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Treasure Island

Posted by Corbin Matlock on May 22, 2014
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Treasure Island is book about a young man named Jim Hawkins he is the son of a mother that has an Inn and this inn has frequent visitor who tells stories and lives there his name is Captain Bones but Bone has has a heart attack and is dieing when he give a treasure map to Jim. Jim wants to find the treasure on the map and takes a doctor who was helping Bones recover and they try and make a crew. The doc finds one person Named Long John Silver who is so charismatic that he coaxes him to let him pick the crew and this was the dumbest move of the whole book.

They find a Ship called the Hispaniola they sail off the next day. They Start running out of food and there is only one apple left Jim goes to get it at the bottom of the barrel when he hears some one coming he jumps in the barrel to listen he finds out Silver is plotting to have a mutiny to take over to get all of the gold. After a couple weeks of sailing they find it the good crew goes to find the gold and silver is on the ship. Jim is still on the ship but he sneaks off he later finds a marooned pirate whose name was Ben Gun. and he claims he is rich but Jim thinks he is crazy.

Silver is the one with all the guns and the captain calls for a truce but neither of them really want to give up. Later the good part of the crew finds a fort and the pirate attack the good crew won because they had a fort and the pirates lose a lot of members. When Jim sneaks of to do his plan he finds the ship he wants to beach the boat. He gets on and finds that the crew is drunk and have resorted to killing each other.

He finds his friend Hands and they navigate the ship together he later finds out that Hands wants to kill him yet he is shocked when he actually attacks him. After that he leaves to go to the fort that the good crew was in fort but when he gets there he is captured and found out that they had left and the pirates took over. Finally when the pirates look for the gold they find it was already taken. when they where looking the good crew attacked and killed all but Silver and Ben Gun had already taken the gold and they left Silver marooned and they took Ben Gun and the gold and went home.

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