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I DID READ KIDNAPPED AND NOT SO LONG AGO. IT´S A GOOD STORY AND INTERESTING TOO. THERE IS SOME TRUTH IN WHAT YOU SAY, THAT THE CLASSIC STORY OF PIRATES MAYBE HAS SOME MORE ATRACTION. IN FACT THERE HAVE BBEN MORE MOVIES ABOUT THE TOPIC.Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishCanadian
How can you dismiss this work as "horrible" ? Are you yourself a distinguished writer? Can you create a work of fiction as popular and well known? I highly doubt it! Are you as pretentious to assume so? Your sheer ignorance and disrespect show you to be. I favour letting everyone have their opinion, but the way you have expressed yours is idiotic if not outrageous. Do you come up with some argument other than the language is as "interesting and colorful as a rock"? That similie doesn't even make any sense. Rocks are very interesting, and they range in many different colours. Your terrible comparison and lack of creativity leads me to further believe that you are too incompetent to write a work of fiction NEARLY worthy of someone like yourself to brand as "horrible".
Perhaps you did not understand that the book is a children's book. Perhaps your imagination is so short that you cannot take what Stevenson has given you and run away with it like so many others have. This book was written for children to use and then to dwell upon with their imagination for a long time.
Noting that you have only two posts, and that one of them is the creation of this topic, I can assume that you joined this forum simply to post this topic. Now, why would you join a forum just to bash a book that you didn't give a chance? Oh, maybe because you have to read it for school! Am I right? Perhaps you did a book report on it? Your incompetence, poor analytical skills, and book choice (lovely book, low reading level) for a book report imply that you must be either uneducated and / or very young. Which is it?
Back to the book: I love this book. I think that it is the perfect romantic (in the traditional sense) adventure story that enables the reader to add on to it with their own imagination and creativity. Long John Silver is the perfect example of a cunning, manipulative, eccentric, and ingenious man and Robert Stevenson created him with the utmost care just like all of the other characters.
Excellent book, I remember reading it as a child, being a typical boy I became totally engrossed with the pirates and the search for buried treasure.
I found Treasure Island and a love for literature near the end of Elementary school. The themes in this book may seem childish at times, but the fact is that it opened up so many doors to my imagination. I think that many of you will find it hard to "read it for the first time" because you were not able to enjoy it during the innocent times of your life. I think those of us that received it at a young age and see it as "looking back"
I loved this book.
Though it's easy to think that the story is about a group of pirates after
their treasure, in my opinion, it's beyond just that. I thought it's about a
person's life. About a young and innocent boy named Jim Hawkins growing
into a mature man. If you paid attention to the titles of the chapters, you
would have noticed they go like [My shore adventure], and then to
[My sea adventure], which illustrates boy Jim's gradual approach into this
tough life. Jim's taking charge of the ship by himself symbolizes that he is
now dependent on his own in his life.
Now, Long John Silver plays a very important role in all this. It is safe to say
that he is the devil. Every time he says anything, he lies. Only lies come out
of his mouth, but those lies are very persuasive that people get tricked by
them. Yet, he cannot physically harm Jim, which reminded me of the same
evil in the book of Job in the Bible. When I was reading, I was amazed at
R.L.Stevenson's genius ability to created such a character. The best part
was when Jim and the group brought L.J.Silver on board with them on their
way back home. Devil within them! It was the best to see L.J.Silver putting
an angel's mask until they got home. Then he disappears, because he figured
that Jim was now mature enough that he cannot fool him anymore.
I personally think that it is a beautiful Chrisitan ending. Life on earth is just
an adventure, where we have to fight against evil spirit and learn to stand
on our own feet. Yet, when we are back to where we once belonged, evil will
no longer exist.
So, what is the 'treasure' they are after??