Bokrecension: Treasure Island av Robert Loius Stevenson

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Treasure Island,

by Robert Louis Stevenson


When I first heard that we were too choose a book, and write a review about it, I immediately thought of this book, since I bought the book only a couple of weeks ago. Through out this review, I''''m gonna divide it in five different columns. These five is;

Common Point of View, what the book is about, etc. etc.

The Story, if it is easy to understand, etc. etc.

The characters, how they change under the story''''s plot, etc. etc.

The language, if it is easy to understand, etc. etc.

The book and myself, what my comments is, etc. etc.


So, of course I will start with the first one.

The story takes place in 1800-centurie, and it is as follows,,, Jim and his family runs an inn near the coast. It''''s a bit from the nearest city, and one day they get a customer that will change young Jim''''s life forever. His name is Captain, and that is all they get to know about their guest.
One day, he takes Jim aside, and say to him that he will get a silver four penny, if Jim locks out for a one legged man. Both Jim and his family soon realises that Captain don''''t want company, and he want it too stay that way.
A couple of days later, a man comes too the inn, and asks for his friend Bill. Jim says he don''''t know any Bill, but when the man describes the Captains drinking and cursing, Jim realises that the man is talking about the Captain, who happens to be out on his daily walk at the cliffs. When he comes back, a fight brakes out, and the man leave, with the Captain lying weak on the floor. The towns doctor, who has come to see Jim´s ill father, saves the Captain, and tells him that if he drink more than one glas rom, he will get a stroke and die. But the Captain won''''t listen, so that when Jim''''s father death suddenly comes, and the inn becomes a house of mourning, Jim, and the others can hear the Captain''''s rough, and inappropriate, songs through the tiny inn...
The day after the funeral, the Captain gets another guests, and this time it is a blind man. He too, wants to talk to the Captain. But this time there is no fight, since the blind has only come to give the Captain something, After he''''s done that, he runs out and the Captain gets a stroke and dies, after the what it says on the note that the blind man gave him... They went upstairs, to get the money that the Captain owed them... Jim also got a couple of paper, to settle the score.
It didn''''t took long, before the inn gets stormed by the men that belonged to the blind man. And it seams that they are looking for something, When Jim and his mother flee, they leaves everything in the inn, except the money, and the couple of papers that Jim took,..
They flee to the doctors house, where they discovers that the couple of papers, includes a treasure map! The doctor, and a squire who happened to visit the doctor, decides to set out an expedition, to retrive the treasure. Both the doctor and Jim, decides to accompany, so they travel to Bristol, to get a hold of a boat, and a good crew that will get the treasure back.
When they get to Bristol, Jim is sent out to recruit their new sea cook, John Long Silver. Although he has one leg, Jim comes to trust the man, since he don''''t have the manners of a normal pirate.
Before they set out with their ship, the met the captain, Captain Smellet, will save them many times further on...
But, now is my review for the book over, and if you want to know what happens further on, and on the juicy details I "happened" to miss out...

But now, I will continue with the rest of the essay...

The Story is easy to understand, what happens and what the characters are doing. To summery it all, the text is easy, and so is everything else...

The Characters. Now, I''''m gonna tell short, about a few of the characters, because if I would talk about every one of the characters in the book, it would take forever... the first, and the most important, is Jim himself.

Jim, is from the beginning a young boy who runs an inn near the coast with his family. After his father harsch death, and a couple of other incidents, he gets out on the sea to retrive a treasure with a few trustworthy people...

Long John Silver, now, I can''''t tell to much about this one, since he will change drastically when they arrives at the island, I think that I will leave this one, to who ever read this essay, and as well the book, to fill this one out...

Captain Smellet, an honest man, who require discipline on his boat, and so as well on dry land from his men, and honestly from his fellow being.

The Doctor, Livesey, is as captain Smellet, a man of discipline, and I''''m sure that he would be able to talk calm and perfectly steady, if he had a knife to his throat...

Ben Gunn, a man who will appear later in the book, ...