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📘 What Treasure Island costs its hero

On stormy nights at the Admiral Benbow, a boy is paid to watch the road for a seafaring man with one leg. The lodger who pays him will die upstairs, leaving a pirate's map that gentlemen will sail the Atlantic to cash.

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What you’ll learn

  1. The map arrivesSee how a chart found in a dead pirate's chest turns a coastal inn into a gentleman's treasure hunt.Billy Bones dies after the black spot; Jim and his mother take Flint's map from the sea-chest; Livesey and Trelawney fit out the Hispaniola, and Trelawney's talk puts Silver's crew aboard.
  2. Silver's double faceUnderstand Silver as the book's real danger: a cook whose friendliness is also a method.Silver charms Jim, then — overheard from an apple-barrel — times a mutiny that uses the gentlemen as unpaid navigators. Ashore, Smollett's discipline, Livesey's care, and Silver's charm compete for the same gold.
  3. What the treasure costsFollow Jim's rash independence to the empty pit, Silver's escape, and Jim's refusal to go back.Jim's disobedience finds Ben Gunn and takes the ship; the marked pine is empty because Gunn moved the hoard; Silver leaves with a sack of coin; Jim would not return to the island.

Questions this course answers

How does Jim learn about the mutiny?

Jim goes for an apple, not on a spy mission. From the barrel he hears Silver recruit a hand and time the mutiny.

Who has moved Flint's treasure?

Gunn found the cache during his three years marooned and carried it to his cave two months before the Hispaniola arrived.

Why is Jim an important narrator?

Jim's account shows a boy becoming responsible through risky choices rather than beginning as a finished hero.

What does Long John Silver do at the end?

At a Spanish-American port Gunn helps Silver escape in a shore boat. Jim says they were pleased to be so cheaply quit of him.

What is one complication in the novel's morality?

Livesey and Trelawney fit out a voyage to lift Flint's hoard. Stevenson makes Silver dangerous without making the expedition morally effortless.

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