Character List Jim Hawkins:The young boy is the narrator of the adventure that is told in Treasure Island. ... The only female in the book appears at the beginning of Treasure Island. ... Besides other things there is a map of Captain John Flint's treasure island. ... I have just finished writting down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, keeping nothing back, but the bearings of the island. ... Every day I thank God for the opportunity to visit Treasure Island. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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