Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice-intelligent, perverse, relentlessly self-extricating, and funny. Treasure Island is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson.Its a tale about a boy who has a treasure map and goes to an island to find the treasure - but the only problem is is that. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.

David Livesey Local physician and district magistrate Livesey is a minor narrator in Chapters 1618. Billy Bones (the captain) An old sailor a pirate. Jim is the novel’s protagonist and chief narrator. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?Ĭonvinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing. Jim Hawkins Twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy, an innkeeper’s son. When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper gift wrapper laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life.

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