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Chapter 1 to Chapter 6
Treasure Island
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Table of Contents
IntroductionCast of CharactersPlot SummaryAn Analysis of Major CharactersJim Hawkins
Long John Silver
Dr. Livesey
Squire Trelawney
Chapter Summary and AnalysisChapter 1 to Chapter 6
Chapter 7 to Chapter 12
Chapter 13 to Chapter 15
Chapter 16 to chapter 21
Chapter 22 to Chapter 27
Chapter 28 to Chapter 34
Symbols and ThemesKey FactsKey QuotesPoints to PonderDiscussion QuestionsTake The QuizFurther Reading
Chapter 1 to Chapter 6
Part I: The Old Buccaneer
Chapter 1
The Old Sea Dog at the “Admiral Benbow”
The story is told from the first person perspective of Jim Hawkins, who serves as narrator of the tale at the request of Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and other unnamed gentlemen who want to know the “particulars about Treasure Island.” Jim is a boy writing in the 18th century and begins his account by describing the arrival at his father’s inn, the “Admiral Benbow,” of an unseemly sailor named Billy Bones, whom everyone calls “the Captain,” and who has a large scar on his cheek. The Captain comes to the inn with a large chest in which he stores his belongs, throws down a few pieces of gold for lodgings, exists mainly on rum, bellows out a sailing song, “Fifteen men on The Dead Men’s Chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” and exercises a kind of tyrannical rule over the guests of the inn as well as Jim’s father, who has difficulty getting the Captain to pay the remainder of his bill for what turns out to be an extended stay.
The Captain hires Jim at the rate of a silver fourpenny a...
