The Use Of Foreshadowing In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Billy Bones'

It’s the eighteenth century, there are cold blooded, money hungry, dishonest pirates and proper honest english men, both want treasure and will get it whatever the cost. Jim Hawkins, a young english man joins in this hunt for riches, because of the drunken Billy Bones who first introduced Jim to this world of pirates. Without the creation of Billy Bones, Jim would never learn about Long John Silver. After Billy Bones’ death Jim goes on a hunt for Treasure island with no other than Long John Silver, the very pirate Billy Bones tells Jim to look out for. When Jim and Long John reach the island, the way Jim describes it foreshadows that there will be trouble on the island. Robert Louis Stevenson very cleverly employs foreshadowing to introduce