Bokrecension: Treasure Island av Robert Luis Stevenson

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Treasure Island
By
Robert Luis Stevenson



By: Nicolette Nadj
Finish date: 2006-10-11
The environment

This classic pirate story takes us into a long-gone swashbuckling world - the cold steel of the cutlass, gold doubloons, silver ''''pieces of eight'''', and the cunning one-legged mastermind Long John Silver.
The environment varies from Jim’s families inn to the big docks. But the biggest part of the story takes place in the tropics on the island.
The first chapter’s takes place in the dark and boring inn near the docks, but soon it’s transforming to a house of opportunity when Jim finds the map. The milieu by the skips is well descripted by Stevenson who has described the sounds, skips and the bridges as if you are there.
When they finally arrive to the island you get a feeling of warmth whit the wind blowing towards the island. The island is well descripting with dense forests and glades witch makes it weary real. Overall he is describing a weary adventures place.

Main characters

In the book it is Jim Hawkins who is telling the story and is the main character. Jim is a weary smart and clever guy. In one way ore another he always success to trick the pirates. It’s a big mistake to underestimate Jim, everyone who is doing that gets it back in the end.
An other character who is coming out weary strongly is Long John Silver. The one-legged and weary shrewd pirate is always ready for the worst and, just like Jim, always success to get himself out of trouble.
Dr. Livesey is the most intelligent and educated person, he plans everything weary carefully and makes rarely mistakes unlike to the landowner who is a weary messy person and the story is based on his mistakes.

The story

Jim Hawkins and his mother and father run an inn called the ''''Admiral Benbow.'''' One day an old sea dog, who’s name is Billy Bone but they call him Captain, comes in and tells Jim to warn him if he see a sea-faring man with one leg.
One of these shows up, frightening Billy (who drinks far too much rum) into a stroke, and Billy tells Jim that his former shipmates covet the contents of his sea chest. After a visit from another man, Billy has another stroke and dies.
Jim and his mother (his father has died only a few days before) unlock the sea chest, finding some money, a journal, and a map. The local physician, Dr. Livesey, deduces that the map is of an island where the pirate Flint buried a vast treasure. The district squire, Trelawney, proposes buying a ship and going after the treasure, taking Livesey as ship''''s doctor and Jim as cabin boy.
During the trip Jim accidental falls asleep in an apple barrel and hear the chef Long John Silver discussing whit one of the crew how they are going to take over the whole ship. Jim tells Dr. Livesey what he had heard and it is now the adventure begins; they find a wild man, a rebellion, missing treasure, and a few evil plots. Will Jim find the treasure before the pirates?

What I thought

Horrible! How can anybody possibly like this book? This could be the worse book I’ve read in a long time. The language is as interesting and colourful as a rock. The ending was beyond horrible. I wouldn’t recommend this book; actually I would stay away from it.
Don’t get me wrong, the idea and the story is a great work (why wouldn’t it be, several famous movies have been successfully made after it), but it’s just the vocabulary. It was written around 1885, or something like that, but books that have words that old should be adapted to the current language. On the other hand it makes the characters more real and full of life but… No, I stand by my point; the language should change.
It is really hard to understand what character has witch names because it’s so many names for just one character.
The whole book are sounding a ...