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KidnappedIn the beginning of the book Kidnapped, readers are introduced to David Balfour. He is seventeen and has been recently orphaned. Soon after, the minister gives David a letter that David's...
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Kidnappedkidnapped by the captain of the Covenant Shipwrecked on the little island Regained ownership of the House of Shaws.
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Kidnapped"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...
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KidnappedThe most important moral that we can get from reading this book is the idea that even people who have no reason to be friendly can become friends. This is an important lesson for us in today's...
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KidnappedYeah, 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...
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KidnappedMy 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...
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KidnappedRobert 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...
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KidnappedThe 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...
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KidnappedStevenson 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...
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KidnappedDavid 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...
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KidnappedThis 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...
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KidnappedIn Kidnapped, what do David's and Alan's reactions to victory reveal about them after the victory...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...
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KidnappedStevenson'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...
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KidnappedIt'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...
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KidnappedMr. 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...
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KidnappedThe 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...