Treasure Island Hero's Journey

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“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum” (Stevenson 7). Plenty of pirate references are to be found in Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is about a young boy that happens across a treasure map due to some peculiar circumstances. Before he stumbles across this, however, he had to deal with “the captain”. Billy Bones, also known as the captain, showed up one day to the Admiral Benbow. And that is when young Jim Hawkin’s journey began. Some refer to the meaning of this adventure as Jim’s journey to becoming a man.
The big turning point in the beginning of Treasure Island, is when Billy Bones kills over after a series of troubling events. Bill drank way too much for his own good, even though he was told …show more content…
“...I take up my pen in the year of grace 17- and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof” (Stevenson 7). The Admiral Benbow is alongside the harbor of Bristol. This is along the western coast of England, and is set in the time pirates roamed the seas. “When a seaman put up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol)...” (Stevenson 8). Mostly seaman, the captain, Jim, and his family are around for the beginning. Young Jim’s father is sick, and this contributes to the mood of the beginning being dreary. Both Jim’s father and the captain die within a short time period of each other, which only adds to the depressing mood in the beginning. “But as things fell out, my poor father died quite suddenly that evening…” (Stevenson 20). Somewhere in the mid-seventeenth century, and possibly in the months before winter is around the time that Jim obtains the treasure map. It is most likely cold, gloomy, and grey as Jim deals with all the stress of the dreadful events leading up to his discovery of the treasure map. “So things passed until, the day after the funeral, and about three o’clock of a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon…” (Stevenson 21). Stevenson’s descriptions of places and events are a major part of how he sets each scene, and how he sets the mood for those scenes. “Throughout the book, there are countless examples of description that do double or triple duty. These descriptions also move the story forward…”
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