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Livesey, who relates a number of events happening while Jim was elsewhere and thus couldn’t have known what was going on.

For several chapters, however, the point of view shifts to that of Dr.

Point of View: Most of the novel is told in the first person from the perspective of an older Jim Hawkins who is setting down the tale of Treasure Island.

Antagonist: Long John Silver is the most prominent antagonist, though he’s an ambivalent one: less important pirates like Israel Hands are also the most decidedly evil.

The story is told from the perspective of Jim. Stevenson has used some more minor characters who plays a less significant role. A map of an imaginary island gave Stevenson the idea for the first story, and a nightmare supplied the premise of the second. Both of these novels have curious origins.

Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order. Robert Louis Stevenson is best known as the author of the children’s classic Treasure Island (1882), and the adult horror story, The Strange Case of Dr. The doctor, Gray, and Ben Gunn then emerge from their hiding place in the woods and they send the other pirates racing off. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1883. Read reviews and buy Treasure Island - (Aladdin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback) at Target.

Climax: Having found the x-marks-the-spot, but with no treasure to be seen-merely an excavation site-the pirates are ready to mutiny against Long John Silver (and kill Jim along with him) when Silver kills George.Setting: Britain (on the Bristol Channel) and Treasure Island (apparently somewhere in the Caribbean, although the plants on the island make that unclear).Genre: Novel, children’s adventure story.