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    I think everyone has a treasure! The story‚ “Treasure of Lemon Brown‚” is a story about an old man that had a special treasure. In the story‚ Lemon Brown told Greg what a treasure is and what his own treasure was. Lemon Brown taught him That a treasure is a special thing in life. One of the main characters was Lemon Brown. Lemon Brown was an old‚ poor man with rags as clothes. He lived in an old‚ abandoned building and got his clothes out of the nearest dumpster. In the story‚ When lemon Brown

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    Compare and contrast the depiction of fatherhoods in Little Women and Treasure Island. When discussing fatherhood in relation to both novels‚ we see that in both‚ the father is either primarily absent or irrelevant to the plot. The element of fatherhood comes from the characters designed to replace or substitute the absent or lost fathers. Treasure Island finds two figures available for Jim to form a paternal relationship‚ and the moral juxtaposition they present has as much to do with Jim growing

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    Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island: A Good Man Imagine yourself alone on an island. You’re scared‚ and the only thing you have for defense is a gun. Then‚ you see a man in the distance. People have told tales about cannibals before‚ and this person in the distance isn’t anyone you’ve seen before. What would you do? That is exactly the situation Jim Hawkins found himself in in the novel Treasure Island. Jim was brave enough to walk towards this man. Therefore‚ along with being brave‚ a good

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    Jim Hawkins’ development in Treasure Island Treasure Island by Robert Stevenson is an adventure story about a young man‚ Jim Hawkins‚ and his journey as he searches for treasure with pirates. Although only a child‚ Jim Hawkins matures and shows many signs of independency due to his experiences with pirates at sea throughout the novel. The first half of the novel demonstrates Jim’s reliance on the people around him‚ and what provokes him into maturing; the second half of the novel begins to show

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    Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in his book‚ Treasure Island‚ “Standing on the dock‚ I started talking to another man passing the time. He told me he was a former sailor‚ but now kept an inn in Bristol. Now that his health was not as good on land‚ he was looking for a job as a cook on a ship.” At this point in the book‚ Treasure Island‚ by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ Squire Trelawney is writing to Dr. Livesey about the person he hired to be the cook on the Hispaniola‚ the ship that Squire Trelawney‚ Dr

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    discovered but no matter how you look at it‚ you can’t make a mistake and not make a discovery. You can’t make a discovery without making a mistake. The “Goofs and Great Inventions” passage set proves this in each of the passages. In Lost Cities‚ Lost Treasure‚ Heinrich Schliemann was a trickster and a greedy man‚ but he still loved adventures and discovery. Frank Calvert did not have enough money to dig and discover in the part of Turkey that he owned and asked if Schliemann would help him. As it states

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    Treasure Island Treasure Island is an adventure tale that deals with greed and a central theme of good versus evil (bad guys versus good guys). “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other‚ or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.” (Matthew 6:24) Once the main character Jim Hawkins leaves his boring life at the Inn‚ the book becomes very fast paced and more exciting which is due to the main characters sense of

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    My favorite British writer and his famous book ’Treasure Island’ My favorite famous British writer is Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland‚ in 1850. Robert went to Edinburgh University to study law. Later on he decided that he wanted to be a writer‚ not a lawyer. In his early 20s he became ill with a chest problem. He suffered from this for the rest of his life. He moved from place to place‚ trying to find a suitable climate. In 1880 Robert married an American

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    The passage contains the beginning events of chapter fifteen in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883). After eavesdropping on Long John Silver’s (the antagonist) planned mutiny‚ Jim Hawkins (the protagonist) flees from the area and encounters a wild-looking man named Ben Gunn who he befriends later on. Early nineteenth-century classic adventure stories encouraged boys to support‚ administer‚ or fight for the Empire (M.O. Grenby‚ 192). And so‚ the passage exhibits Jim’s initial transition

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    An Essay on how Jim Hawkins from Treasure Island has developed throughout the story Jim gets involved in the adventure because his parents own the Admiral Benbow inn where Billy Bones comes to stay. Jim retrieves the map of Treasure Island from Billy Bones and then becomes cabin boy on the Hispaniola. Jim becomes aware of Silver’s plot‚ informs his comrades‚ meets Ben Gunn‚ recaptures the Hispaniola‚ and then returns to Bristol with the treasure. In the first chapters‚ Jim is an easily frightened

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