At the end of 19th century, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an adventure novel “Treasure Island”. It was published as a book at 1883. Book became very popular especially among young people. Now I’m going to tell the plot shortly.
Book’s story tells about a young man named Jim Hawkins, who goes for a wild adventure to the treasure-island. Jim’s mother lives in England in public house, where she accommodates an old sailor, who finally drinks himself to death. The sailor was carrying a treasure map with him. The map tells where the treasure has been hidden a long time ago.
Jim starts to gather crew for the ship named “Hispaniola”. There’s a man named Long John Silver among the crew. John is another protagonist of the book.
Ship gets to the island, but some of the men start a mutiny. Soon they all find out that a treasure isn’t there anymore. Jim and John Silver manage to overthrow the mutiny and soon they get to know where the treasure has been moved. Men involved in mutiny were left to the island. After getting the treasure Jim and John travel back to England and they go to the separate ways.
Characters of the book were a little bit boring, except the protagonists Jim and John. They were only characters which I was able to empathize with. They also are the characters of which history has told more specific than the others.
So, my opinion about the book is that it’s pretty complicated to read because story has been split to six chapters. Good thing is that time doesn’t jump to the past or to the future between chapters. The books language was clear enough and that was also a positive surprise for me. The most pleasant thing is that book was not too short. Also it was not too long. Text and narrative were clear enough.
My final opinion is that the book is worth reading, but it is not the great favorite of mine.