TREASURE ISLAND

The book is about a treasure; the story is set in the days of sail ship and pirates and it tells of the adventure of Jim Hawkins, a young boy who lives in a plain way with his mother in his parents' inn, 'The Admiral Benbow'.

One day arrives at the inn a mysterious man called Bill. He's looking for a quiet and peaceful place because he wants to hid a se-chest. He rents a room at the inn, pays Jim's mother and warns Jim to keep a look out for him, especially of a sea-fearing man with one leg!

Few months later, Bill is still staying at the inn but he didn't pay for the stay of the last months; he is drinking a lot of rum and Doctor Livesey, a family-friend of Jim's father, who's dead, has already gave him an advertisement : he must stop drinking do much and he must calm down.

An old, blind pirate, called 'Blind Pew' arrives at the inn and gives Bill the 'Black Spot'- the mark of death among Flint's pirate crew. Bill recognize the sign and few later he died of heart attack. Jim helped by his mother finds the key of Bill's sea-chest and in the chest he finds a strange map, that mark the place where is hidden a treasure.

They have time to hide just before Blind Pew returns with a band of pirates. They start ransacking the inn looking for the map, but the soldiers arrive and the pirates escape except for Blind Pew, who is killed by the soldiers.

Jim takes the map to doctor Livsey and Squire Trelawney and they decide to go and find the treasure. Squire Trelawney obtain a ship, the Hispaniola, and few weeks later they sail from Bristol. Captain of the ship is Captain Smollet, Telawney is the admiral, the doctor is the ship's doctor and Jim a cabin boy. Jim meets Long John Silver, the famous old pirate with one leg, who is the cook on the ship and he's in company with a strange parrot, that repeats all the time 'pieces of eight'.

The captain doesn't trust the crew and he's right because some members of the crew heard about the treasure and they're organizing a mutiny. However, the night before they land on the treasure island Jim falls in an apple barrel and discovers that Silver and other members of the crew are plotting to kill them all. He realizes that Silver and most of the crew are actually pirates and were once member of Flint's crew.

Jim warns the doctor, Squire and the captain about the plans that he heard from the apple barrel. When they arrive near the island, the captain sends most of the pirates ashore as a reward and Jim decided to go with them. When they touch land, Jim hide and escape. Advanced in the forest, he meets Ben Gunn, a strange and wild man, who was marooned on the island three years ago by his crew mates. Ben promise to help Jim and his friends and he shows Jim where can he find a boat if he'll need it. Meanwhile, the captain and the others have abandoned the Hispaniola and taken refuge in an old stockade, built by Flint's crew, on the island. Jim finds them and they decided reinforce them because they know the pirates will attack them.

The pirates quickly understand that their plans has been discovered and Silver goes to the stockade with a flag of truce and ask to talk with the captain : he tries to contracts an agreement for their benefit but the captain is inflexible. Silver turn back and they start the fight : the pirates attack the captain and the others in an attempt to get the treasure map. Jim and the other defend themselves and only the captain is wounded at the shoulder.

Finished the attack, the doctor go to lookup for Benn Gunn and Jim decides to escape from the stockade and sneaks off without telling the others. He finds Ben Gunn's boat and arrives at the Hispaniola, throw Israel Hands in the water and take the control of the ship. He anchor the ship in an inlet so that the pirates can't see it. He returns to the stockade but here he finds Silver and his mates. Jim is captured and is given the choice to join them. When he refuses the pirates want to kill him but Silver talks them out of it. Silver tells Jim that the doctor has given him the map and also abandoned the stockade in exchange for being allowed to go free.

The doctor came to the stockade and ask to talk with Jim; Silver let him to go to talk with the doctor but Jim must promise that he won't try to escape. The doctor try to convince him to escape but he gave his word. Jim tells the doctor that he has taken the ship and hide it.

The doctor makes sure that Jim is in good hands with Silver and then goes back. Silver makes Jim understand that now he is on his side and together with the pirates they start the search for the treasure. First on their way they find a skeleton that points a way; they're a little bit frightened but they continue the search. Then they hear somebody singing but they don't recognize the voice of Benn Gunn.

Finally, they arrive on the marked point but there is no treasure!! They start digging but they find only two guineas. they start being angry with Silver and in this moment arrives doctor Livsey with Benn Gunn. Benn Gunn during his stay on the island found the place where the treasure was hidden and start digging. He makes of the hollow his refuge.

To finish the pirate are killed by the doctor and Silver with Jim and the others returns on the Hispaniola back to England. No one ever hears of Long John Silver again.