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Treasure Island Jim Hawkins Qualities
Name~ Jaydn Bigford Block~6
Date~11~02~15

In the book Treasure Island Jim Hawkins showed he had four very helpful qualities. During the story Treasure Island Jim Hawkins showed just how brave he really was. Jim was brave when he stayed on the Hispaniola even though Israel Hands had a knife and planned to harm Jim with it. Hawkins was also smart while on the treasure hunt. He was very smart when he cut the rope of the Hispaniola so the pirates couldn’t leave the island with them left marooned. When Long John Silver was talking to the pirates about their plan for when they reach the island Jim was very smart not the come out of the apple barrel. Even though Jim has many amazing qualities he was still just an ordinary boy . He was an

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