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Treasure Island

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", By Mark Twain is a story told from the eyes of the young Tom Sawyer. The story takes place in the small rustic town of St. Petersburg Missouri. Tom Sawyer is the main character of the book. Tom is an imaginative young man who always seems to be getting into trouble. Tom is very adventurous, he never passes up a chance to play pirates, robbers, or soldiers. This book has multiple themes but the most important is knowing when its right to talk and tell the truth and when its better to be quiet or lie. At the beginning of the story Tom is introduced by climbing in his window after a long night of cavorting with his friends. Soon after the start of the story Tom meets Huckleberry Fin. Huck is a local outcast of society who likes to live by his own terms. Tom and Huck become good friends. One night the two boys go to the grave yard. While they are there they witness the murder of the town doctor, Mr. Robinson. The boys watched as Injun Joe kills the doctor and frames a drunk by the name of Muff Potter who just happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. The boys swear never to speak of this again. Soon after this Tom falls in love with his new neighbor, Becky Thatcher. Eventually the two become e


om the stockade and sneaks off without telling the others. He finds a boat that Ben Gun had told him he had hidden and sails out to the Hispaniola and cuts its morning ropes. He falls asleep in the boat exhausted. In the mooring he only just manages to escape from drowning, as the sea has become very rough. Luckily he spots the drifting Hispaniola and manages to board her. There are only two pirates on board and one of who has been killed in a drunken brawl by the other. After a terrifying fight Jim kills the last pirate and manages to steer the ship in a small cove. He then heads back to the stockade to rejoin his friends. The stockade is now in the hands of Silver and his mates.

The main characters of the story are Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones, Blind Pew, Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, Captain Flint, Long John Silver, Captain Smollett, and Ben Gunn. Jim Hawkins is a young man is his late twenties. He is a hansom man with blonde hair, brown eyes, big broad shoulders, and a very good sense of humor. He is a brave, curious, and out-going person. Jim is the hero of the book. It was Jim who finds the map and eventually saves everyone from the pirates. After many adventures on Treasure Island he returns to England with the treasure. Jim thought the adventure was quite scary, but he enjoyed it and would do it again. Billy Bones is a tall, strong, heavy, tan man. He has pigtails falling over his shoulders. He always wares the same soiled blue coat. He also has a scar on his face that's a bright white color. Billy plays a drunken, violent and yet terrified man who brings the map to Jim's Inn. He is given the Black Spot by Blind Pew and dies of a heart attack from terror. Blind Pew is plainly blind and uses a stick to help him walk in the right direction. He wares a great green shade over his eyes and nose. He is always hunched over, as if it was from age or weakness. He wares a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood, which made him appear positively deformed. Blind Pew plays an evil and sinister pirate who was blinded in a pirate attack. He is a cruel, scary and determined to get the map. He gives Billy Bones the Black Spot and is trampled to death by horses. Squire Trelawney is a he was a tall man, over six feet high, and broad in proportion. He had a bluff, rough-and-ready face. His eyebrows were very black and moved readily. They gave him a look of some temper, but he didn't have a bad one just a quick one. Squire's role in the story in the story is that he funds the secret treasure hunt, but due to his big mouth he lets he secret out, alerting Long John Silver and his pirate mates. He is brave, means well, but a little but stu!

s. The Squire and the Doctor decided to go and find the treasure and invite Jim to come along. In a few weeks the Squire has bought a ship called the Hispaniola and has hired a good crew headed by the admirable Captain Smollett. The cook is an one-legged man called Long John Silver whom everyone who admires. The ship sets sail and Captain Smollett immediately begins to have doubts about the trustworthiness of this crew- but no trouble develops. However, the night before they reach Treasure Island Jim over hears Silver and other members of the crew plotting to kill them all. He realizes that Silver and most of the crew are actually pirates and were once members of Captain's Flint's crew. Jim warns the doctor, Squire and the Captain about the evil plans that are afoot. The Captain sends most of the pirates ashore as a reward for arriving at the island. Jim decides at the last moment to go ashore with them and once ashore hide in the woods that cover the island.

The conflict is solved when silver and the pirates capture Jim. The problem of the story is solved when Jim and his friends finding the treasure. Then escaping off the island without getting attacked by the pirates. The only other problem is that Long John Silver took some of the treasure and disappeared. My opinion of the story is it was ve

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