An Analysis Of Arthur Conan Doyle's Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13th, 1850 to his parents Thomas and Margaret Stevenson., he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stevenson studied civil engineering at Edinburgh University at age seventeen, he was expected to follow the same footsteps of his father Thomas, who was a civil engineer and designed lighthouses. Stevenson was never interested in civil engineering or designing lighthouses in his father's business, he decided to stop studying civil engineering and instead study law at Edinburgh University. In 1875, Robert Louis Stevenson believed his profession should be writing, with that he quit studying law and focused on writing. As Stevenson progressed in his life, he had to face a tragical challenge, he suffered from
Wilson criticizes the novel “excellent from end to end.” He said that Kidnapped has even more of the qualities proper to all true literature and kidnapped may have the longer lease of life as being an excellent and graphic sketch of the state of the Highlands after the last Jacobite insurrection.” Greg Wilson’s last critic on Kidnapped is that Kidnapped remains extraordinarily popular among modern readers both young and old.

Arthur Conan Doyle criticizes the novel in a good way. Doyle tells us that Kidnapped is an admirable piece of English, its well conceived , well told, striking at every turn with some novel situation , and some new combination of words. Doyle also mentions that Kidnapped may have the longer lease of life. Doyle’s criticism on the author is that Mr. Stevenson invariably sticks to his story and that Mr. Stevenson is too artistic to fall into
In this Novel the growth of David from a small boy to a courageous man is focused. David is a seventeen year old boy from Scotland with the nickname of “Davie.” David is a young boy who tragically lost his father and mother and who is now left alone with no parents. After being left alone, David becomes an orphan. David is then led into a house where his father lived in his childhood. David there meets his uncle Ebenezer ,“Is your father dead?” “I was so much surprised at this, that I could find no voice to answer, but stood staring” (Stevenson 23). Ebenezer first attempts to kill David and then kidnaps him. Uncle Ebenezer was cruel to David and treated him very harshly, David’s uncle strongly disliked David for coming into his life and interrupting him. Ebenezer is a very selfish uncle and envies David for being young and everything he does. In Kidnapped David for the first is exploring the world. Balfour is inexperienced and is frightened about never going out to the “real world.” David’s goal is running away from the torture of his uncle and not having experience of going out to the real world. David is blamed for a murder he did not commit, and his attempt is to escape from all his enemies, since he has become a victim of Captain of Hoseason and his Uncle Ebenezer. As David escapes he meets the other main character Alan Breck Stewart. They both come to meet each