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
Annisa Sintyadevi Hadiyanti
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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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