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Skeleton Island Character Analysis
Stevenson conveys to the audience Hawkins’ character development through his use of the first-person narrative. By Jim Hawkins narrating the tale of the adventure of Skeleton Island the audience gets to see the character growth occurring with Jim and also emphasizes the major themes of novel, heroism, isolated islands, language and treasure. Towards the end of the novel, by Stevenson having Hawkins compare the reality of the trip to the expectations of the quest, Stevenson suggests that the adventure really was not a quest for treasure but character growth for Jim as he experiences his first true act of betrayal. This parallels many of the modern novels about heroism in the sense that “once again the imagined world fails to materialize
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