Change In Treasure Island

There are many forces behind a character’s physical, emotional, and mental change. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island character Long John Silver experiences life changing positive and negative events and changes his mind set over an intense and demanding period of time. His greed and personality, deception based off of greed, and end goal are the main influential forces that made Long John Silver the character that we have come to know him as.
Long John has an intricate personality, and within that personality is greed. In the beginning, people saw him as a friendly, intelligent man, but his true colors (or so it seemed) shown through when they arrived on the island and he was overpowered by his greed. Throughout the middle of the story, Silver’s need for the treasure brought him to killing innocent crew members (Stevenson 77, Ch. 14) and even saying that he would kill them (Stevenson 60, Ch. 11). “We want that treasure, and we’ll have it – that’s our point!” (Stevenson 106, Ch. 20) was said in honesty by him and he meant every word of it. Even though he was

That is what happened to Long John Silver. He was the captain of a group of mutineers (Stevenson 105, Ch. 20) and was friends with Jim Hawkins, the young cabin boy. Silver was also two faced. He seemed very kind and merry back in Bristol (Stevenson 43, Ch. 8) but turned deceptive and mysterious on the Hispaniola (Stevenson 57-60, Ch. 11). When he was just with his group of mutineers and he thought that no one else was listening, he suggested “Put ‘em ashore like maroons?” (Stevenson 60, Ch. 11). However, when he was talking to Jim, he acted like a different person (Stevenson 150, Ch. 28). This happened when Jim accidentally went into the enemy’s camp (which is Silver and the mutineer’s camp). He started sweet talking Jim because he wanted Jim to be on his side. Silver thought that Jim knew valuable information that he