treasure island

“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” This is the old sea –song that the pirate Billy Bones sang at his days at the “Admiral Benbow” in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island. Treasure Island throws the reader into a world of dangerous pirates, hidden treasure, and adventure. Treasure Island is narrated by both Jim Hawkins, an older man now but a child when the events happened, …

…novels. He keeps the readers enticed and interested in each and every chapter; making the reader have to turn the page and make them want to. He lets the reader read through this novel of the confrontation between Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver searching for the mysterious treasure when all the while the reader is getting the treasure of reading it. Work Cited · Louis Stevenson, Robert “Treasure Island” · “Treasure Island” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol. 63