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Even aside from his skills as a story-teller Robert Louis Stevenson is an interesting personality .and lived in interesting times.\u00a0 But I think I’ll save the biographical comments for one of the later chapters of this series.\u00a0 I’ll just say that if he had never written another line, Treasure Island would still be enough to ensure his place in the literary pantheon.\u00a0 I’ll say right at the beginning that I consider it the finest boy’s adventure story ever written.\u00a0 I guess I’ve given away my conclusion but that’s too bad.<\/p>\n

The story is simple enough.\u00a0 Jim Hawkins is an English boy living in the 1700’s whose parents’ small seaside inn is visited by a mysterious old sailor whose bad character and eccentricities disturb the serenity of the place.\u00a0 And when his associates arrive to threaten him Jim and his mother are in fear of their lives.\u00a0 After a desperate struggle Jim is stunned to find that he has stumbled on a treasure map from the dread pirate Flint and with the help and backing of the local squire, John Trelawney and \u00a0his friend Dr. Livesey Jim finds himself on a treasure hunt on the good ship Hispaniola.<\/p>\n

But Trelawney unwisely picks his own crew and unknowingly allows a one-legged former pirate named Long John Silver to man the Hispaniola with himself and the rest of Captain Flint’s old crew.\u00a0 And the story chronicles the struggle between Jim, his friends and the intrepid Captain Smollett against this gang of cutthroats.\u00a0 But surprisingly, John Silver is by far the most interesting character and Stevenson somehow manages to make him an attractive villain.\u00a0 Without a doubt he is just as evil and murderous as the rest of the buccaneers but at the same time he is intelligent and even affable in his villainy.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the story Jim becomes the means by which the good characters manage to survive the long odds stacked against them.\u00a0 And it is these lucky breaks and courageous decisions that provide the pivot points to move the story along.\u00a0 Stevenson has managed to keep the plot taut and the story moves along nice and briskly.\u00a0 And all the characters, even the pirates are filled in very skillfully and moments of humor and pathos are well written.\u00a0 This book has been made into motion pictures several times and the 1934 version with Wallace Beery as Silver is extremely faithful to the book and quite enjoyable but I would recommend letting boys read or have read to them this book.\u00a0 It’s a fantastic story and will fire the imagination of any boy who hears it.<\/p>\n

Very highly recommended matey!\u00a0 Certain it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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