Stevenson: "Treasure Island" or the ideal of pirate adventures

More than a hundred years ago, his first publication survived a book, whose father was Stevenson - "Treasure Island." If you think about the name, you can put forward the assumption that the main characters in the novel are pirates. In fact, so it is, but even the villains from the first role-playing series are indirect heroes. In fact, the main role is given to a young man who until a certain day did not think about the sea, that he would go for treasures on an unforgettable journey.

You can quickly learn the essence of the novel, which wrote Stevenson ("Treasure Island"). Its summary is available on many Internet resources. But the book is so breathtaking that full reading of it will bring more pleasure. The protagonist is Jim, a young, but not a year old, brave boy, randomly gets a card with which he can find treasures.

However, he is not the only one interested in finding gold. In the novel there is one more colorful character - Dr. Livesay. During the reading it becomes clear that he is not deprived of author's love, he was also admired by Stevenson. "Treasure Island" generally gathered in itself such heroes, which can not be remembered. Even small, secondary roles are placed in their places and are no less significant.

FROM The yuzhet described in the book is undoubtedly interesting. However, no less striking is the story that tells how Stevenson created the Treasure Island. If in many books "in the beginning there was a word", then this work is an authentic ideal of the genre of "pirate adventure", since here in the beginning there was a map. This is exactly what happened, because Robert Stevenson drew a plan of the seas and islands to attract the attention of his stepchild. Then he began to tell him about the characters that were invented around this card. Initially, all of his stories were the sailors' stories, heard by Stephenson as a child. After the circle of heroes expanded, new ships appeared , pirates, the famous dead man's chest and, of course, fighters against evil.

Piracy at the time of writing the novel was already going through the sunset, so Robert showed not the struggle of the corsairs with ships, not gold mining, but robbers-looters, who could kill each other for money. They had no family, friends and homeland behind them, they fought to live rich. But all the amusing adventures of Stevenson of these villains reflect only the secondary line of the book, and the main idea of the novel is old as the world is the ultimate victory of good. And the path to it lies not through brute force, cunning or cruelty. He is trampled by a young boy, confident in himself and not spoiled by life.

It can not be said that Robert did not condemn evil, he did it ironically, through laughter. But one energetic pirate still deserved his freedom and treasure. At the end of the novel he escapes punishment and again goes on a journey through the waves. Therefore, the one-legged Silver survived when he finished Stevenson's Treasure Island. But you can not blame the author for that - for sure every reader admired the vitality, cunning and cunning of a cruel pirate.

Thus, by the end of the 19th century, people first saw the immortal novel that Robert Stephenson presented to the world: "Treasure Island." Combining several genres, he was able to interest any reader. This is what gave him worldwide fame. And for a whole era, this book is enthusiastically "swallowed" by people of different ages.