Treasure Island

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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850 He was a
sickly youth and developed a severe respiratory
illness at age 23.
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Told by a doctor he would only live a few more
months but lived 14 more years. Died in 1894
after living in the South Seas for 7 years.
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Treasure Island
Stevenson began writing Treasure Island on a wet
and dreary day in Scotland to entertain his
stepson. The boy had drawn a map of an island
which Stevenson began adding names to and talking
about pirates and buried treasure.
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Stevenson said, The next thing I knew I had some
paper before me and was writing out a list of
characters.
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• Other books by Stevenson
• Kidnapped
• The Black Arrow
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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• Themes
• Good vs. Evil

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Treasure Island

• Themes
• Coming of Age

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• Themes
• Greed

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• Narrators
• Jim Hawkins
• Dr. Livesey (Ch. 15-18)

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Setting The novel begins in England at the
Admiral Benbow Inn run by Jim Hawkins and his
parents.