Summary Jim opens Chapter 22 (“How My Sea Adventure Began”) by describing the casualties of the recent action. Five of the pirates are dead, a sixth so badly wounded that he dies despite Dr. Livesey’s efforts to save him, and Hunter — with a fractured skull and broken ribs — […]
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Summary In the first chapter of the novel’s fourth part (“Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned”), and in the two chapters that follow, Dr. Livesey is the narrator, relating the experiences of Trelawney’s group that take place during Jim’s separation from it. On board the ship […]
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Summary In Chapter 13 (“How My Shore Adventure Began”) Jim recalls waking in the morning to find the ship becalmed southeast of what he now begins to call Treasure Island, a place of dismal-looking woods and oddly shaped hills, whose appearance he finds unpleasant. There is no wind, so the […]
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Summary As Chapter 7 (“I Go to Bristol”) begins, Jim is staying at the squire’s Hall for his protection and that of the map, while Dr. Livesey is in London to arrange for someone to take over his medical practice and Squire Trelawney is in Bristol to buy and outfit […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Part II – The Sea Cook (Chapters 7–12)Summary and Analysis Part I – The Old Buccaneer (Chapters 1–6)
Summary The narrator, Jim Hawkins, begins the first chapter (“The Old Sea Dog at the Admiral Benbow”) by saying that he is writing this history at the request of Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and other gentlemen, leaving out nothing but the location of the island, where some treasure still remains. […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Part I – The Old Buccaneer (Chapters 1–6)Character List
Jim Hawkins Twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy, an innkeeper’s son. Jim is the novel’s protagonist and chief narrator. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins Jim’s parents. Billy Bones (“the captain”) An old sailor; a pirate. Dr. David Livesey Local physician and district magistrate; Livesey is a minor narrator in Chapters 16–18. Black Dog […]
Read more Character ListAbout Treasure Island
To encounter Treasure Island for the first time is a great and uncomplicated pleasure for a reader of any age. One of the classic adventure stories in English, published first in 1881, Stevenson’s novel transcends its time and genre and remains today not only a page-turner but also an engaging […]
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An old sailor, calling himself “the captain” but really called Billy Bones, comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the English coast during the mid 1700s, paying the innkeeper’s son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for “seafaring men.” One of these shows up, frightening […]
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