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jonfaith 's review for:
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Perhaps we overlook this sundry function of literature. Much like a sermon it can empower, personally I wouldn’t know about the sermons as I never paid attention. But just perhaps as that man in La Mancha found lore excessively earnest and was empowered accordingly, maybe belle lettres acts as a clarion? Jim Hawkins didn’t strike me as true, an improbable milksop who while mourning his father becomes an expert in counter-insurgency and close quarters combat.
The author betrays a Jacobean tinge with his characterization of the squire (that chatty git). The doctor is a perhaps on the nose reflection of RLS’s self-image and the twinning (and often twirling) father figures of Silver and the Captain.
It was interesting that race is broached in the final pages, especially the reliability of black people. Oh, I ache to consider the life lessons which gushed from this adventurous yarn.
The author betrays a Jacobean tinge with his characterization of the squire (that chatty git). The doctor is a perhaps on the nose reflection of RLS’s self-image and the twinning (and often twirling) father figures of Silver and the Captain.
It was interesting that race is broached in the final pages, especially the reliability of black people. Oh, I ache to consider the life lessons which gushed from this adventurous yarn.