Piracy and “Treasure Island”

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a really good story called “Treasure Island” which gives us a different view of pirates vs what we see in movies such as “Pirates of the Caribbean”. Long John Silver is “cunning, sly, peg-legged, with a parrot on his shoulder.” (shmoop.com). He is what we imagine a pirate would look like, he is the embodiment of this look. Though, this is not necessarily what you would always see. There were infarct people whom were contracted by Great Britain to raid cargo boats heading to trade with an enemy, they were called privateers. In “Pirates of the Caribbean” we are given Captain Jack Sparrow, who is a drunk, mostly incompetent, and staged a coup with the help of some of his mates before. In “Treasure Island” we see that Long John Silver betrays his mates, and grabbed the gold for himself and Jim, along with the other guy. Jack Sparrow did not betray his men, but he tried sometimes.

https://www.shmoop.com/treasure-island-book/long-john-silver.html