Kidnapped

The protagonist and narrator of the novel, David Balfour, receives a letter from a minister, Mr. Campbell, along with an instruction to travel to the House of Shaws. David is informed that this...

In chapter 14 of Kidnapped, David is stranded on a small island. He describes this as "the most unhappy part of my adventures" and thinks he is likely to die of cold. He is even afraid to sit down...

On the face of it, it's amazing that David and Alan should be friends at all, given their huge political differences. Yet somehow they're drawn together, sticking with each other through thick and...

Kidnapped is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1886. The term hero, when applied in a literary context, refers to the protagonist or main character of a narrative. In this...

Good question! To find the answer, we can look at David's own words contained in his narrative of chapter one. They give us much insight into the reasons behind his decision to leave home. He says,...

James of the Glen is a name given to James Stewart, a Scottish historical figure who was wrongly hanged for the murder of British royal agent Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure, notoriously known as...

Stevenson's introduction of Alan Breck Stewart, the man with the belt of gold, is a dramatic one. The prelude is a crashing jolt to the ship and the announcement that the ship had run a boat down...

Mr. Riach is not an uneducated man but he is relegated to the level of a ship like the Covenant because he is addicted to drink (though not to the degree that Mr. Shaun is), so he has a depth of...

The reason the British soldiers would arrest Alan Breck Stewart involves two stories, that of English royal succession statrting with Charles I of the House of Stuart who was beheaded in the Civil...

"History is the study of change over time. Historical fiction brings history to life by placing appealing characters in accurately described historical settings. Historical fiction is realistic...

Young David Balfour's father has recently passed away. He left his son nothing but a letter of introduction to his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour. The name Ebenezer conjures up images of the famous old...

After David and Alan victoriously defend themselves against the marauding sailors in the roundhouse, David feels morally overwhelmed by the two deaths he dealt to the attackers. Alan, a hardened...

In chapter 2 of Kidnapped, David Balfour finally sees the house of Shaws after hearing vague and disturbing reports of it and of his Uncle Ebenezer. He is shocked to observe the grimness and...

The last we hear of Alan in Chapter XIII of Kidnapped is that the land across from where the brig is blown by the wind into a reef is the "worst possible for him ... for it was a land of the...

David Balfour was stranded for four days on the tidal islet of Earraid. In the end, his clothes were in rags and tatters, his stockings worn through so that his "shanks were bare" and his throat...

The narrator and main hero of the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a teenager named David Balfour. He is the one referred to in the title, who actually gets kidnapped. After his parents...

My plan seems to have backfired. Actually, only David is washed onto the tidal islet of Earraid. Alan is washed ashore with a group of sailors onto the mainland of Ross of Mull. When David finally...

Robert Louis Stevenson takes readers on a romp across the terrain of Scotland in Kidnapped as hero David Balfour seeks his destiny after his father's death. He travels on foot across the distance...

This is an unusual question. I've modified the language a little bit to make it more logical. The question assumes Stevenson did "create a whole world of hypocrisy in Kidnapped" though it can be...

Kidnapped, an 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells the story of a teenaged orphan and his adventure to gain his inheritance, help and be helped by Jacobite rebels, and stay alive. A notable...

It's a bit strange to think of a time of being kidnapped, bashed on the head, sent to sea, threatened with banishment as a slave in the Virgina Colony tobacco plantations, seeing a demented ship's...

Yeah, Stevenson does a great job of layering the perceptions sight, sound and physical description David has of Ebenezer. It seems the most natural thing to have occur: David approaches from afar...

Stevenson starts setting up negative connotations around Uncle Ebenezer with David's own thoughts as he approaches the Balfour manor house. David muses about how dim the lights in the windows are...