Treasure Island (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- First Published: 1881
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: The 1740’s
- Setting: England and the Spanish Main
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Voyages, Adolescence, Crime or criminals, Friendship, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Islands, Greed, Sailing or sailors, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Sea or seafaring life, Adventure, Heroes or heroism, Orphans or orphanages, Battles, Pirates, Treasure
- Locales: England, Atlantic Ocean, Spanish Main
Characters Discussed
Jim Hawkins, the principal narrator, a bright, courageous boy. His father owns the Admiral Benbow Inn, where Billy Bones hides. In Bones’s sea chest, Jim finds a map of Captain Flint’s buried treasure.
Dr. Livesey, who treats Jim’s dying father and later the wounded mutineers on Treasure Island.
Squire Trelawney, who finances the treasure hunt and outsmarts the pirates.
Captain Smollett, the captain of the expedition’s ship, the Hispaniola.
Captain Bill Bones, who steals the map and sings, “Fifteen men on a dead...
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