Kidnapped:

-Narrative process: There is a first-person narrator in the character of David Balfour who is the hero of \"Kidnapped\". He is reliable because he is fully involved in all the actions during the story.

-Characters:
David Balfour: David is representing lowland Scotland - mercantile , canny , Hanoverian and Whiggish, law-abiding and Presbyterian. He seems to be the conventionalized first-person narrator, the universal representative, the person for whom every reader could substitute himself. He is a rationalist, an endurer and a survivor. He never initiates action or ever consciously makes a decision. On the one hand he can be very unpleasant but on the other hand David shows a touchingly naive faith in the rule of law and an untouching belief in his own rectitude .
Mr. Campbell: he is the minister of Essendean,the place where Davie lived, and a very close friend of his dead father. Before David leaves his home he gives him a few presents, his father´s will and also good advices on the journey.
Mr. Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws: He is David´s uncle and a very rich, greedy old man who was liked by none of his neighbours or folks.
When David came to his house he wanted to get him away as fast as he arrived there. He even tried to kill his nephew. After that they went on a journey to the \"Queens Ferry\" and on this journey the evil side of his uncle turned up again and he wanted to kidnapp the young man.+
Alan \'Breck\' Stewart: His character is in contrast of David´s. He is feudal, romantic, proud to a fault, a lover of lost causes, Jacobite. He is lost between a feudal system where the masters have deserted, or are about to betray, their people and a square society for which he is unequipped and has, in any case, little taste. It is easy to draw at the mistakes of his character - vainglorious to an extreme, sentimental, cussedly out of touch with historical reality. He becomes a real good friend of David.


-Plot:
The adventure story \"Kidnapped\" is about the young Lowlander David Balfour who leaves his home after his father´s death to look for his uncle. As he finds him the uncle is not pleased with the arrival of young David and wants to get rid of him by using unfair methods like attempted murder or kidnapping.
He kidnapped him on a ferry where other people were captured as well and with another prsoner he tries to escape and they have done it. The other prisoner is Alan \'Breck\' Stewart a Highlander who fought for his culture and for his family.
After the fights on the ship they get shipwrecked and David and Alan have lost eachother. After a struggle of life and a few hard actions for both of them they find eachother in moment where a King´s servant was murderered. The murderer escaped very fast and of course the two friends were blamed for the case.
Both fled through the Highlands of the King´s soldiers.
After two months they passed the forth and then he wantes to look for Mr. Rankeillor who could have give him his property, namely the kingdom of the Balfours of Shaw.

-Time span:
The story starts in June 1751 and end son August the 24th. Time seems to be expanded because everything is described very detailed. If there wouldn´t be any date you would think that the actions were happening ina year or more.


-Space:
Everything starts in Essendean where David, his parents and the minister and his wife live. Then young Balfour goes to Cramond which is near by Edinburgh. There he gets kidnapped and arrives shirwrecked on the south end of the Isle of Mull. From there he goes through the Highland to Mr. Rankeillor in Queensferry and then back to Edinburgh.
The settings change very fast and it is often very confusing because of the difficult Scottish names. But with a map of Scotland you can easily find the which Alan and David went.


-Language:
Also The Language is often very confusing. British English and also Gaelic are mixed up and if you want the translation of the Gaelic expressions you loose the flow of reading.
Regional expressions are used very frequently and it is complex to read.


-Symbolism:
\"Kidnapped\" is in some ways a national epic of the conflicting forces of \"the dour and rational\" against the \"adventurous and romantic\" in post-Union Scotland. The book shows perfectly the differences between Highlander and Lowlander and also their conflicts.

If someone reads the book it would be better to have some background information of the most important historical actions and also a map would be helpful.
The book offered me a gripping journey through Scotland where I learned more about the mentality of the Scots.