Rabu, 16 Desember 2015

Treasure Island's Summary

Robert Louis Stevenson told the story of Jim, a boy who taking care of the inn on the English seaside town with his father and his mother. One day there is a strange man named Bill (the pirate) came for stayed for several days on Jim’s inn. Bill fell ill and died there. Another pirate was come to searching for Bill precious thing. Jim and his mother escape with a number of coins and a pouch, Jim finds out that there is a treasure map hidden in the pouch.
Jim showed the map to his closest person that is Dr. Livesey. He and his friend Squire Trelawney decide to set sail to uncover the treasure and Jim also joined as the member crew there.
Squire and Livesey hire a number of men to accompanying them to sail the sea, including Long John Silver as the ship’s captain. On one time Jim who intuitively asleep on the barrel heard a conversation that Long John Silver plan to betrayed the ship’s member.
When they were reach the Treasure Island, Long John Silver used man to killed people who didn’t want to join with him. Jim ran away to the jungle and met the marooned man, he is Ben Gunn.
There’s war between Silver and the ship’s captain on the stockade, there’s a battle. Dr. Livesey went out to found Ben Gunn and get helped by him.
Jim sneaked out of the stockade and cut the ship loose, crashed it on the beach, securing it for the crew and killing a pirate who left on the ship. Silver explained that the captain and Livesey agreed to give the map and the stockade. Unfortunately when they arrived on the treasure place they found a big hole and they thought that someone else’s has dug it up before and hid the treasure.
Actually the treasure was moved by Ben Gunn. Jim, Livesey and Silver got the treasure and planned to go back to English. But Silver lost at the journey back to the England, Jim still has terrifying dreams of him for several months afterward.




The Characters of Treasure Island

Jim Hawkins                           : The son of Admiral Benbow Inn’s owner. Jim is impulsive and adventurous with the nature. He also brave, kind and know how to choose a wise decision.
Dr.David  Livesey                   : He is a brave doctor and the only one who dares to stand up to Bill at the Inn and tricked the pirates. He is also very principle.
Long John Silver                    : He is the dreaded one-legged pirate that Bill asks Jim to watch out for the beginning of the book. He was close to Jim. His charisma is usually enough to get anyone to like and follow him and he was very clever enough to escape imprisonment at the end of the book as the surviving crew sails back to England with the treasure.
Ben Gunn                               :  He was the marooned man who left on the island alone because he failed to help them find the treasure. He is a reformed pirate.
Pew                                         : A blind beggar and another pirate.
Black Dog                               : Billy Bone’s old shipmate and another pirate.
Squire John Trelawney         : A country squire and a wealthy man who finances the trip to Treasure Island.


Title            : Treasure Island
Author       : Robert Louis Stevenson
Language   : English
Genre         : Adventure Fiction Young Adult Literature
Publisher   : London, Cassel and Company
Year           : 1883
Pages         : 64 pages


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Comment

I think that this book was very educative that giving a moral value from this Treasure Book that we should remember.
1.      Be careful about the word that you saying because it will harm yourself.
2.      Honest can be a happiness key.
3.      Wealth and power can make blind someone’s soul.
4.      We will never know who our real friend is.

Suggested Book

1.    The Pirate Lord
2.    Pirate Fairy

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