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A review by lewisbooks
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
4.0
Personal Takeaways:
Confidence and charisma alone can allow you to influence people even if what you are saying isn't always true.
There is some pirate in all of us and not everything is either good or bad. You don't have to always toe the line to get results.
Notes on Books:
The book is a typical coming of age adventure. Jim Hawkins starts off young and innocent until he loses his dad and then he has to go on an adventure and pass many trials until he becomes a man.
The trials he faces are intially with stealing the map away from the inn his mother and father owned, then he reveals the plans of long john silver and the crew to betray them. He then boards the ship and kills hands whilst taking control of the ship. We see when he is captured by Long John Silver he has grown as he goes blow for blow with him intellectually to save his own life.
Something that amused me in the book was that pirates will break all laws to pursue their greed for treasure. Ironically though they still stick to and value the laws of the pirates.
Long John Silver-He is a very contradictory character. He is someone who inspires trust in people when the crew all think he is a fine mine yet he betrays them all for the treasure. He also has no morals, such as when he shoots Tom kills him and doesn't bad an eyelid. Yet he wants to save and cares for Jim. Despite only having one leg he maneouvers many obstalces through his ability to inspire trust and his way with words.
Confidence and charisma alone can allow you to influence people even if what you are saying isn't always true.
There is some pirate in all of us and not everything is either good or bad. You don't have to always toe the line to get results.
Notes on Books:
The book is a typical coming of age adventure. Jim Hawkins starts off young and innocent until he loses his dad and then he has to go on an adventure and pass many trials until he becomes a man.
The trials he faces are intially with stealing the map away from the inn his mother and father owned, then he reveals the plans of long john silver and the crew to betray them. He then boards the ship and kills hands whilst taking control of the ship. We see when he is captured by Long John Silver he has grown as he goes blow for blow with him intellectually to save his own life.
Something that amused me in the book was that pirates will break all laws to pursue their greed for treasure. Ironically though they still stick to and value the laws of the pirates.
Long John Silver-He is a very contradictory character. He is someone who inspires trust in people when the crew all think he is a fine mine yet he betrays them all for the treasure. He also has no morals, such as when he shoots Tom kills him and doesn't bad an eyelid. Yet he wants to save and cares for Jim. Despite only having one leg he maneouvers many obstalces through his ability to inspire trust and his way with words.