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- An old sea captain named Billy Bones dies in the inn after being presented with a black spot, or official pirate verdict of guilt or judgment. Jim is stirred to action by the spot and its mysterious, accurate portent of Billy’s death. Hastily, Jim and his mother unlock Billy’s sea chest, finding a logbook and map inside.
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Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys [1]) is an adventure and historical novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was published in 1883, and tells a story of " buccaneers and buried gold " set in the 1700s.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1883
From a hiding place, he witnesses Silver’s murder of a sailor who refuses to join the mutiny. Jim flees deeper into the heart of the island, where he encounters a half-crazed man named Ben Gunn. Ben had once served in Flint’s crew but was marooned on the island years earlier.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1883
At the urging of Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and others, a boy named Jim Hawkins records his story about Treasure Island. He omits the island’s exact location, as a portion of its treasure still remains buried there.
Treasure Island tells of Jim Hawkin’s boyhood adventure on a quest for buried treasure. The story opens at Jim’s father’s inn, the Admiral Benbow . A wild seaman, Billy Bones, comes to stay, bringing with him a large sea chest.
Treasure Island is a story of Jim Hawkins and an expenditure to bring back home the buried treasure from a faraway island. The story is narrated from Jim’s perspective, a young of about sixteen. R.L. Stevenson structured Treasure Island as a journal record kept by Jim at the request of Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey.
Jim describes how a large, old sailor arrives one day to his father's inn, the Admiral Benbow, and rents a room. Saying they can call him "the captain," he spends his stay watching the sea. He pays Jim a small amount of money to watch out for other seamen, especially a sailor with one leg.
Chapter 9. Summary. Finally, after much anticipation, Jim gets to board the Hispaniola, and meets Mr. Arrow, a old sailor who is the ship's mate. Soon after boarding, Jim realizes that all is not well between Mr. Trelawney and the captain of the ship, Captain Smollett.
