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Jim Hawkins The Treasure Island
The story Treasure Island is about a boy Jim Hawkins and his different qualities throughout the course of the story. Jim was just an ordinary kid. He shows this when he was helping his mom with the innkeeping. Also, when he was at the Admiral Benbow Inn when he meet the captain. He shows that he is brave. When Jim ran from Blind Pew and hid with his mom underneath the bridge, and still be close enough that the pirates could find them. Then, Jim took and hid the map from the pirates when they would do anything to get the map. Hawkins showed he was smart. He cut the rope from the ship and moved it to the North Bay. And when he ran from the scottcade and got Ben Gunn’s boat he made to get the ship back from the pirates. Jim Hawkins showed

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