ENGL 216 Lecture 21: Stevenson 2 and Treasure Island
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Constantly both traveling and moving trying to find a place that would be ideal for his health. Ultimately ended up getting married to a woman who had a child. At the time that he died he was one of the two most popular authors of the time. Pirates and plat: practice for running the empire. Did not like how much he saw misrule in other foreign governments or leaders. Colonial rule was not the highest pinnacle of human judgement. Wyss, the swiss family robinson (1712: m. ballantyne, the coral island. Everyone wants to be a pirate as a child, but they just want the idea of freedom and escape from rules, they don"t want any of the negative experiences or actions associated with it. Adventure and imagination was characterized as a "boy thing" at this time, whereas now it is considered to be a characteristic of both girls and boys.
