Treasure Island

In our lives greed is something that will make a person go above and beyond normal just to achieve more than what they already have, Throughout Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Treasure Island, greed possessed the pirates to uncover the buried treasure. The book shows the many things that happened during their journey. Everybody wanted to be the first to uncover the treasure. Eventually the crew formed a mutiny and tried to take over. Greed …

…Greed is used in Treasure Island as motivation or inspiration to Jim Hawkins, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, Ben Gunn, Long John Silver and his crew to uncover the treasure. One of the first times greed is brought out in the novel is when Jim takes the map from Billy Bones’ room. Greed can be seen as the spark to give the characters something to strive for. Without greed, the treasure wouldn’t have been uncovered.