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Jim Hawkins Character Analysis

The everlasting change of survival, going from one thing to the next, survival will put a person on his feet to preserve him or herself. Young Jim Hawkins in the classical novel Treasure Island, is forced to change to survive by forces he cannot control and the struggles that came along with it.
“I heeled her, tottering as she was, to the edge of the bank where sure enough, she gave a sigh and fell on my shoulder.” (Stevenson 23, 4). As Jim Hawkins is now alone in this world, his mother and father dead, he forced to become independent with himself. He feels this way since his parent’s death. This creates change and independence in him that shows when Jim Hawkins when he decides to join the landing party to …show more content…
“I had caught a branch and swung myself out, and plunged into the nearest thicket, while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind. “Jim, Jim!” I heard him shouting. But you may suppose I paid no heed; jumping, ducking and breaking through, I ran straight before my nose, till I could run no longer.” (Stevenson 73, 13). Now Jim Hawkins feared the force of inevitable death. He even witnessed it when Tom is killed by John Silver by tempting him and disagreeing with his actions. (Stevenson 76-77, 13). Jim is now afraid of the inevitable death that stalks him.
The survival from John Silver and the buccaneers starts when Jim Hawkins hears the plans to commit mutiny while on board the ship, inside of an empty apple barrel so he could espionage John Sliver. (Stevenson 59, 11). This loses trust on Jim Hawkins side, now knowing that Long John Silver was planning a mutiny against the “helping hands.” This also drives him to start others he could trust and trusting the actual captain of the ship Captain Smolensk. This has also changed his personal view on Captain Smolensk.
Jim Hawkins main change was the effort from comfort to survival. He is forced by independence of himself, death, and trust, or the lack of trust. These are the many forces that caused the change in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure
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