Stevenson's brilliantly constructed adventure novel Treasure Island has remained a popular favorite for both children and adults. ... Up until that point, Stevenson's literary output had been uneven-Treasure Island marked the author's mastery of tone, pace, and vocabulary. The idea for the story initially began with a water-color map that Stevenson drew as part of an intricate adventure game for his stepson. ... Both Jim and Long John Silver are rescued from the enraged pirates and led to the treasure by Ben Gunn, a half-wild sailor who had been marooned on the island for many y...

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We even see an uncanny resemblance between the mutinies found in both stories, and the roles (or lack thereof) of women in each story. ... One similarity between the stories is that both "Robinson Crusoe" and "Treasure Island" have a lot of action involving the use of guns. ... In contrast, Jim's narration of "Treasure Island" often skips the tedious parts. ... By not letting his story get bogged down by all of the tedious details, Stevenson was able to maintain his hold on the reader's imagination and excitement for the story. ... Crusoe and Ben Gunn were both told by their parents...

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Those realities shows, which sprang first in the States, have today spread to the Old World and find their equivalents there: Loft Story, Ça va se savoir, l'Île de la Tentation (in France); Big Brother (in the United Kingdom); Gran Armado (in Spain) and so on Amongst those shows, one that has become popular worldwide, is the one where 16 castaways are isolated on a tropical island and have to survive during a certain period of time. ... For a period of 39 days, 16 castaways were marooned on a tropical island in the South China Sea (Pulau Tiga), with one ultimate goal to be the last s...

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William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a disturbing fable about how ordinary kids change to savagery when they are marooned on a deserted island. Golding's tale is about schoolboys from a private school who's plane crashes and they become shipwrecked and they swim to a deserted island where they must fend for themselves. ... Hatchet is a story about a kid named Brian and his fight for survival on an island all alone, unlike the children on the Lord of the Flies, Brian learns from his mistakes and makes a better life for himself. ...

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The story takes place in the small rustic town of St. ... Soon after the start of the story Tom meets Huckleberry Fin. ... This is the climax of the story. ... Treasure Island I have written a report on one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most popular books, Treasure Island. ... After many adventures on Treasure Island he returns to England with the treasure. ...

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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a short story about a hunter named Sanger Rainsford who is marooned on an island after accidentally falling off a yacht. ... After Rainford falls, he frantically swims to the nearest island in search of food and shelter. However this deserted island is not an ordinary island. ... Rainsford's hunting skills prove to be a necessity on the island. ... The story had some foreshadowing in it because Rainsford heard gunshots from an island when he was on the yacht and then discovered where they were coming from later on. ...

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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a short story about a hunter named Sanger Rainsford who is marooned on an island after accidentally falling off a yacht. ... After Rainford falls, he frantically swims to the nearest island in search of food and shelter. However this deserted island is not an ordinary island. ... Rainsford's hunting skills prove to be a necessity on the island. ... The story had some foreshadowing in it because Rainsford heard gunshots from an island when he was on the yacht and then discovered where they were coming from later on. ...

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Basically, most stories at the time were chronicles of wonderful, magical events, not even attempting to resemble human life at all. ... Any other way to develop the story would have angered or possibly insulted the reader. Defoe has a presumed divine intervention place Robinson on the island for two reasons: One. ... He was sent to the island because he is destined, it is his fate. ... At first we are fooled, for all that happens seems realistic enough, but as soon as Robinson is marooned on the island, the illusion is fading. ...

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The book Snow Falling on Cedars is set on a small island in the Pacific Northwest, off of the Washington coast. ... Ishmael lost his arm in the war, and he is the editor of the San Piedro Review, which is the island's newspaper. ... His boat ran out of power while he was out fishing, leaving him marooned in the middle of a shipping channel during dense fog. ... The authorities begin to investigate the case the next morning when Carl's boat is found adrift near the island. ... The book ends as Ishmael is typing up the story of Carl's death on his typewriter. ...

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When you step off the elevator into the first room of the exhibit "Making it in America" (located at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum), you are greeted by large, distinguished portraits standing tall and proud. ... They are mounted on patterned walls that are colors such as deep maroon, mint green, and lemon yellow. ... You get the sense that this is their story, you are looking at their personal belongings and seeing their journey of making it in America. ...

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In the book The Lord of the Flies, William Golding relates the story of a group of English school boys stranded on an island. The island paradise quickly collapses into a chaotic, horrible scene. ... The story itself is a parody of the classic British children's story Coral Island by R. ... In this story, three boys, Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin, find themselves marooned on an island. ... Do you see the story? ...

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Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. ... Golding's use of irony in the last chapter blurs the boundary between civilization and savagery and implies that the two are more closely connected than the story has illustrated. ... "Lord of the Flies" tells the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during a war. ... Although Golding's story is confined to the microcosm of a group of boys, it resounds with implications far beyond the bounds of the small island and exp...

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The land on which they were allowed to settle was a group of islands in the center of Lake Texcoco. On one of these islands the Aztecs founded the sacred city of Tenochtitlan and immediately built an altar to their patron god, Huitzilopochtli, God of War. As the city grew, a splinter group broke off and settled on a neighboring island, founding the city of Tlatelolco. ... The third limited this "western" area to all the lands beginning one hundred leagues west of the Cape Verde and Azores islands. ... Cozumel and the Yucatan Shortly after the fleet embarked, hurricane winds forced them far ...

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On the day the story begins, he is enjoying a pipe outside his front door when an old man with a long cloak and a staff drops by. ... He goes back to his island in the middle of the lake to get his "precious," a golden ring that turns the wearer invisible--the very ring that Bilbo had found earlier Unable to find the ring, Gollum suspects the hobbit of stealing it and runs at him in a rage. ...

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• Grade Level: High School