Treasure island:

-Narrative process: During the whole book Jim Hawkins is the narrator of the adventures on Treasure Island, except Doctor Livesey´s narrative from the chapters XVI to XVIII. The young narrator enables the boy-reader to become involved in those crucial experiences of "fear and danger" by which the author set such store. He has been asked by the Squire and the Doctor to provide a record of all that had happened, to keep nothing back but the exact location of the Island, all the treasure not having been lifted. He is trusted to provide a reliable report: this trust that the adult world places in the narrator is, as has been pointed out, part of the boy-reader´s day- dream.
Jim as a narrator has two apparently paradoxical attitudes to his own story: on the one hand he thought that the journey to seek for buried treasure would be a delightful dream but on the other hand he wrote that in all his fancies nothing has occured to him so strange and tragic as their actual adventures.
Jim´s viewpoint varies between two poles: at one time, he is the hero of his own dream, a good day-dream of a quest for treasure; at another he is the narrator of a strange and tragic story.

-Characters:
Jim Hawkins: He both as boy-within-the-story and as narrator of the tale in retrospect, became the hero of his own text. The adult characters relied on him and were right to do so. His heroic role was summed up in the Doctor´s comment: "Every step, it´s you that saves our lives!" But ultimately the dream had to end: as Captain Smollett said that Jim was too much the born favourite for them to go to sea again together . The young Jim Hawkins had to grow up, but, before this came to be, he was a "sharer in the alarms" of the story and of its characters.
Jim´s neutrality means that he was effective as the type of narrator who allowed a maximum concentration on the incidents of the author´s romance.
When young Hawkins came to Bristol with his experience of Black Dog and Blind Pew he thought that he knew what a buccaneer was like - a very different creature, according to him, from this clean and pleasant-tempered landlord.
J. Hawkins´ parents: His Father kept the \"Admiral Benbow\" inn in Bristol. The inn had very little company so it was very quiet. He was very ill and died shortly after the arrival of Billy Bones.
The Mother was a very kind woman. She cooked the food for the inn, which tasted delicious. When the Father was ill she nursed him and still kept the inn open. She thought of herself that she would be an honest woman but once (when they got the money which Billy Bones owed the Father out of his room) Jim blamed her for her honesty but also for her greed, for her past foolhardness and present weakness.
Dr. Livesey: He was the doctor of Jim´s Father. When Billy Bones fell down after the fight with Black Dog he helped the \"Captain\".
He was not a doctor only but also a magistrate and in this duties he was respected by everyone, especially by Billy Bones and other shady figures.
From chapter XVI to chapter XVIII the narrative is continued by the doctor. This part of the book is brisk, lively and rather bluffly dismissive about the facts of death and violence. The doctor had a low opinion of pirates. He was a good friend of ...
Squire John Trelawney: Looked for a ship in Bristol to go and search for the treasure and found the Hispaniola. As he stood on the dock he started talking to an old sailor, who kept a public house and knew all seafaring men in Bristol. This man wanted a job as a seacook. His name was Long John Silver and this man helped him to get other men to go to sea with them. He was initially prepared to trust...
Long John Silver : He had a banker´s account which had never been overdrawn and he was a man of substance. He had lost one leg and he left his wife to manage the public house. On the journey to \"Treasure Island\" he was the sea cook of the crew.
Captain Smollett: He is the lesser figure in Treasure Island, who clings to the conventions of a rigid morality and a narrow realism, a scheme in which he believes that the Author is firmly on the side of the good. The Captain held tenaciously to his position in the fable.
He was a sharp-looking man who seemed angry with everything on board and was soon to tell them why. He didn´t like that cruise, he didn´t like the men on board and he didn´t like his officer. He had a bit of feeling what the seamen were like. He was responsible for the ship´s safety and everymen´slife. Dr. Livesey thought that he has been a very honest men.He has put doubts about Long John Silver.

-Plot:
The novel \"Treasure Island\" is about a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who finds a map of a treasure island in a room of one of their guests who didn´t pay. Dr. Livesey, Squire Trelawney, Tom Redruth and Jim went to Bristol to get a crew and a ship for the journey. After they had found it they went to sea. The crew was full of rough buccaneers and pirates. One of them was Long John Silver. He was the sea cook but he seemed to lead the group.
One day young Hawkins listened to a discussion between Silver and one of his mate. They said that they wanted to overtake the ship as soon as they reached the island. Of course Jim told it Dr. Livesey and so they were prepared for the attack just in front of the island. But the pirates were better than the gentlemen and they were all arrested except Jim who could escape. On the island he found shipwrecked Ben Gunn who helped him to fool the bad crew and there was a big fight on the island where a few people died. At the end even Long John Silver helped them to seek for the treasure and after they had found it they went back on their boat and wanted to go home again. They arrived at the port of Spanish America and were happy to be on the country again.

-Time:
Robert Louis Stevenson´s first novel \"Treasure Island\" was started in August 1881 when he found a map drawn by his 12-year-old stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, just to Lloyd´s amusement. During late August and September 15 chapters were written at the rate of each day, the remainder of the text completed at Davos later in 1881. It was published in 1883.
The time span is about four weeks but the time is compressed because everything is happening so fast.

-Space:
There are several settings and places. First it all starts at the \"Admiral Benbow\" inn of Jim Hawkins´ parents. There they find the map and also a lot of money. After that they change the setting to Dr. Livesey´s house to show him the map and to ask what they should do.
After their decision to seek for the treasure they go to Bristol to look for a boat and also a crew to help the gentlemen.
Most of the action happens on \"Treasure Island\" until the final chapter when they ship back home and arrive at a port of Spanish America.


-Language:
The use of non-standard language is a recurrent problem in children´s or juvenile fiction. Stevenson, as a Scots writer, was to come up against it. In certain cases he makes the speech of his characters more colloquial and less standard than in the serialization if the novel. But this is not so with Long John Silver: when it comes to rewrite his speech Stevenson makes him more refined and genteel.
Traditionally in the 19th century children´s fiction non-standard language is a sign of a bad character or the language of one who is a periphal actor in the story.
Two linguistic points are important in terms of texture of the narrative in \"Treasure Island\". First, Silver´s more standard speech singles him out from the rest of the pirates and mutineers. It makes him not only appear better educated than them but also more complex morally; and this affects both the reader´s and Jim´s apprehension of him.
Second, it makes those occasions when he does use non-standard speech more empathic.
The pattern of standard and non-standard speech in the text makes a difference between the pirates and the faithful party. The non-standard speech becomes the mark of \"illegality\".
Linked to the textual contrast between legal, standard English and non-standard pirates´ speech, are the amendments the author made to Dr. Livesey´s narrative.
This is more lively, brisk and rather bluffly dismissive about the facts of death and violence.

-Symbolism:
The most characteristic leitmotif is that there are two different characters in all of us: the good and the evil. The best example is Long John Silver: first he seems to be rough and untouchable seacook who just wants the treasure and the money. But in the course of the action he starts to be freindly and understanding.
Nevertheless, he wanted to show his mates that he is a strong and rough pirate.
At the end there is a real friendship between Jim and Silver.

For me it was a thrilling book especially at the end when Jim and the gentlemen fought against the other buccaneers. Nevertheless, I think that it is a book for men to make one feel a boy again but also that it is a good report of a frightening journey.