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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I first read Treasure Island island in fourth grade. And I grew frustrated with the nautical terminology. No doubt I was too young for the story.
In sixth grade, I tried again. And failed again. 2 years of wisdom were not enough to get past those darn ships. Nothing was stopping me from using a dictionary to decipher each arcane sentence. But honestly? That was too much. Reading was only fun when it wasn't homework. And nautical dictionaries made Treasures Island feel like one big homework assignment.
The story was one of those pistachios with the shell sealed shut. I'm sure there was something delicious inside, but I could not find out what was inside. Maybe I wasn't smart enough to understand the book.
And now, I'm 27, and honestly? The seaman vocabulary is still indecipherable. The intervening 15 years have done little to help my boat-based understanding. It seems that the young readers of the 1890s were fluent in galleys and gibbets. That's a language that still doesn't come naturally to me.
But I did learn something. Understading every sentence doesn't much matter. I still cannot crack the nut, but it's nice to just suck on the shell
In sixth grade, I tried again. And failed again. 2 years of wisdom were not enough to get past those darn ships. Nothing was stopping me from using a dictionary to decipher each arcane sentence. But honestly? That was too much. Reading was only fun when it wasn't homework. And nautical dictionaries made Treasures Island feel like one big homework assignment.
The story was one of those pistachios with the shell sealed shut. I'm sure there was something delicious inside, but I could not find out what was inside. Maybe I wasn't smart enough to understand the book.
And now, I'm 27, and honestly? The seaman vocabulary is still indecipherable. The intervening 15 years have done little to help my boat-based understanding. It seems that the young readers of the 1890s were fluent in galleys and gibbets. That's a language that still doesn't come naturally to me.
But I did learn something. Understading every sentence doesn't much matter. I still cannot crack the nut, but it's nice to just suck on the shell