was a content lifestyle. Jim provides friendship and in some way mentoring to Huck as he escapes his master and goes along with Huck in hopes of permanently getting out of his shackle of slavery and live peacefully with his wife and kids. Huck describes his reactions; “"Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom" (Twain 97). He is sometimes given the chance to make his own decisions, but in certain conditions, he experienced misfortune from his choices. Being a slave capitalist and sold through the livestock, Jim possesses some unique knowledge of the country’s stock market. However, he ends up losing what little amounts of cash he earned when his so-called bank goes bankrupt. He portrays his disappointment; ”I owns myself, en I 's wuth eight hund 'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn ' want no mo” (Twain 73). In another event that shows Jim’s rise from slave like actions are when Huck and Tom are playing a joke on him while he is sleeping. They silently put his hat in a tree so Jim would wake believing that "witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees
The king & the duke Fugitives that joined up with Huck and Jim on the raft. They posed themselves as a king and a duke and performed scandalous plays to rip people’s money off. They were later both tarred and feathered.