PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The antagonist
long John Silver,
"I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance; i know of my own knowledge that he has a banker's account, which has never been overdrawn. he leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of color, a pair of old bachelors like you and i may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving" (stevenson 518).
Stevenson states, "You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel. Meantime, he ran on, little supposing he was overheard" (530).
"The sea-cook had not gone empty-handed. He had cut through a bulkhead unobserved and had removed one of the sacks of coin, worth perhaps three or four hundred guineas, to help him on his further wanderings" (Stevenson 606).
Can you think of other statements throughout Treasure Island that describe Silver's villainous characteristics?
works cited
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. "TREASURE ISLAND." CLASSIBS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. 6TH ED. JOHN W. GRIFFITH AND CHARLES H. FREY. UPPER SADDLE RIVER. N.J: PEARSON PRENTICE HALL, 2005. 496-606, PRINT.
